(29 Jul 2025)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Los Angeles – 29 July 2025
1. Wide shot of The Forum
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Kati Prescott, Lady Gaga fan:
"This is only my second time seeing Gaga and like this one is like I had to and this is honestly like a joint effort. Like I made the wig and then my mom made this dress."
(Reporter: You made the wig?")
"I made this wig."
(Reporter: "How long does it take to pull something off like that?")
"Oh, like maybe 10 hours. Or the whole thing probably like over a weekend. YouTube tutorials from drag queens, man. They will change your life."
3. Wide shot of The Forum with Lady Gaga signage
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Kati Prescott, Lady Gaga fan:
"It’s all the beautiful weirdos of the world who never feel seen, who never feel heard. And it’s like she creates the safe space and a home. Even just being here, everybody’s just like in such a happy mood because they can be free. They can just be themselves. And then we need her now more than ever. And these trying times like she helped me through the pandemic, girl help me though these awful times."
5. Various, fans line up to buy Lady Gaga merchandise
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ben Fitchett, Lady Gaga fan:
"Gaga is so authentically her and I think everyone in the LGBTQIA+ community is like you know there’s such a big part of your life where you are in self-acceptance and you are searching for your own identity and she allows you to be yourself and she wants you to be yourself. And I think there’s so many aspects of her music and her image and just you know breaking out of the norms that allows you, to feel like you are yourself and I think that’s really important for the LGBTQIA+ community who are, you know, trying to figure out who they are, trying to figure where they place themselves within society because there’s so many norms that are boxes that you’re supposed to fit into and she never fits into those boxes. She purposefully tries to be different, she purposefully tries to be herself and it’s so inspiring to have an idol and someone that will help you embrace that sort of feeling. So I think that’s probably, for me specifically, why she is such a big part of my life."
7. Close up Lady Gaga ‘Mayhem Ball’ signage
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ben Fitchett, Lady Gaga fan:
"Yes, because I think there’s so many fans, you know, like myself, like many of us here that have, feel like, you now, we’re reliving the era that we fell in love with her with, but I think also, again, back to my point before, she’s been very authentically herself. She’s very much, the Gaga that we all fell in with was the fearless Gaga, was the authentically her self, was a wacky Gaga that just came onto the scene and did something completely different. And I think it’s no different for people that… Maybe weren’t around for that era before, that are coming in now, because they’re getting to relive that. You think of all the young people that are, you know, early teens, late children, that maybe get to listen to Gaga back then, but they’re also reliving what we got to go through during this bad monster, oh my god, the fame monster era. It’s just like, you’re getting for relive this like authentic, awesome self of like, Gaga being truly who she is."
9. Lady Gaga fans take photos outside venue
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Thailin Silva, Lady Gaga fan:
11. Wide Lady Gaga signage
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Favricio Limo, Lady Gaga fan:
13. Wide interior of The Forum as lights dim for concert
STORYLINE:
Kati Prescott, dressed in a homemade ensemble she crafted with her mother, said attending the concert was non-negotiable.
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