Lady Gaga Presents- The Monster Ball Tour At Ma... -

While the tour initially supported The Fame Monster , this specific MSG stop (filmed in February 2011) sits in a beautiful temporal pocket. Gaga had just released "Born This Way" (the single) days before the shoot. Watching her perform it live at the Garden, with the iconic piano intro and horn section, is to watch an artist realize she is about to get much bigger.

: Critics from Slant Magazine note that the HBO special reinforces Gaga’s "downtown freak-at-heart" credibility by juxtaposing high-fashion arena footage with black-and-white clips of her visiting her old New York neighborhood. Lady Gaga Presents- The Monster Ball Tour at Ma...

, there was a gritty, high-fashion odyssey through a neon New York City known as The Monster Ball Tour While the tour initially supported The Fame Monster