This sounds close enough to a vampish and actorly display from 2012-era Gaga, but things have changed. Last year's Netflix doc Gaga: Five Foot Two was always going to colour this imaginary anecdote of rejection and numerous moments in the tour. The film showed the severe physical pain Gaga endured while making Joanne – the very same illness, in fact, which led to her European tour (including this Milan gig) being rescheduled last September. Many people were jarred by the Gaga, the person, displayed in that making of her fifth studio album. They didn’t expect the impact a uniquely demanding schedule would have on someone they’d naively perceived to be bulletproof. In the film, she can appear exhausted, irritable to the point of cross, in physical pain, and surrounded by people at all times but essentially, pervasively, lonely. A human being. “I sold 10 million and lost Matt. I sold 30 million and lost Luke. I did a movie and lose Taylor. It's like a turnover. This is the third time I’ve had my heart broken like this,” she says, sadly and plainly. What Gaga wants nearly as much as her career and fans, is a partner, a family. The physical and emotional strains of stardom are evidently sacrifices for brilliance.