Going gaga for Lady Gaga
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Ashley Karpa of Bethel Park waits in line to enter the Consol Energy Center for the Lady Gaga concert Sunday.
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Outside the Consol Energy Center Sunday night, you stood out if you didn't stand out.
In the crowd of people waiting to be admitted to the Lady Gaga concert, those wearing jeans and T-shirts were the strange ones. Sequins, spandex, cigarette sunglasses, lace, leather, tutus, wigs and bows, heels and bubbles, soda cans and fishnets -- that's what you wear to a Lady Gaga concert.
Lady Gaga's fans, or as she calls them, her Little Monsters, came out in full costume for the pop sensation's premiere performance in Pittsburgh, and it looked more like Halloween than the day before Labor Day outside the Uptown arena.
The singer is known as much for her songs, like "Paparazzi," "Bad Romance," and "Poker Face," as for her outrageous ensembles, like a gown orbited by plastic rings, a dress made entirely of plastic bubbles and gravity-defying heels.
As she tours around the country, her fans have arrived at her shows wearing their best Lady Gaga-imitation costumes in homage to her music videos, her award show performances or her photo shoots.
Even Lady Gaga's grandmother cannot believe the fandom her granddaughter (real name: Stefani Germanotta) has inspired, according to Janie Husek, who said she is friends with the grandmother, Ronnie Bissett of Glen Dale, W.Va., a town close to Shadyside, Ohio, where Ms. Husek lives.
Ms. Husek, who did stand out in her T-shirt and jeans, was running around taking pictures of fans in their costumes.
Paul and Ronnie Bissett were attending the Pittsburgh show, she said, but she wanted to take enough photos of the fans to make them a scrapbook.
"I just want them to see how much everyone loves their granddaughter," she said.
So, out of the thousands of fans who wore their Lady Gaga finest, a few for the scrapbook:
??????Alexandra Tkach, 15, of West Mifflin, didn't have a ticket for the concert, but she did have high heels, spandex leggings, a yellow wig and gloves. She was walking around the sidewalks of Consol with her sister and her friends, holding a cup filled with hot tea.
First Published September 5, 2010 9:49 pm
