Lady Gaga and her little monsters, last night at Sprint Center
Sunday night, on Twitter, Lady Gaga shouted out Kansas City ribs. She did so again Monday night, during the encore of her show at the Sprint Center. She was perched up on the third floor of the elaborate castle that serves as the stage backdrop for shows on the Born This Way Ball, her current tour. The song was “The Edge of Glory,” and she was doing that thing performers sometimes do where they tell personal stories in between the formal lyrics of the song.
“I ate some of your ribs last night, Kansas City,” Gaga said, to big, wild, proud roars from the crowd. Then she sang part of the verse of “The Edge of Glory.” Then she goes, “That’s when I knew tonight was going to be a great night. Because anybody that can barbecue a piece of meat like that is OK with me.” And everybody screamed, and then Gaga sang more of the song. Then dancers appeared, and the lights started flashing, and the music kicked up into a disco-beat power ballad, and the drunk girls in the row behind me started shrieking their horrible shrieks again, and that was pretty much the end of the rib story. We never learned where the ribs came from. Probably not Oklahoma Joe’s. It’s closed on Sundays.
