Lady Gaga to Tampa artist: "Cam Parker, you are the shit!"

A magnificent Monstergram from Mama herself.

click to enlarge Cam Parker's Lady Gaga mural in between Robertson Billiards and the Hall On Franklin in Tampa, Florida. - Ray Roa
Ray Roa
Cam Parker's Lady Gaga mural in between Robertson Billiards and the Hall On Franklin in Tampa, Florida.

Just before 11 p.m. on Friday night, Lady Gaga completed a 21-song set for a sold-out crowd of almost 17,000 fans packed into Tampa's Amalie Arena.

Minutes afterwards, from inside her bacskstage dressing room, Ms. Joanne told her nearly 30 million Instagram followers how much she loved a mural completed by Tampa artist Cam Parker.

"Cam Parker, you are the shit," she said in a post to her Insta story. "Thank you so much for my incredible mural."

How you like that for a Monster-gram?

READ MORE: Tampa artist Cam Parker slathers devotion for Lady Gaga on wall near Hall On Franklin

Just moments before, Parker — situated in the general admission, standing room floor level — handed Gaga a photo of the mural before she closed her set with "Million Reasons' from her Grammy-nominated 2017 LP.

"Did you paint this mural of me in your city?," Gaga asked as the entire arena looked on. "Will you sign it?"

Carter, 34, already had.

"A true artist right there," Gaga quipped. "That's one talented dude there."

In a previous story, Parker, a Gaga superfan, told CL that he hoped his art would inspire the pop star and style icon to stop by, "take a selfie with it, and send me a DM saying, ‘Hey what’s up CAM, let’s grab a PBR before I leave Tampa!"

“But mostly," he said. "I just want her to see it and feel love, and maybe make her cry a little bit.”

We don't think any Pabst was had, but a whole lot of love for Gaga — and Tampa — just got felt across the globe.

Look for CL's review of the show in the morning. Watch Gaga's video in her Instagram story.


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Ray Roa

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...
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