WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Lady Gaga showered sweet talk on her Tuesday night audience at Purdue University — loyalists who waited for the pop star’s return after a late-breaking show postponement Jan. 14.
“There are so many superfans here tonight,” Gaga told the sold-out crowd of 6,000 at the school’s Elliott Hall of Music.

If attendees came to hear the over-the-top celebrity share something extra on the final night of her U.S. tour, Gaga mentioned she’s in rehearsals for Sunday’s Grammy Awards telecast.
A personal touch actually arrived with two songs Gaga performs every night: “Speechless” and “Teeth.” The former allowed the 23-year-old to display undeniable talent in the context of a piano ballad. The latter was a half-gospel, half-march dance number performed in a black leotard and accompanied by no gimmicks.
“Teeth” proved to be one of the few moments Gaga stepped outside a literal box that framed the back half of the stage.
Inspired by past iconography of films, she paused in the middle of a piano rendition of “Poker Face” to rat-a-tat the crowd with a prop machine gun.
Hoosier acting great James Dean was mentioned in the lyrics of “Speechless,” while legendary film director Stanley Kubrick is cited in the lyrics of “Dance in the Dark.”
The sex party Kubrick devised for “Eyes Wide Shut” may have influenced the gold Venetian mask Gaga wore during “The Fame,” which was contrasted by priestess imagery as she swung a metal container of incense.
The mixed-message party of “The Fame” launched an amped-up medley that included “Money Honey” and “Beautiful, Dirty, Rich.” All three songs appear on Gaga’s debut album, “The Fame,” which generally sounds more fun and inventive than material on her recent EP, “The Fame Monster.”
The biggest hits of “The Fame” dominated the final stages of Gaga’s performance, sending fans home on a synthpop high.
She told her “Little Monsters” that when people ask why she spends so much on her show, the answer is, “My fans are sexy.”
A larger truth likely is based on a talented pop musician eager to filter her talents through the biggest and best things that shaped her world