Lady Gaga ditches the mic on ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ and shouts out the trans community in jazzy Vegas return

Lady Gaga has made waves in the past for her stripped-down performances and impromptu a cappella moments, where she’s let her bare voice move a crowd. While belting the final notes of the late Tony Bennett’s version of “Fly Me to the Moon,” Gaga lowered her microphone as her voice filled the 5,200-seat Dolby Live theater at Park MGM and the audience erupted in cheers. Her voice projected as far as the upper balcony, where one fan recorded the moment as Gaga dramatically stretched each word in the closing lyrics, “Please be true / In other words, I love you.” This isn’t the first time the “Born This Way” singer has gone sans mic during a live performance. While touring with Bennett in 2015, Gaga went without a microphone for several notes while singing “Bang Bang ” in Concord, Calif. Also at Thursday’s Vegas performance, Gaga, who is bisexual, dedicated her LGBTQ+ anthem “Born This Way” to the trans community. “You got something to say, you gotta speak up right?” She ended her song by inviting people who might be unsure about “what to say” in advocating for trans lives to “just listen, don’t say nothin’ — listen to stories of real people’s lives.” Thursday’s show marked the Grammy- and Oscar-winning artist’s first concert during the most recent leg of her ongoing Vegas residency, which started in December 2018.