Lady Gaga dons a fan’s home-made UVA shirt during “Telephone.”
PHOTO BY TOM DALY

Update: Check out the SLIDESHOW from Lady Gaga’s Glitterway.

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The premise that Lady Gaga is the Madonna for Gen Y — the sex appeal, the pop, the choreography— is accurate, but it’s lazy at best. Gaga goes deeper than she gets credit for, decades beyond just cone bras in the ’80s, taking inspiration from rockers whose fans probably can’t stand her— from Elvis Presley’s scandalous hip-wiggles to Bowie’s androgynous glam. As a revolutionary, Gaga surpasses them, if only because they laid the groundwork.

“I love Gaga because she’s a combination of Madonna’s sexuality and Michael Jackson’s morbidity that she brings to a new level,” said fourth year UVA student and Gaga follower Tasha Nadasdi. “Everyone else plays it safe with standards. She says, ‘F*** it.’”

Hordes of sparkly, scantily-clad, slightly intoxicated UVA boys and girls flooded the John Paul Jones Arena last night, along with greying but fabulously energetic middle-aged adults, all of them shouting out Gaga’s name and waving (more)

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