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Video Of The Day: Lady Gaga Really Knows How To Make An Entrance At Coachella

Lady Gaga in a giant red dress

Gaga launched her Coachella set like a mythic sorceress descending from the sky — and that was just the beginning.

If you thought Lady Gaga would stroll into Coachella like a mortal, think again—she hovered (read: served high drama, quite literally) from 20 feet in the air like a cosmic diva sent to reboot our collective souls. In the opening moments of her nearly two-hour desert opera, Gaga delivered a spellbinding poem before plunging us into the gothic ecstasy of “Bloody Mary” and the theatrical fever dream that is “Abracadabra.”

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With choreography that looked like a séance and vocals that could rattle the bones of old Hollywood starlets, this wasn’t just a concert — it was a full-blown ritual.

Watch the video below if you’re ready to be baptized in synth and sequins: