Lady Gaga: Chromatica Ball tour review – latest rebirth might be her greatest-Emma Madden-Entertainment – Metro

Lady Gaga wowed as ever at her Chromatica Ball show in London (Picture: Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

From meat dress Gaga to Oscar-nominated ingenue Gaga; glam rock Gaga to balladeering Gaga — no modern popstar has mastered the art of rebirth quite like Lady Gaga.

At Tottenham Hotspur Stadium this weekend, over the course of the Chromatica Ball (her sixth headline tour in support of her sixth solo album Chromatica) we watched as she rebirthed the entire planet.

Across five acts and a perfectly pandering setlist — she began with her three biggest hits: Bad Romance, Poker Face, Just Dance — Gaga presented a cinematic spectacle that wouldn’t have looked out of place in an episode of Twin Peaks.

At first brutalist and post-apocalyptic, the experimental visuals depicted whizzing atoms and particles, forming the creation of this new planet, while Gaga emerged on stage in an industrial sarcophagus, unmoving.

Song by song and limb by limb, she quite literally came out of her shell — and by the time she was seven costume changes in, she was dancing across the stage like she was out for blood.

Whether in tight unison with her fleet of dancers, or solo at her piano performing handstands from her seat, the Chromatica Ball was a celebration of the body.

The set mixed old favourites such as Just Dance and Poker Face with new hits from her latest album (Picture: Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

Lady Gaga underwent seven costume changes (Picture: Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

Gaga has always attempted to turn her pain into power; her trauma into triumph — and that’s exactly what the Chromatica Ball did. Her struggles with fibromyalgia are well known; in 2018, she had to cancel a large portion of her tour because of the chronic condition.

Last night felt like an attempt to put the audience in Gaga’s body, as it gradually broke free of pain.

The effect felt transcendently cathartic, Gaga’s greatest rebirth yet.

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