Gaga Gets Emotional In Vegas

Lady Gaga performed her A Star Is Born song “Shallow” live for a public audience for the first time during the opening night of her Enigma residency on Friday in Las Vegas.

The 32-year-old performed both her and Bradley Cooper’s verses in the song and she broke down in tears in the middle of the song.

“I love you so much. I’ve known some of you for so long. Do you remember this?” Gaga said in reference to her vintage concert tee before starting the song. “That’s you and me.”

“And for a really long time, I felt so misunderstood,” Gaga added. “I thought the way I dressed, the way I talk, the attitude, they thought it was shallow. But this sh*t is deep as f-k. I love you so much. I’m so proud to be your star, but the truth is, you gave birth to me.”

Gaga entertained a capacity crowd of 5,200 – which included Katy Perry, Dave Grohl, Regina King, Jeremy Renner, Orlando Bloom and Adam Lambert.

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During the show, she rides and whips a transformer-robot into shape, flies through the air while playing an electric guitar, and wears a light-up metal suit la David Bowie.

Here’s what the critics had to say about The Mother Monster’s show:

• Billboard’s Andreas Hale said Gaga served “an absolutely delicious smorgasbord of pop music, performance art and fantastic futurism during her 90-minute set that kicked off in true Gaga fashion.” “Enigma is a full theatrical production with an overarching theme of Lady Gaga seeking to find her inner voice in a narrative that is part ‘Wizard of Oz’ and part ‘Ghost in the Shell’ as Gaga interacted with an artificial lifeform known as ‘Enigma’ on the oversized screens,” Hale continued. “The set pieces were just as grandiose and over-the-top as the performances themselves.”
• People’s Mark Gray praised the residency as a “highly energetic show.” “Simply put, it lived up to the hype,” Gray wrote. “Enigma was very theatrical and very ‘Gaga.’”
• E! News’ Corinne Heller called the performance “out of this world!”
• Rolling Stone’s Brittany Spanos also praised the “sensory overload” of a performance. “For a show that at first seemed like an excuse to remind us what Gaga is best at, it ended up becoming a show that confirms and begins her legacy,” Spanos said.
• Yahoo Music’s Lyndsey Parker said the performance was a “full-on conceptual production featuring the diva at her campy, crazy best…”
• “Regardless of whether Gaga wins at the Oscars or Globes, she definitely won over Vegas this Friday,” Parker added.
• Entertainment Weekly’s Marc Snetiker dubbed the show a rebirth to a “weird, wonderful Lady Gaga.”
• ‘It’s admirable in its attempts to elevate a greatest-hits gathering into something striving for more, something that perhaps even galvanized an artist in the peak of her career to take a Vegas residency in the first place,” Snetiker wrote. “Lady Gaga has always spoken in theatre and spectacle – and in her stunning Las Vegas debut, her vocabulary has found a perfect home.”