Lady Gaga Breaks Her Silence (Sorta); Posts Born This Way Tour Video

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You may not have noticed this, but Lady Gaga has been relatively quiet on the news front since canceling her Monster’s Ball tour on Valentine’s Day of this year. No news, few tweets beyond general updates, and certainly no talk of music or touring has escaped Mother Monster’s camp in weeks, but a video posted this morning gives us hope that will soon change.

Uploaded to Gaga’s official YouTube with no message to speak of, the video is a new time-lapse clip showing the stage construction efforts on her recent Born This Way Ball tour. Set to Born This Way˜s ScheiíŸe,” the three-and-a-half minute video shows just what it takes to put on a larger than life show, including the need for 15 53-foot-long trailers just so that set pieces could be carried inside the arena.

Time lapse footage of the stage build, performance, and strike of Lady Gaga’s 2012-2013 Born This Way Ball world tour – the largest scenic structure ever been built to tour.

The stage and set had many capabilities and functions, including 30 active windows and doors, each with a custom scenic painted roll drop which revealed different scenes within the various rooms of the castle, two swing walls which opened to reveal the 50 foot tall castle behind it, 620 feet of custom LED lights and two sets of automated castle gates that opened and closed to a full 180 degrees.

It took fifteen 53 foot long tractor trailers to move the castle and the main stage, and there are approximately 200 set carts that all of the elements travel in. To put that in perspective, if all of the set carts were lined up end to end, they would span approximately 1600 feet in length, the equivalent of over 5 football fields.