NEW YORK CITY: Multi-platinum selling diva Lady Gaga electrified several thousand handpicked groupies with a live performance at the Brooklyn docks, kicking off the global release yesterday of her third album.
Strutting and writhing across the stage dressed in a white leotard and white whig, Gaga late on Sunday performed tracks from her new album “Artpop”, launched in collaboration with US artist Jeff Koons. The crowd was as eclectic as they were die-hard Gaga fans, mobbing her with cell phone cameras and dancing madly.
“Artpop” signals a return to the limelight for Stefani Germanotta, the 27-year-old privately educated New Yorker best known as Lady Gaga, after she was forced to tone down her wall-to-wall engagements to undergo hip surgery.
She has collaborated with several world famous contemporary artists, including Koons, who portrayed her as a post-modern Botticellian Venus for the album artwork. “Artpop” is a return to the danceable synthpop of Gaga’s massively successful 2008 debut album “The Fame” after she experimented with other styles on her second album, “Born This Way”.
Before assembled journalists Gaga took off in a custom-made flying dress to proclaim a new cultural revolution. She strapped into the fly suit and buckled her helmet wearing a cut-out black leotard and knee-high sparkly white stiletto boots. She then took off and propelled through the air.
Gaga called the battery-operated flying dress Volantis, and an “early prototype” for what she said could be a new dawn in travel. She presented the device as part philosophy, part science, and part metaphor for herself, but was vague on what use it could ever have.
AFP
