The superstar arrived at the Grammy Awards encased in a giant egg – and borne aloft by four scantily clad bearers, including supermodel Anne Vyalitsyna.
Either Gaga, 24, had finally gone, well, gaga. Or she was slyly sending herself up by referencing one of mock rockumentary Spinal Tap’s most famous scenes – when Derek the bass player gets stuck in a ridiculous plastic pod.
With no apparent sense of irony, the New Jersey nymphette spent three hours inside the plastic egg during rehearsals “getting into character”. According to one straight-faced aide, Gaga was “in an embryonic state and won’t be born until the performance”.
Moments before going on stage, she Tweeted [who knew embryos carried Blackberrys?]: “This is Nicola, Haus of Gaga: Gaga is in incubation. Tonight’s performance is in collaboration with Hussein Chalayan and House of Mugler. X.”
Pretentious? Vous? Once on stage, she “hatched” from the by-now glowing egg – from whence she had avoided suffocation by frantically sucking on an oxygen tank – to perform her rather underwhelming new “gay anthem” Born This Way (geddit?).
Dubbed a Madonna-lite ditty – think a Eurovision slaughtering of Express Yourself – the brilliantly hyped performance must have left granny Madge chewing the skirting boards as she watched from [the care] home.
Wearing a yolk-coloured Latex bra, skirt and revealing a bare stomach, Gaga completed the look with black lipstick and a long, pink side-ponytail. It was Madonna circa Blonde Ambition tour. Or a sonic Su Pollard.
She later accepted three Grammys – best female pop vocal and best video, both for Bad Romance, and best pop vocal album for The Fame Monster – dressed in a dominatrix outfit.
And she left organisers hitting the mute button as she collected her best album gong with an: “Oh, s***!” The yolk’s on you Gaga.
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