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Revision as of 15:49, 12 April 2025

Mayhem promotional concerts
Promotional tour by Lady Gaga
Various promotional posters for the concerts
Location
  • Brazil
  • North America
  • Singapore
Associated albumMayhem
Start dateApril 11, 2025 (2025-04-11)
End dateMay 24, 2025 (2025-05-24)
No. of shows9
Lady Gaga concert chronology

American singer Lady Gaga is set to perform a series of promotional concerts in 2025, that precede the Mayhem Ball, in support of her eighth studio album, Mayhem (2025). She will headline the Coachella music festival on April 11 and 18. This is followed by performances in Mexico, Brazil, and Singapore - her first shows in these countries since the Born This Way Ball tour in 2012. The Rio de Janeiro concert, which will be free to attend and will be broadcast live, is expected to attract over 1.5 million people, making the largest performance of Gaga's career.

Background and development

See also: Coachella 2025

Lady Gaga first headlined Coachella in 2017 as a last-minute replacement for Beyoncé, who stepped down due to her pregnancy.[1] In November 2024, Gaga announced through her social media her return to the festival in 2025. Describing it as "a massive night of chaos in the desert", she explained that she had a vision for Coachella that she couldn't fully bring to life before due to circumstances with timing, but now she's ready to make it happen for music fans.[2] In the days leading up to the event, Gaga told Rolling Stone that she had worked with choreographer Parris Goebel on a “very special” performance, crafted “moment by moment,” while choosing not to reveal further details.[3] Prior the festival, her performance had been teased as "Mayhem in the Desert".[4]

Two concerts to be held in Mexico City were hinted during the Brazilian press conference on February 21, 2025, indicating that Gaga would be offering "a couple of stadium shows between her appearances at Coachella and Copacabana".[5] The official announcement was released on March 3, with the event being dubbed as "Long Live Mayhem" and slated to take place on April 26 at Estadio GNP Seguros.[6]

Gaga is set to perform a free concert on May 3, 2025, at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[7] She announced the event with the moniker "Mayhem on the Beach" on February 21, 2025, through her social media. Her statement coincided with a press conference at the Prio Theater in Rio de Janeiro, where the event’s production company, Bonus Track, confirmed its organization as part of the Todo Mundo no Rio initiative, in collaboration with the city government and the state administration.[8] She last visited the country as part of the Born This Way Ball tour in 2012, which included shows in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Porto Alegre.[9][10] She was originally scheduled to headline the Rock in Rio festival in September 2017, but had to cancel due to severe pain caused by fibromyalgia, the same condition that ultimately forced her to end the Joanne World Tour later that year.[11][12] At the time, she stated on social media: "Brazil, I'm devastated that I'm not well enough to go to Rock in Rio."[7] Attendance for the 2025 concert is expected to exceed 1.5 million people, making it one of the largest events of her career.[13]

Gaga is performing four dates in Singapore’s National Stadium (pictured), her only concerts in Asia in 2025.

On March 10, Gaga announced on Instagram that she will be performing four shows at Singapore National Stadium. This followed media speculation that Singapore would be the exclusive Southeast Asian host for Gaga's "largest world tour in her career".[14][15] The concerts, dubbed "Lion City Mayhem", will be Gaga's only shows in Asia in 2025.[16]

Economic impact

Rio de Janeiro's mayor, Eduardo Paes, emphasized the positive impact of the Brazil concert, stating that "it helps build our identity."[17][18] He also noted that large-scale concerts at Copacabana Beach have historically generated significant economic benefits, citing performances by Jorge Ben (1993), Rod Stewart (1994), the Rolling Stones (A Bigger Bang Tour, 2006), and Madonna (the Celebration Tour, 2024).[17]

Kallang Alive Sport Management (KASM), a government-backed entity, played a key role in organizing Lady Gaga's concerts in Singapore. Unlike Taylor Swift's the Eras Tour (2024), which had a similar Southeast Asia exclusivity deal, the Singapore Tourism Board confirmed no government grants were provided for Gaga’s shows.[19][20] The concerts align with Singapore’s strategy to attract tourism through high-revenue music events, and are expected to bring significant economic impact.[21] The country's flag carrier, Singapore Airlines, is anticipating higher first-quarter earnings due to increased travel from concert attendees.[22]

