Lady Gaga Plans To Battle Her 'Monsters' During Monster Ball Tour

'It's part pop, part performance art, part fashion installation,' she tells MTV News of upcoming shows. By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Sway Calloway Lady Gaga Photo: Christopher Polk/ Getty Images Lady Gaga has been describing her forthcoming Monster Ball Tour as an electro-pop opera. The singer said her fans won't just be getting a concert, but her take on Broadway. Imagine her bloody VMA performance taken to the next level. "The basic philosophy of the show is theatrical," she said. "And that's what opera is — it's an ostentatious, over-the-top interpretation of a story. So that's what pretty much my whole life is, but that's what the show is [also]." She said the tour's theme is evolution , in a very literal sense. "I begin as a cell and I grow and change throughout the show," she said. "And it's also done in what now is becoming my aesthetic, which is, you know, it's part pop, part performance art, part fashion installation — so all of ... (link)