{"id":144352,"date":"2010-01-06T08:11:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T13:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=87623"},"modified":"2010-01-06T08:11:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T13:11:27","slug":"lady-gaga-tour-going-broke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/144352","title":{"rendered":"Lady Gaga Tour Going Broke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lady Gaga&#8217;s hit &#8220;Monster Ball Tour&#8221; is reportedly facing a serious deficit, despite being completely sold out.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Bad Romance&#8221; charttopper \u2013 who describes her stage show as<em> &#8220;ostentatious and over-the-top&#8221;<\/em> \u2013 takes a financial hit every night she performs on the North American leg of her tour, which has so far overspent by more than $2 million even though fans quickly snatched up tickets to every concert.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Lady-Gaga-Tour-500x649.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lady Gaga Tour\" width=\"500\" height=\"649\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-74872\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-87623\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to new reports, Gaga&#8217;s massive tour costs have been run up by the singer&#8217;s elaborate taste in stage design, costumes, and props &#8212; including a $50,000 bathtub she used while making a promotional appearance on the UK TV talent show <em>The X Factor<\/em> last November.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The concerts are losing money hand over fist because they&#8217;ve spent a fortune on pricey costumes, technical equipment and elaborate set designs. She spent $500,000 on one stage alone,&#8221; <\/em>a set tattle blabbed to Britain&#8217;s <em>The Sun<\/em> this week. <em>&#8220;But Lady Gaga gets what Lady Gaga wants. Her wardrobe is huge and she wants to shock \u2013 and that costs serious money.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to her spokesman, the 23-year-old singer\/songwriter just <em>&#8220;doesn&#8217;t care&#8221;<\/em> about finances. While she has already overspent massively, Lady Gaga\u2019s bills are expected to soar again when she picks out a completely different set for the European part of her tour. <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I can&#8217;t comment on figures but it wouldn&#8217;t be a surprise. Gaga puts everything into her live shows. I wouldn&#8217;t want to be her accountant,&#8221;<\/em> he told the tabloid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/UisCwZBqvsBAZClpJmeyjvPxdzE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/UisCwZBqvsBAZClpJmeyjvPxdzE\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/UisCwZBqvsBAZClpJmeyjvPxdzE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/UisCwZBqvsBAZClpJmeyjvPxdzE\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lady Gaga&#8217;s hit &#8220;Monster Ball Tour&#8221; is reportedly facing a serious deficit, despite being completely sold out. The &#8220;Bad Romance&#8221; charttopper \u2013 who describes her stage show as &#8220;ostentatious and over-the-top&#8221; \u2013 takes a financial hit every night she performs on the North American leg of her tour, which has so far overspent by more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}