Lollapalooza Weekend in Chicago was August 6th-8th. Katie got 2 VIP tickets and chose to give them to me... in turn I chose to bring Amanda to the big event. BASICALLY, we went for one and only ONE reason, and it was to see LaDy GaGa! Now, I wouldn't call myself a huge Gaga fan but I was super pumped to see her. Lolla is really not my kind of venue. I much rather have a seat and air conditioning and the use of flush toilets... rather than standing in a muddy field surrounded by hot, drunk, cigarette/pot smoking people. But I couldn't pass up this opportunity of course.
When we first got there we made our way backstage. This was super exciting as I have never been backstage to anything before. There was alcohol and food, and wouldn't you know it, bathrooms, clean ones!!! We saw Gaga's wigs get wheeled by, as well as her wardrobe. Even though most of the show she is prancing around in her underwear. We put on our puppy dog faces and stood with the body guards trying to get a glimpse of her, and hoping they'd take some pity on us and introduce us to her. That did not happen, but we did get to see her thru a small opening of a door. It counts. And she was normal as could be which was interesting to see. We got to see all of her back up dancers, and a lot of men that looked like women and lot of women that looked like men.
There was really no particular area for us VIP'ers to stand. Apparently we were not as VIP as others because we didn't get to the super front and center... but that's ok. After multiple attempts to try and sneak in front and center, a guy with a mullet kept kicking us out. We ended up going back into the crowd of 80,000 or so and stood far left of the stage. As I fended off all the drunks, getting beer spilled on me every time I turned around... Amanda was a dancing fool. I danced to the songs I knew.
"Less time being wasted... more GAGA." -Amanda-
She played for 2 hours. And it was amazing. People tend to have mixed feelings about Gaga. You love her or you hate her. I think she is brilliant. She's young and she's smart and she makes a lot of money screaming out words that don't make much sense, but people pay to see. Yes, she's strange. But who cares if you remember her. She is very much into Equal Rights for everyone... and Jesus loves everyone... and people made fun of me in high school... but look at me now... Why she has a bleeding crucifix on stage still baffles me, it's all positive, until that point... I can see why people can be turned off by that. I was. But then she played Poker Face and I forgot about it.
Some quotes of the night from the lady that made me chuckle:
"Hello, my little monsters... I'm LADDDDDYYYY GAGGGGGGAAAAA!!!
"Hi Dad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" "Look, I'm famous DAD!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Dance, mother f*ckers, DANCE!!!"
"I know you all know this little sing a long!" -and then she sang Telephone... so excited!
"I love Tommy because Tommy loves American girls... and I also love Tommy because Tommy loves American boyyyyyyyysssssssss!"
"Jesus is pretty popular... he might actually be those most popular man there ever was!
We had a great time though... and we thank Katie for Paloozing us.... We were so happy attending the Monster Ball!!!
