Love Game - Live Performances

Live Performances

Gaga performed "LoveGame" live on the UK program The Album Chart Show on February 14, 2009 as promotion for The Fame. On March 20, 2009, the song performed live at the AOL Sessions along with Gaga's other singles such as "Just Dance", "Paparazzi", "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich" and an acoustic version of "Poker Face". An acoustic version was performed at the MTV Sessions in January. The song was a major part of Gaga’s performance in her first headlining Fame Ball tour as the second number of the setlist and was performed alongside "Starstruck". Gaga wore a silver and black short skirt like a tutu shaped like a peplum with a triangular piece set on her right breast and high heeled ultra spike shoes. Gaga's hair was made an austere blond bob and she wore black sunglasses. She was surrounded by her dancers holding plates which were encrusted with crystals and completely hid them. The plates were angled similar to the dress she wore. As the performance of the opening number "Paparazzi" ended, the plates opened up and Gaga started singing the song "Starstruck" while standing on the platform. Pre-recorded music and mixing were provided in the background by DJ Space Cowboy. Gaga also brought out her "trademark" disco stick for the performance of "LoveGame". It ended with Gaga doing a dance routine for the last chorus and coming down to the front of the stage and saying the line "People say some really terrible things about me, I've thought about it, and they're mostly true."

On May 17, 2009, Gaga performed the song live on Australian talk show, Rove while wearing a one-legged black leotard and a blond bob haircut similar to that of her Fame Ball tour performance. She also performed the song at the season finale of the American Dancing with the Stars season eight. A remixed version of "Poker Face" and "LoveGame" was performed at the 2009 MuchMusic Video Awards, during the indoor-outdoor streetside show. The performance, which included Gaga being trapped in a fake subway car surrounded by fake police officers, was billed as a tribute to New York City. Gaga wore a Madonna inspired bustier with pyrotechnics which went off at the end. On September 8, 2009, Gaga performed the song live at the season seven premiere of The Ellen DeGeneres Show. A version featuring a full live band was performed by Gaga at the thirty-fifth season of American comedy show Saturday Night Live, while wearing a big gyroscope-like contraption that rotated around her. It was also performed on Gaga's The Monster Ball Tour. Gaga wore an off-white costume with skeletal lighted headgear and breastplates shaped like ribs. A digital background of flames and mechanical fog was featured, with the dancers also wearing skeletal headgear. The intro of the song featured a number of psychedelic fractal images on the backdrops, as the dancers writhed on stage. The video portrayed a rave-like haired Gaga purging green liquid on the white dress of a demure looking Gaga. On the revamped shows, she performed the song during the second act. During the performance she and her dancers emerge from a New York City subway car and perform a dance routine. While wearing a revealing plastic dress and an exaggerated nun's habit, Gaga bears her infamous "disco stick", except this time around the prop has been modified to look more like an Olympic style torch . The performance incorporates the Chew Fu remix of the song which commences at the end after Gaga screams to the audience "now dance you mother fuckers!" The song was also included on the set list of the 2012 Born This Way Ball Tour. The song was shortened and had Gaga performing it in a clear bath tub while wearing a Statue of Liberty styled head piece.