Girl Gaga closed out the primary evening of Coachella 2025, bringing her dynamic efficiency fashion to the desert in a characteristically partaking, highly-choreographed headlining set that already already ranks among the many finest within the pageant’s 25-plus 12 months historical past.
The 20-song set was divided into 5 acts: “Act I: Of Velvet and Vice,” “Act II: And She Fell Right into a Gothic Dream,” “Act III: The Lovely Nightmare That Is aware of Her Title,” “Act IV: To Wake Her Is to Lose Her,” and “Finale: Everlasting Aria of the Monster Coronary heart.” It started with a pre-recorded message voiced by two variations of herself, one wearing pink and one wearing white, who stated: “Her and I’ll discover a solution to dwell as twins, however I’ll know if in the long run mistress of mayhem wins.”
The efficiency was a strong embodiment of the duality that runs by means of Gaga’s newest album Mayhem. All through the set, Gaga frequently switched forwards and backwards between black and white appears to be like, reflecting the album’s exploration of inside battle and stability between mild and darkness. This theme was additional emphasised by the real-life chess board throughout “Poker Face,” the place Gaga battled herself in a recreation. At one other level, she immersed herself in a pit of skeletons throughout “Good Superstar.” As for the setlist, it primarily pulled from Mayhem, in addition to songs equivalent to “Judas,” “Paparazzi,” “Alejandro,” “Born This Method,” and “Shallow.”
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Right here’s what our Paolo Ragusa, on the bottom at Coachella, needed to say about Gaga’s headlining efficiency: “Mom Monster’s set was intentionally centered round her newest album, Mayhem, a career-spanning flip seemingly much less essential than the carnal drama of her present period. So far as Coachella headlining performances go, it’s troublesome to consider a performer apart from Beyoncé who has boasted such elaborate, cinematic actions. It was probably the most engrossing set of music potential, Gaga toying with scale in a manner that maximizes the heightened furor of her output — she screamed, heaved, and ached by means of the present’s hour and 45 minutes. It served as a terrific preview of her upcoming ‘Mayhem Ball,’ which seamlessly bridges the darkest modes of her artistry together with her excellent showmanship; the choreography was bewildering, and the units had been as elaborate as ever. Like a lot of her present work, the extent of element and bewildering execution demonstrated that Girl Gaga is an unparalleled theatrical performer, with a powerful catalogue and insistence on pushing her dwell units to absurd ranges of precision and depth. Briefly, she’s performed it once more — and it was probably the most spectacular shows of pop music within the pageant’s historical past.”
The Coachella look — which she’ll be reprising on the second week of the pageant with one other efficiency on April 18th — lands forward of her upcoming tour, “The Mayhem Ball.” The North American leg kicks off with a number of nights in Las Vegas following a string of exhibits in Mexico Metropolis, Rio de Janeiro, and Singapore. Get tickets right here.
woman gaga performing ‘poker face’ & simulating chess is ICONIC #coachella pic.twitter.com/XxGt8rqMHX
— ໊ (@smazos) April 12, 2025
I am gonna want Girl Gaga to launch a studio recording of that dramatic synth-heavy model of “Paparazzi.”
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— Jeff Michael (@ZeoVGM) April 12, 2025
Formally Girl Gaga’s efficiency at Coachella marked as THE BEST efficiency in HISTORY #Coachella2025 #Coachella pic.twitter.com/i1S9z0TgQU
— 𝐃𝐞𝐧 (@Invisblechains) April 12, 2025
LADY GAGA PERFORMING PERFECT CELEBRITY AT COACHELLA #GAGACHELLA pic.twitter.com/Tj2aPoHMZT
— tricon⚔️ (@hausofgagaicon) April 12, 2025
Girl Gaga’s Coachella 2025 Setlist:
Act I: Of Velvet and Vice
Bloody Mary
Abracadabra
Judas
Scheiße
Backyard of Eden
Poker Face
Abracadabra
Act II: And She Fell Right into a Gothic Dream
Good Superstar
Illness
Paparazzi
Alejandro
The Beast
Act III: The Lovely Nightmare That Is aware of Her Title
Killah (with Gesaffelstein)
Zombieboy
Die With a Smile
How Dangerous Do U Need Me
Act IV: To Wake Her Is to Lose Her
Shadow of a Man
Born This Method
Shallow (Girl Gaga & Bradley Cooper cowl)
Vanish Into You
Finale: Everlasting Aria of the Monster Coronary heart
Dangerous Romance
