by: Alana Brown-Davis
This Wednesday, Lady Gaga kicked off her ‘Mayhem Ball’ tour in T Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. ‘The Mayhem Ball’ is the pop icon’s seventh headlining tour, accompanying her spring release ‘Mayhem’. Lady Gaga blended the old with the new in her opening night performing classics like ‘Applause’ and ‘Just Dance’ in addition to her recent releases such as ‘Garden of Eden’ and ‘Disease’. In the middle of the show she announced, “Welcome to Mayhem. Welcome … to the opera house. This is my house.”
Lady Gaga has truly turned 2025 into her year with her sixth studio album and a Coachella performance that is surely one of her greatest.
‘The Mayhem Ball’ Setlist
The Mother Monster announced the tour earlier this year in an Instagram post. “This show is designed to be the kind of theatrical and electrifying experience that brings MAYHEM to life exactly how I envision it.” She also noted that previous tours of hers like ‘Chromatica’ were set in a stadium. However, for ‘The Mayhem Ball’ she strived to include arena spaces in her concerts hoping that the theatrical design would be translated well.
‘The Mayhem Ball’ setlist includes:
- “Bloody Mary”
- “Abracadabra”
- “Judas” (with a snippet of “Aura”)
- “Scheiße”
- “Garden of Eden”
- “Poker Face”
- “Perfect Celebrity”
- “Disease”
- “Paparazzi”
- “LoveGame”
- “Alejandro”
- “The Beast”
- “Killah”
- “Zombieboy”
- “LoveDrug”
- “Applause”
- “Just Dance”
- “Shadow of a Man”
- “Kill for Love”
- “Summerboy”
- “Born This Way”
- “Million Reasons”
- “Shallow”
- “Die With a Smile”
- “Vanish Into You”
- “How Bad Do U Want Me”
- “Bad Romance”
The concert on Wednesday was the first of three shows in Las Vegas with 28 others stretched across North America. ‘The Mayhem Ball’ will hit cities like Seattle, Toronto, Chicago, and New York until the beginning of fall. She will begin her European leg of the tour in London, Milan, Stockholm, and Barcelona.