Purdue Going GOGO for GAGA

Lady GAGA officially announced last week that her tour will be making a stop in West Lafayette on January 14th. Purdue students where shocked and excited to hear that such a big artist like Lady Gaga would actually come to Purdue.

Purdue is not known for scoring any really big name artist. The last couple of years their has been a campaign to try to improve the entertainment that comes to Purdue. Efforts have improved with the help of the student concert committee. Last year Purdue was able to get Robin Williams to come back and do a show. Also, Purdue had Jason Maraz perform as well as OAR. Essentially this is the first time Purdue has really had a huge star that is on the up rise come perform. This can be the key factor in getting more artist in the future come perform at Purdue.

The big question is why did Lady GaGa choose to perform at Purdue of all places? My guess is she really like Purdue's Elliot Hall of music theatre style venue. Lady GaGa admitted after Kayne West dropped out of the tour that she prefers doing smaller theatre-like venues than stadiums. She is a true performer and wants the whole audience close up to see her performance.

GaGa will be doing three shows in Chicago the week before she comes to Purdue. All her tickets for the Chicago shows sold out the day of the presale in less than 10 minutes. This could be another reason Lady Gaga choose Purdue because it only 2 hours from Chicago and she has a really strong fan base in this area.

Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10am to all Purdue Students. Only half of the tickets are getting released. The other half as well as the meet and greet passes will be available to the general public on Saturday through Ticketmaster.

I must admit I was one of the crazy people who got first in line this morning for the tickets. I am planning on camping out all night to get good seats. This is a once and a lifetime experience that I can say I took part in. I think Lady Gaga is a great performer and will put on a hell of a show. I know this concert will be one night I won't forget!

~Sarah~