Final evening, Might 3, Woman Gaga performed a large free live performance at Copacabana Seaside in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Now, Rio’s state police have shared that, simply hours previous to her efficiency, a person within the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul was arrested for unlawful firearm possession and an adolescent in Rio de Janeiro was taken into custody on baby pornography fees, each in reference to an alleged plot to detonate home made explosive units on the present.
Brazil’s Justice Ministry recognized the older male because the chief of an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group that, in line with Reuters, “recruited people, together with minors, to hold out co-ordinated assaults utilizing improvised explosives and Molotov cocktails.” This was reportedly achieved by impersonating followers of Woman Gaga, referred to as Little Monsters, in on-line boards and on social media. Native authorities state that they carried out further raids and seizures within the houses of 15 suspects throughout the nation. The live performance itself was not cancelled and proceeded with out disruption. In a report from the Related Press, the police declare that they didn’t contact the occasion’s organizers on the time to “keep away from panic” and “the distortion of knowledge”
“We realized about this alleged menace by way of media reviews this morning,” representatives for Woman Gaga shared in a press release to Pitchfork. “Previous to and throughout the present, there have been no recognized security considerations, nor any communication from the police or authorities to Woman Gaga concerning any potential dangers. Her crew labored intently with regulation enforcement all through the planning and execution of the live performance and all events have been assured within the security measures in place.”
Billed as “Mayhem on the Seaside,” Woman Gaga’s first Brazilian efficiency since 2012 drew an viewers of two.5 million, making for the highest-attended live performance of all time by a feminine artist. The file was beforehand held by the Copacabana Seaside cease on Madonna’s Celebration Tour in 2024. In a message posted to her Instagram earlier as we speak, which doesn’t point out the alleged bomb menace, Woman Gaga wrote: “Nothing may put together me for the sensation I had throughout final evening’s present—absolutely the satisfaction and pleasure I felt singing for the folks of Brazil. The sight of the gang throughout my opening songs took my breath away.” Learn the entire thing beneath.
Woman Gaga shared Mayhem, her seventh official studio album, in March. She was one of many headliners on the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Competition, the place she gave many songs from the file their dwell debut. This 12 months, Woman Gaga has additionally carried out on the Grammy Awards—the place she gained Greatest Pop Duo/Group Efficiency for her Bruno Mars duet “Die With a Smile”—the 2025 Tremendous Bowl, and Saturday Night time Reside. The subsequent cease on her worldwide Mayhem Ball Tour might be 4 nights at Singapore’s Nationwide Stadium, starting Might 18.
