Lady Gaga Turns Coachella Into ‘Gagachella’ With 2-Hour Show

lady gaga I returned her victory Coachella On Friday night, the 2025 festival saw the 2025 festival with a career-spanning performance that thrived fans and celebrated her legacy in pop culture.

The 39-year-old musical icon began a nearly two-hour set in Indio, California with “Bloody Mary” on his 2011 album Born The Way, and launched an emotional medley of fan favorites, including the era that defines “Abracadabra,” “Judas,” and “Poker Face.”

Reaction from Lady Gaga’s little monster? Applause and cheers of joy echoing across the desert.

From the start, Gaga signaled that this wasn’t just the biggest hit, as it was layered with her most iconic visuals and references to the moment.

During “Paparazzi”, she took home the metal crutches seen in the 2009 music video, and for “bad romance”, she lay theatrically beside the skeleton, with the dancers wearing the original appearance of white crown.

“Lady Gaga was absolutely outperforming herself,” one user wrote on X, a social media platform previously known as Twitter, after seeing the performance. “It was the most incredible, artistic, theatrical performance of her career. She’s what you call an artist.”

“There will never be another Lady Gaga,” another person said. “This is everything I want.”

All night, Gaga continued to fuse the old and the new, continuing to debut tracks, including his seventh studio album, Mayhem, Illness and Killer. The latter featured a special appearance from producer Gesaffelstein. Gasaffelstein collaborated with Gaga on The Track.

“I love that record,” she said. uproxx Before the show. “That’s a feature of Gesaffelstein. It’s very confident, super funky, very unique and cool.”

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Fans also clearly loved it as praise was poured into social media. One little monster says, “Amazing! Lady Gaga really outperformed herself in this show!”

“Lady Gaga… you may have shot that number one spot for the best Coachella performance of all time,” declared another.

Teasing the show in advance, Gaga promised that there would be “Mayhem in the Desert,” but initially enveloped the details.

“I don’t want to give anything about Coachella,” she told Uproxx. “I know it’s my heartlessness in a way, but I was able to honestly cry on the phone, thinking how excited I was to do this show, and I want it to be totally surprising.

This year marks Gaga’s second mark, leading the main stage at Coachella. She previously had a headline in 2017 and intervened with just two weeks of notice Beyonce It was cancelled due to pregnancy with twins Rumi and Sir.

“As doctors advise us to maintain a more rigorous schedule in the coming months, Beyoncé has decided to refrain from performing at the 2017 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival,” said the “Texas Holding” singer.

Despite the short preparation window, Gaga performed outstanding shows that year, including hits such as “Poker Face”, “Telephone”, “Treatment”, and “Bad Romance”.

She also made a massive announcement using the festival weekend 2. Her role in “A Star Is Born” was the first time fans saw the film production. On stage, she is truly grateful to her co-stars and directors. Bradley Cooper.

That 2017 performance also included a deep emotional acoustic production of “Edge of Glory” dedicated to his then-cancer-fighting friend Sonja.

“I’ve been lucky enough to be truly successful since my last performance at Coachella,” Gaga reflected in her Uproxx interview, acknowledging her journey between then and now.

• “Bloody Mary”
• “Abracadabra”
• “Judas”
• “scheiße”
• “The Garden of Eden”
• “poker face”
• “The perfect celebrity”
• “disease”
• “Paparazzi”
• “Alejandro”
• “beast”
• “Killer” (with special guest Gesafelstein)
• “Zombie Boy”
• “Die with a smile”
• “How bad are you?”
• “The Man’s Shadow”
• “I was born like this.”
• “shallow”
• “I’ll disappear to you.”
• “bad romance”

If Lady Gaga’s performance is a preview of what Coachella 2025 is in store, it’s clear that fans are aiming for an unforgettable experience.