Live Performances
Gaga has performed "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich" live at the AOL Sessions, where she also performed "Just Dance," an acoustic version of "Poker Face," "Paparazzi," and "LoveGame." She also performed it at the MTV UK Live Sessions, also singing "Just Dance," "LoveGame," and "Poker Face." She most notably performed the song on her first headlining The Fame Ball Tour. On the tour, it was preceded by the song "Paparazzi," which ended with clicking cameras and a brief medley of "Starstruck" and "LoveGame." The performance of "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich" followed, with Gaga frolicking with her dancers and wearing an "austere" blonde bob wig and a "sculptural bustier with futuristic triangular silver panels, and exaggerated peplum," which was one of her six costumes over the course of the show. The song was the end of the first of four parts of the show, and was followed by a video clip, "The Brain," which featured Gaga as her alter ego, Candy Warhol, brushing her hair.
The performance of the song, along with the rest of the first quarter of the show, was praised by Jim Harrington of Mercury News for giving the show a strong beginning, and Gaga's vocal performance was also complimented. Mikael Wood of Rolling Stone was rather critical of the performance; Wood claimed that it grew tiresome quickly but praised Gaga for her energy. Whitney Pastorek of Entertainment Weekly praised Gaga's "strong" singing voice, adding, "The girl can, and does, sing."
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