Lady Gaga fans were so blown away by her headlining performance during Weekend One of Coachella earlier this month that many of them were inspired to return a week later to see her knock it out of the polo field again.
Meanwhile some, who were on the fence, pilgrimaged to the desert after watching it on the live stream in order to experience "Gagachella" in person and were not disappointed.
The orchestra, the choreography, the drama -- all the things Gaga did to transform the enormous stage into a gothic opera house which pulled mainly from her new album, Mayhem, delighted her fans to no end.
So what did the Grammy-winner do for an encore in front of 63,000 in Mexico City's enormous soccer stadium on Saturday (4/26)?
She live debuted a new song to the set, "Blade of Grass," perhaps her most romantic tune from Mayhem, a love song co-written by her fiancé.
When Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta and her longtime beau Michael Polansky were discussing how he should pop the question, Gaga suggested he do something simple, humble, and personal. You know, some good romance.
“He said to me, ‘If I ever proposed to you, how do I do that?’” Gaga told E! News last month. “And I said, ‘Just get a blade of grass from the backyard and wrap it around my finger.’ And he did. He did that when he proposed.”
But why grass from her backyard? Why not from Coachella or from the yard where she grew up at or somewhere more famous?
“My backyard and those blades of grass was also the place where I saw my friend Sonya get married, and then two months later, she passed away,” she said at a Spotify event in February.
“There was so much loss in that backyard and in my life. You know those places in your life where it’s like, maybe your happy place but also your sad place? So that song, that’s what Mayhem is to me. So it’s a very special song to me.”
The song, like many on the album, is a paradox of both light and dark, happy and sad. And in a lot of ways it bookends her Grammy-winning "Die with a Smile," that also has the theme of love and death being intertwined.
Gaga was photographed wearing the simple grass ring on the promotional photos of the duet with Bruno Mars. When it was time for Polansky to fork over a proper ring, he delivered with a half-million dollar rock.
Lady Gaga often wears both rings: symbolic of her enormous success and her romantic idealism.
The show was her first time back in Mexico's capital city since 2012. She read a speech to the adoring fans in Spanish. She sang from a balcony with the Mexican flag draped from it. She did all the right things.
The Telegraph called it, "Tim Burton meets Rocky Horror high-concept, high-camp goth opera that sets the standard for gloriously overblown pop performance."
Even Katy Perry who was in town for a huge show of her own saw the spectacle and delivered a positive review:
"Show was MAGINIFCA! The dress! The sand! Every moment was theee moment," the singer posted on her IG story.
"So proud of you and grateful to grow up together @ladygaga Love u."
Gaga now heads to Brazil and then Singapore. Come summer she is scheduled for a trio of shows in Vegas, then SF, then four gigs in LA.
Grab your tickets off her website before they disappear.
