Going by the disorder at the Lady Gaga press conference, it should have been no surprise that Metallica — the other big international act in Delhi for F1 — pushed back their performance by a day.
Going by the disorder at the Lady Gaga press con (PC), it should have been no surprise that Metallica — the other big international act in Delhi for F1 — pushed back their performance by a day. Unruly crowds were the showstoppers.
Metallica fan, Akshat Sharma, 15, whose shirt got ripped in the ruckus is “pissed off at the organisers”, who claimed technical glitches for the cancellation. This angered fans. The crowds broke barricades, started to throw bottles on stage, broke equipment and started abusing.
In comparison, the Gaga PC may not have been as chaotic but there was enough jostling and noise. One ‘key takeaway’ from the Gaga PC was the PC with a “restricted media entry”, beside some idiotic questions from journalists: Hi Gaga, does the globalisation of contemporary music influence your art? Gaga: No.
Each time Gaga paused and her shiny blue talons wrapped around the coffee/tea cup and she took a sip, the front row vultures went mad, the sound of cameras palpable, urgent.
To her credit, and after the initial mania of flashbulbs, she took off her shades.
Despite the tramp-esque questions, Lady - if we were to assume first name familiarity with the pop phenomenon (also of 44 million likes on Facebook fame) - really did look lovely, if a little tired around her eyes. With her none-too-subtle hair colour, a light saffron-green tribute to Bharat Mata, she cooed all the right things: about loving being here, about having modernised Indian influences in her own way, expressing gratitude for the support and blessings of her amazing new fans, etc etc. She seemed relaxed, and took time to pick her words.
She said she was like anyone else trying to make her parents proud. She said she loved Osho - “I’m kind of an Indian hippy”.
She invoked Andy Warhol: “make it beautiful but do as much as you can to get away with”. She said if she had to do a few classic covers, and she took her time answering this, John Lennon’s Imagine would be right on top. (Also some Opera, the Boss, Springsteen -Thunder Road). Almost everything she said was quotable, some things even in a perhaps borderline hallucinogenic kind of way. “Performance art is my life... and the idea is to create a fantasy that is so great that when we’re together it feels real...”
We’ll have to wait for the concert Sunday to see what she means.
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