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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
INDIO, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 11: (FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY) (EXCLUSIVE ACCESS) Lady Gaga performs at the Coachella Stage during the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at Empire Polo Club on April 11, 2025 in Indio, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Coachella)

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: