Live Review: Lady Gaga in T.O.

TORONTO - Those Little Monsters sure love their Mama.

Thousands of Lady Gaga's fans braved the worst snow storm in Toronto in five years to see Mother Monster's Born This Way Ball at the first of two stops at the Air Canada Centre Friday night.

Sure, there were more than a few empty seats due to Nemo, as they called Friday's blizzard for some bizarre reason, but those who did make it out saw the 26-year-old mega-pop star, who returns to the ACC Saturday, put on a monster show for the most part.

She was even dressed like an alien cloaked in an elaborate black headdress that kept her face from the audience for the first couple of songs as she emerged from a pink lit castle, which her band was largely hidden in, with many dancers all around her as they walked around the large catwalk.

That is until she really made the mother of all entrances -- sorry about the pun -- wearing a flesh-coloured dress and literally clawing her way out of a womb between a pair of splayed legs during the song Born This Way.

Anyone in the crowd who ever wanted to have children may have just rethought it at that particular moment.

"Canada, you are the future," she declared. "Let's all go crazy! I missed you!"

What followed were many costume changes, lots of choreographed dance moves, props (such as a bed), and her long, striking, biohazard green hair that was often tied up in a bun.

"Tomorrow, I wish you the worst Lady Gaga hangover of your life," she said. "Your vomit will be the colour of my hair."

Truer words were never spoken.

Gaga also upped the ante as she c! hanged into a white brimmed hat and dress that appeared to move on wheels and increased her height during the tune Bloody Mary, and emerged from the egg she made famous on the Grammys red carpet a few years ago, in a white mini mouse outfit for Bad Romance.

You can't say the girl lacks ideas, even if they did seem a bit all over the place at times.

"I am not an alien! I am not a woman! I am not a man! I am not human! And I'm not a creature of your government, Canada," she proclaimed about 40 minutes into the show. "When they ask who is Lady Gaga, you tell them that I am you!"

Then there was a long dramatic pause.

"I will suck the life and the ideas out of every monster in Toronto tonight. I will finally be able to invade the earth as your pop star. Will you stand by me?"

Gaga also made good use of the pink palace during Just Dance as she wandered around it dressed up in a pink hat and dress, and played a pink keytar and then let her long hair go free during Love Game and Telephone on the catwak.

"Do you remember when you heard this song first?" she asked of Just Dance. "I do, because it went No. 1 in Canada first. It changed my life and so did you."

There was also a cool-looking multi-coloured electric chapel after Lady Gaga's song of the same name.

Only five years ago "she was a waitress in New York," as she pointed out from the enormous stage.

Just look at her now, she seemed to be saying.

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