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She has a habit of declaring her desire to deliver the unexpected. But although Lady Gaga’s performance at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York City on Sunday night was vaguely impressive visually, the singer mostly just brought back a collection of old looks in a performance art piece that could have easily been named “the evolution of Gaga”.
The 27-year-old singer hit the red carpet – with her father as her date – in a dress that was particularly conservative for her, before undergoing a whirlwind of wardrobe transformations within a matter of minutes on stage.
Gaga opened the night with a performance of her latest single entitled “Applause”, which would be her first stage appearance since her hip surgery.
As a planned slice of irony, her show opened with a resounding “boo” from the audience.
The pop star made a grand entrance wearing an all-white ensemble and her face tightly framed by a large white headdress, essentially looking like a blank piece of paper crossed with a priest.
She began by staring out from her white wall, uttering the opening lyrics with a painfully stilted look on her face.
The singer then – quite literally – broke out of the white enclosure, and her performance seemed to begin. With the help of her dancers – who doubled as stage hands – Gaga proceeded to undergo multiple transformations throughout her routine, appearing to symbolically evolving from her opening status as a “blank canvas”.
The gaudy nun look is one the star has been giving a trial run in her day-to-day outfits of late, perhaps in the lead-up to tonight’s display. When it was time for a change, the singer stood still while the dancers surrounded her and skilfully made it happen within the blink of an eye.
From the white ensemble, Gaga was stripped down to a black bodysuit and a blonde wig was slipped onto her head.
She hopped about in this for a while before everyone on stage started throwing around blue balls as well as Gaga herself in the quickly escalating performance art display.
With with the help of her dancers’ nifty hands, Gaga then lost that wig and her face was suddenly painted in the same way it is on the “Applause” single cover.
A curly yellow wig was thrown onto her head as the lycra-clad dancers worked up a sweat on stage.
Gaga then ran away – literally – and re-emerged after a much more complex change: this time, she wore a seashell bikini and giant blonde curly wig.
The latter was one of the many outfits she wore in her music video for “Applause”, so it’s unlikely she delivered any major surprises as such to her fans in this performance.
It was a fairly basic dance routine for Gaga, who largely acted as a canvas for the extravagant imagery. But the controversial singer never claimed to be big on dance routines; re-creating her own form of pop art seems to be her priority.
Earlier in the evening, Lady Gaga made an uncharacteristically “normal” turn on the red carpet.
The “Bad Romance” songstress – who once wore a large steak as an accessory – wore a relatively simply black gown with a long train and bunching at the waist.
It’s safe to say that Gaga even looked demure, as she flashed a particularly natural looking smile.
In a surprising twist, the Poker Face singer brought her father, Joe Germanotta, as her date. One of the main complaints about the singer’s highly stylised and arguably contrived front has been that she lacks humanity.
The mere reminder that Gaga – whose real name is Stefani Germanotta – even has family like the rest of us was probably a good choice. Joe looked proud to be standing beside his daughter at the star-studded event.
Gaga’s performance was the first of a night full of stars as the VMAs aired from Brooklyn’s Barclays Centre for the first time.
Justin Timberlake, fellow top nominees Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Katy Perry, Drake, Kanye West, Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke also performed. – Daily Mail.
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