Our Lady of Latex, GaGa Does DC

Photo by Allison Priebe Brooks/Local Kicks Washington went goo goo for GaGa Tuesday night.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Backpacks and lunches packed (check), kids off for first day of school (check), tickets for Gaga secured (check), time to go crazy and let loose - check check.  
 
Washington went wild for Lady GaGa on Tuesday night as we attended the Monster Ball with GaGa as our guide.
 

Photo by Allison Priebe Brooks/Local Kicks GaGa promised her fans: "Tonight in the Nation's Capital you are going to be super free. My fans - you have a place to go. You can be whoever you want to be. Follow the glitter way!"

While it may have been the first day of school for many area children or the first day back to work for those off much of a lazy August Washingtonians came alive and rose to meet Lady GaGa as she performed to a sold out audience at The Verizon Center Sept. 7.  
 
Lady Gaga promised early on in the night that the Monster Ball would set us free - she must have known just how stressed we've been here in DC...
 
Lady GaGa has been on tour promoting the Monster Ball and the Fame CD for months now and this is her first stop in our Nation's Capitol in 2010.  
 
The air was positively electric surrounding the concert and once inside it was amazing to see the fans dressed in various crazy ways to express their devotion to this pop icon.  
 
The crowd ranged from school-aged children and 'tweens to men and women in their fifties.  
 
The audience seemed to be mostly women and many dressed up  thrilled to be out of the house.  I stopped to ask one woman about her outfit and she commented she raided her daughter's play clothes toy box for the gold lame cape.  
 
A woman from a group of five women from Reston proclaimed, "We are The Real Housewives of Fairfax County! We have 13 children between us and our husbands are all so happy we are out tonight.  Only problem - our kids wanted to come with us.  We all love GaGa."
 

Photo by Allison Priebe Brooks/Local Kicks Lady GaGa has been on tour promoting the Monster Ball and the Fame CD for months now and this is her first stop in our Nation's Capitol in 2010.

Lady GaGa loves her fans right back and her fame is climbing.  
 
According to The New York Daily News, as of August 2010 Gaga has sold more than 15 million albums and 51 million singles worldwide.
 
In May 2010, Time magazine included Gaga in its annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. In June 2010, Forbes listed Gaga fourth on its list of the 100 Most Powerful and Influential celebrities in the world; she is also ranked as the second most powerful musician in the world.  
 
Plainly put, the world has gone goo goo for GaGa.
 
GaGa promised her fans, also known as little monsters, that "Tonight in the nation's capitol you are going to be super free.  My fans - you have a place to go.  You can be whoever you want to be.  Follow the glitter way!"  
 
She also could not let her time in DC go without being a tad political, "I am not just gonna prance around in a bra and underwear and not stand for anything."
 
She went on to describe her care and compassion for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered community.  
 
She let it be known that $20,000 from the show would go to help fight discrimination against LGBT service people and their defense fund.
 

Photo by Allison Priebe Brooks/Local Kicks Lady GaGa is positioned to take her place alongside legends such as Madonna, David Bowie or Freddie Mercury.

"Let tonight be your liberation.  Let go of your insecurities.  You are the superstars.  You were born this way. Don't leave loving me more - leave loving yourselves more."  
 
Fans went crazy as she performed megahits like Just Dance, Poker Face, Speechless, Teeth, as well as a couple of new songs, one of which was dedicated to her on again off again boyfriend.
 
As we watched people skipping out of the Verizon Center still singing lines from the closing song Bad Romance it was evident that a pop icon place in history was secure.
 
Currently the most searched person on Google and the person with the most Likes or Friends on Facebook, Lady GaGa is positioned to take her place alongside legends such as Madonna, David Bowie or Freddie Mercury.  
 
She will be back in Washington and the Verizon Center in late February 2011 and it appears as though we will all still be following the glitter way and our favorite Lady in Latex.