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WASHINGTON: White leather couches, black satin drapes, Jameson whiskey and organic foods were among the demands that Lady Gaga made during her Monster’s Ball tour.
According to Celebuzz, the singer requested during her two-and-a-half year tour that her dressing room be decorated in “glam rock” fashion, with silver satin walls, white leather couches, black satin drapes and posters of famous rock stars
such as David Bowie, Queen and Elton John, ABC News reported.According to Celebuzz, the singer requested during her two-and-a-half year tour that her dressing room be decorated in “glam rock” fashion, with silver satin walls, white leather couches, black satin drapes and posters of famous rock stars
She also requested that a mannequin with “puffy pink pubic hair” be placed in her dressing room. In addition, Gaga requested that her backstage bathroom be decked out with lavender-coloured bath towels, hand towels, wash clothes, hand soap, body wash and face soap. She also required sea-foam loofah sponges, a candle and fresh roses-in lavender, of course.
When it came to food, Gaga aimed for healthy, requesting organic teas and milk, organic tortilla chips, sprouted grain tortillas, peanut butter with no more than four grams of sugar, tuna and Activia yoghurt.
But she allowed for a couple vices, specifically “quality white wine” and Jameson whiskey.
Steven Tyler would have a member of the Aerosmith entourage make sure any girl Tyler took a liking to was in the shower by the time he returned to his dressing room. As for his cocaine, Tyler liked a lot of it, and whenever the band was on tour, the front man would demand a full-length, six-foot-long mirror in the dressing room.
As she readied for her 2010 tour, popstar Rihanna made sure the prepping area of every concert venue felt like home-which is, apparently, a leopard-print haven littered with Archipelago Black Forest candles that cost 29 dollars a pop.
The singer had specific instructions for flowers arranged. “Small, clear, square vases with White Tulips, if in season-No Foliage (2nd choice: White Casablanca Lilies no foliage, 3rd choice: White Freesia no foliage),” the rider said.
Mariah Carey is not to be outdone by relative newcomer
Rihanna. According to her 2010 tour rider obtained by the Smoking Gun, Carey requested such luxuries as a 200-dollar bottle of cabernet sauvignon, two dozen white roses and vanilla aromatherapy candles in her dressing room. Her rider requested that the temperature of her room hover at 75 degrees and the furniture in her “living room space” bear “no busy patterns; black, dark grey, cream, dark pink are all fine.”
The Foo Fighters set the “standard for really fun, witty contract riders,” the Smoking Gun’s managing editor Andrew Goldberg said. “The manager requests bath towels, and threatens a wedgie if they’re brand new,” he said.
When she’s on the road, Christina Aguilera requests real coffee mugs for her java, along with soy milk, soy cheese, echinacea, vitamin C and Flintstones chewable vitamins-according to her 2010 tour rider.
