Lady Gaga wearing her “disco ball” bra. It’s the same handmade costume piece she wore during her sparsely attended side-stage appearance at the festival in 2007. Her performance had a strong motivational-speaker theme that hit its most personal note when she told her teeming fans about making the bra by hand and using it at her first Lollapalooza set, framing the story as a portrait in perseverance. (She definitely doesn’t lack an ego.) Then she brought out her old tour DJ and they did a choreographed head-banging dance while her band covered an old Metallica song.
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The sign language interpreter for Soundgarden. A lot of fans find the people signing lyrics from the side of the stage during festival sets strange and confusing, and sometimes having someone in front of you broadly gesturing along to the music can be distracting. In the case of the woman doing signing duties for Soundgarden’s set, this was a blessing. The band’s performance, like their music, was joyless and plodding, but her balls-out interpretive style, heavy on rock power moves, injected some actual fun into the set. At least someone on the stage looked like they were happy to be there.
