Lady Gaga ignited Rio de Janeiro on Saturday May 3, during a free mega-concert for her comeback in Brazil since 2012. “Brazil, I missed you so much”shouted the American popstar before singing one of its greatest successes, Poker Face, On a monumental chessboard, one of the grandiose sets of this two -hour show.
The 39 -year -old singer, who brought together 2.1 million people, according to a tweet from the Rio prefecture, came on the scene with about twenty minutes late on the scheduled time, perched two meters high on the endless train of a scarlet dress which, by opening, revealed a vertical cage in which her dancers were hidden, Bloody Mary.Lady Gaga then chained with Abracadabra, One of the flagship titles of his latest album, Mayhemlaunched in March. In the middle of the song, she removed the red dress, revealing another that she wore below in the colors of Brazil: green, blue and yellow.
“I dried several days of lessons in college to come here, Lady Gaga is everything for me, I have been a fan of her since 2008”, said to AFP Walter Segundo, 23-year-old who arrived Tuesday from Sao Luis, in the Brazilian state of Maranhao (northeast), nearly 3,000 kilometers from Rio.
Throughout the week, the “little monsters” (Little monsters), affectionate nickname fans of the 39 -year -old American singer, flocked to the city famous for her carnival which attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists from around the world.
The town hall of Rio said on X that 2.1 million people attended the concert in Copacabana, more than the 1.6 million for that of Madonna in the same place a year ago, even if these figures were disputed by specialists who deemed them exaggerated.
Municipal authorities, who also hope for economic benefits of more than $ 100 million, wish to perpetuate this free mega-concert tradition in May, in order to stimulate tourism during a period considered low season. Mayor Eduardo Paes suggested that he intended to bring in the Irish rock group U2, without specifying a date.
-For the Lady Gaga concert on Saturday, an impressive security device was deployed, with more than 5,000 agents, drones and video surveillance cameras with facial recognition.
The interpreter of Bad Romance was supposed to be one of the headliners of the Rock In Rio festival in 2017 but was forced to cancel at the last minute for health reasons, which she did not fail to recall on Saturday. “You expected me, you must have asked you why I took so long to come back but I was healing, regaining strength (…) Now, I’m ready and I’m going to give everything for you”, She said, moved to tears, during a speech in the middle of the concert.
“Tonight we write the story”, she launched, while the public Gaga, I love you (Gaga, I love you in Portuguese).
And before Born this waythe Pop diva wanted to greet “The LGBTQ community in Brazil”, within which it has a large number of fans. This title is the favorite of Alan Jones, who came from the State of Santa Catarina (South), inspiring a drawing which he was tattooed on the left arm. “It was thanks to this song that I started to accept myself as I am “, says this hairdresser who will celebrate her 30th birthday next week.
“The last time I came here, we were friends, but now we are from the same family”, Summary Lady Gaga, sitting on the piano before singing at the end of the concert Shallowla ballad you movie A Star is bornin which she was playing with Bradley Cooper.
And after the recall, the fans continued to sing for long minutes in cappella the refrain of Bad Romance.