Critical response

Coachella

Consequence opined that Gaga brought "her dynamic performance style to the desert in a characteristically engaging, highly-choreographed headlining set that already already ranks among the best in the festival's 25-plus year history." The publication's Paolo Ragusa compared it favorably to Beyoncé's 2018 Coachella set, and felt the concert "demonstrated that Lady Gaga is an unparalleled theatrical performer, with a strong catalogue and insistence on pushing her live sets to absurd levels of precision and intensity".[23] Variety's Chris Willman praised the concert for Gaga's vocal skills, the costumes, and the visuals, calling it "equal parts bizarro and sentimental".[24] Rolling Stone's Tomás Mier found Gaga’s storytelling throughout the show "transformative, and a spectacle that cemented her status as a once-in-a-lifetime pop icon."[25] Lyndsey Havens of Billboard complimented the narrative, saying "the two-hour show may have been disguised as a concert, but what took place was nothing short of a carefully crafted commentary on fame and performance – and the toll of keeping both up".[4] Adrian Horton of The Guardian rated it with the maximum 5 stars, calling it "a fully realized vision of a pop master, a testament to years of hard-earned experience at the highest level, and a banger dance party with production and delivery in a league above her peers."[26]

Set list

This set list is from the April 11, 2025, concert at Coachella.[27] It may not represent all concerts.

Act I: Of Velvet and Vice

  1. "Bloody Mary"
  2. "Abracadabra"
  3. "Judas"
  4. "Scheiße"
  5. "Garden of Eden"
  6. "Poker Face"

Act II: And She Fell Into a Gothic Dream

  2. "Perfect Celebrity"
  3. "Disease"
  4. "Paparazzi"
  5. "Alejandro"
  6. "The Beast"

Act III: The Beautiful Nightmare That Knows Her Name

  2. "Killah" (with Gesaffelstein)[25]
  3. "Zombieboy"
  4. "Die with a Smile"
  5. "How Bad Do U Want Me" (followed by an interlude of "Abracadabra (Gesaffelstein remix)")

Act IV: To Wake Her Is to Lose Her

  2. "Shadow of a Man"
  3. "Kill for Love"
  4. "Born This Way"
  5. "Shallow"
  6. "Vanish Into You"

Finale: Eternal Aria of the Monster Heart

  2. "Bad Romance"

Broadcast

Gaga's Rio show — which is scheduled to run from 9:00 PM to 11:30 PM BRT — will be broadcast live on TV and the internet.[28]

Concert dates

List of 2025 concerts
Date (2025) City Country Venue Attendance Revenue
April 11[a] Coachella United States Empire Polo Club — —
April 18[a]
April 26 Mexico City Mexico Estadio GNP Seguros
April 27
May 3[b] Rio de Janeiro Brazil Copacabana Beach
May 18 Singapore Singapore National Stadium
May 19
May 21
May 24

Notes

  1. ^ a b The concerts on April 11 and 18, 2025, at the Empire Polo Club in Indio are part of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
  2. ^ The concert in Rio de Janeiro on May 3, 2025, is a free access show.

See also

References

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  2. ^ Kaufman, Gil (November 21, 2024). "Lady Gaga Looking Forward to Creating a 'Night of Chaos' at 2025 Coachella Festival". Billboard. Retrieved March 21, 2025.
  3. ^ Mier, Tomás (April 8, 2025). "Lady Gaga Can't Wait to Play This 'Mayhem' Song at Coachella: It 'Just Pops Off'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved April 8, 2025.
  4. ^ a b Havens, Lyndsey (April 12, 2025). "Lady Gaga's Coachella Headlining Set Was a Genius Commentary On Fame". Billboard. Archived from the original on April 12, 2025. Retrieved April 12, 2025.
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