The star last played The Fame favorite 18 years ago at Lollapalooza
Nowhere, the old Lady Gaga is going nowhere! On Wednesday night, Gaga opened her Mayhem Ball tour in Las Vegas — and while she celebrated her latest project on the setlist, she also made way for several deep cuts, including “Summerboy,” which she hadn’t performed in 18 years.
The “Summerboy” performance saw Gaga playing the Fame song on guitar while surrounded by dancers in what seemed like a heated summer club setting. She snuck the track later in the show after debuting the Mayhem bonus song “Kill for Love.”
The only other time Gaga had performed “Summerboy” before Wednesday night’s Mayhem Ball show was during a performance at Lollapalooza in 2007, where she played the song in panties and black stockings. It was well before her first single, “Just Dance,” and her album The Fame, which came in 2008.
Many moments of nostalgia were sprinkled throughout Gaga’s Mayhem Ball set. Early in the show, she performed “Aura” from Artpop, and revisited the album with a shortened rendition of its single “Applause,” which she hadn’t played since 2020. The concert also included Joanne‘s “Million Reasons” and a new version of “Just Dance.”
“Thank you for all the ways you’ve made me so strong for so long. Thank you for being such a wonderful community I can rely on and come here to be myself,” Gaga said at one moment during the show. “You have shown me so much love and grace. You’ve given me so much opportunity… Before I came onstage, I couldn’t even believe that you were all here for me and that this was my show.”
