MTV.com – The delightfully ancient San Diego Sports Arena has, over the years, played host to the likes of Led Zeppelin, Elvis Presley, prize fights, NBA All-Star Games and the massive Kobey’s Swap Meet, where one can haggle over the price of airbrushed T-shirts or receive free legal advice. But it’s a pretty safe bet that the arena has never seen a show the likes of the one Lady Gaga put on Saturday night.
And though the show was quite a spectacle — lights! smoke! costume changes! — it was Gaga’s graciousness that made the crowd forgive the fact that at three different times during her set, she mistakenly addressed the crowd as “San Jose,” a city some 500 miles to the north.
The first instance — during a break in “Just Dance” — was greeted with puzzled, “What did she just say?” murmurs from the audience. The second, during “Love Game” (”Scream, San Jose!”), elicited a smattering of laughter. And the third, during some between-song banter (”Now, San Jose …”), got the crowd a bit agitated. It was a thoroughly surreal moment, though Gaga recovered beautifully, working the correct name of the city into the chorus of her song “Alejandro,” then, at song’s end, with a self-effacing (and crowd-pleasing) mea culpa.
“I am so lucky that San Diego rhymes with ‘Fernando’ and ‘Alejandro,’ ” MTV News’ Woman of the Year sheepishly laughed.
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