Lady Gaga gets emotional after her Miami concert is cut short from the stormy weather
Our crazy weather broke Lady Gaga.
The pop superstar had to stop her show around the midway point because a storm passed through Saturday night at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens.
The Magic City stop was the last in the line for the pop star’s 18-city Chromatica Ball international summer stadium tour that started in Dusseldorf, Germany, on July 17.
The “House of Gucci” star got emotional in breaking the news to her fans that the show would not go on due to “dangerous” weather conditions.
The stadium announced at 12:28 a.m. Sunday that after a delay due to “inclement” weather, the concert would resume as soon as possible.
Less than an hour later, the venue tweeted that the whole thing was called off.
“Tonight’s Lady Gaga show couldn’t continue after a show pause at 10:50 p.m. in the interest of fan safety due to inclement weather that included lighting.”
“We really tried to finish the show tonight,” she said in a teary video shared on social media. “But we couldn’t, because even when the rains sort of stopped there was lightning that was striking right down to the ground so close to us.”
Gaga (real name: Stefani Germanotta) added that she would have ideally loved to have performed her 2020 hit “Rain On Me” — appropriately in the rain — but conditions in the area just weren’t safe.
”I know that for a really long time I’ve always wanted to be that hardcore bad b----,” said the 36-year-old New Yorker. “But what I really want is to also be responsible and loving, and I don’t know what I would do if anything happened to anybody in the audience, or to any member of my crew or my band or my dancers.”
Gaga ended her apology with “Safety first. I love you.”
Safety first, indeed.
“When lightning is detected in close proximity to Hard Rock Stadium, the public address system will inform guests where to seek shelter,” says the venue’s website. “The event will be suspended if there is an imminent threat.”
In the event of a weather-related evacuation or relocation, there are no refunds issued.
On lifestyle page Only in Dade, bystanders captured a scary snippet of what concertgoers experienced.
While a group of people, some clad in slickers, sing “Rain on Me,” a bolt of lightning is seen in the sky, then a loud clap of thunder is heard, sounding a lot like a gunshot or cannon going off.
“Oh, s---!” says a man off camera.
The cheeky caption: ”Go home thunder, you’re drunk.”
This story was originally published September 19, 2022 at 11:41 AM.
