UPDATE: I was just reading this online at the Times of London from Caitlin Moran and it really sums it up for me ...
In the18 years I’ve been going to the festival I have never seen an act arrive there so magnificently or so confidently impose its own agenda — sex, neurosis, fetish, heels, clubbing, fashion — on such an ostensibly unpromising setting. Just to remind you — there is a field of cows some 800 yards to our right. The principal exports of this location are hay and cheese. And yet Gaga is making Glastonbury feel like a club in New York at 3am. You can practically hear the sirens outside and taste the amyl nitrate. I start to worry about the possibility of getting a cab back over the bridge, to Brooklyn.
Exactly!!!
True story ... I was sitting watching whatever yesterday when a promo for the Grammys came on and I thought to myself, "I wonder what Gaga has in store for us?"
(I know, I know, she says, "Don't call me Gaga," but I think that's just for the guy who ate her heart in the song Monster. After all, she let Oprah call her Gaga, she let Toure at Fuse call her Gaga, I think she'd be okay if I did.)
I have never had a thought like that about a musical performance before, not about Madonna, not about Cher, not about (fill in name of gay icon).
Gaga makes me think about what she'll do, not just what song she'll do.
But I do hope she does Monster, I love the lyrics:
We French-kissed on a subway train
He tore my clothes right off
He ate my heart and then he ate my brain
And I love the kind of disco calliope sound it has. Really chugs along, and it's not a high bpm track which makes dancing on your ass while driving easier.
No video for the song yet, I'm hoping for a somewhat literal translation of the song with a subway platform and New York City on a Summer night after the rain has cleared the streets ... that's what the song makes me think of, the Sundays evenings walking back from The Eagle or The Spike or The Ramrod after a rain to my place on 15th St.
I don't mean the Gaga Grammys in terms of number of awards won but in terms of impact. She has to be the hottest act on tour right now and the show, from what I've seen online is fantastic.
Please HBO, please shoot the last stop of the European tour for broadcast, please! Because some of us older gays don't have anyone to go to concerts with.
Grammys start at 8 eastern on Sunday on CBS.
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