Possibly as a lot as Nancy Pelosi thrives on the video games of celebration politics, she additionally beloved being on the ground for Girl Gaga’s Mayhem Ball live performance at Chase Middle in San Francisco Sunday night time, the place she danced by means of the “entire” two-hour present and later gushed in regards to the singer’s music-and-dance spectacle on social media.
San Francisco’s longtime consultant in Congress was clearly again residence after Home Speaker Mike Johnson shut down the chamber for the summer season to dam Democrats like Pelosi from calling for the discharge of recordsdata associated to intercourse trafficking financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the month-to-month Group Volunteer Workday occasion on the Nationwide AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco on Saturday, June 17, 2023. (Ray Chavez/Bay Space Information Group)
That political drama gave the impression to be the farthest factor from Pelosi’s thoughts Sunday. One other individual within the flooring seats revealed that she sat immediately behind the Democratic power-broker, who was accompanied by her husband Paul Pelosi. That individual additionally loved posing for a selfie with Pelosi and writing: “Lady Gaga did not disappoint! Awesome show😎! Fun crowd… I sat directly behind Nancy Pelosi who danced the entire show.”
It was certainly a fairly unbelievable present, as this author famous in a evaluate of Gaga’s efficiency on July 22. It was “joyous, freaky, gothic, glorious, theatrical and even operatic,” with the singer returning to her roots as a dance-pop mega-star and creating music that individuals need to “Just Dance” to with pleasure, bravado and abandon.
In the course of the present, Gaga carried out a few of her followers’ favorites — “Poker Face,” “Paparazzi,” “Love Game,” and, after all, “Bad Romance” — combined in with new hits from “Mayhem,” her seventh studio album. The present additionally featured one high-energy dance quantity after one other — “”Simply Dance,” “Summerboy,” “Applause” and extra. In line with the witness, the 85-year-old Pelosi stored shifting your entire present.
Because the Each day Beast reported, Pelosi is a well-documented Gaga fan. Amongst different issues, she visited Radio Metropolis Music Corridor in 2021 to see the singer’s joint live performance with the late Tony Bennett. Close to the tip of her present, Gaga took a while to pay tribute to Bennett, her nice buddy and collaborator, who made his love of San Francisco recognized by means of his signature track, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.”
Whereas sitting alone on the piano to belt out a solo model of “Die With a Smile,” the soft-rock ballad she recorded with Bruno Mars, Gaga additionally thanked the individuals of San Francisco for the “dignity” they confirmed her when she first carried out at golf equipment within the Bay Space as a 19-year-old.
“I was touring clubs all over the world, and, you know, some places that I went, they just didn’t understand me, you know?” Gaga mentioned. “They loved the songs, but they were like, ‘she’s interesting.’ But not here. I was accepted and I was embraced.”
