I want to have a clear schedule of the dimensions for each venue so that we can properly execute all the technology and visuals.
I'm not restricted to a certain structure for my show anymore. This is going to be, like, the ultimate creative orgasm for me 'cause I'm ready to move on. What's fantastic about was I was able to plan it while I was on another tour that was on a much smaller scale, opening for the Dolls. "I am so mental and sleepless and excited for this tour, This is so different than anything you've seen from me in the past year. Gaga prepared three versions of her show to cater to different sizes of the venues she played. Gaga opening the show by performing " Paparazzi" And, yeah, I'm paying a lot for it - out of my own pocket. I want so much to make every depression dollar that everyone spends on my show worth it. I'm on the phone every minute of every day, talking to people, being creative, planning this Ball, and my tour manager is constantly saying, 'Come on, we have to go, we've got to go right now,' But to me, the Ball is so important. It's going to be as if you're walking into New York circa 1974: There's an art installation in the lobby, a DJ spinning your favorite records in the main room, and then the most haunting performance that you've ever seen on the stage. And when it's all over, everyone's going to press rewind and relive it again. I want it to be an entire experience from minute you walk in front door to minute I begin to sing. "It's not really a tour, it's more of a traveling party. In an interview with MTV News, she described the tour as, And it's all coming together, and it's going to be traveling museum show." Gaga started planning for the show while on the tour with The Pussycat Dolls. Gaga stated, "I consider what I do to be more of an Andy Warhol concept: pop performance art, multimedia, fashion, technology, video, film. It was her first headlining tour she has previously served as opening act for New Kids on the Block's New Kids on the Block: Live tour, as well as The Pussycat Dolls' Doll Domination Tour. The tour was officially announced on January 12, 2009, through Gaga's official Myspace page.
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The show has received critical acclaim with critics complimenting her vocal clarity and fashion sense as well as her ability to pull off theatrics like a professional artist.
An alternate set list with minor changes were performed after the first North American leg of the tour. Gaga appeared on the stage in new costumes including an innovative dress made entirely of bubbles and premiered an unreleased song called "Future Love". The set list consisted of songs from her debut album only. The show consisted of four segments, with each segment being followed by a video interlude to the next segment, and it ended with an encore.
Alternate versions of the show with minimal variations were planned by Gaga to accommodate different venues. Tickets were distributed for charity also. Gaga described the tour as a traveling museum show incorporating artist Andy Warhol's pop-performance art concept. Dates in Asia soon followed, as well as two performances at England's V Festival and two shows in North America that had been postponed from April. North American shows began in March, followed by dates in Oceania and a solo trek through Europe. The Fame Ball Tour was the debut concert tour by American singer Lady Gaga, in support of her debut studio album The Fame (2008). Fame Kills: Starring Kanye West and Lady Gaga.