Hero worship aside, the new album 'Born This Way' is out on Monday (!!!) and I'm in a real Gaga place right now. Expect more posting of this calibre on Monday btw. Anyway, I've been listening to songs from the new album all week, watched her fabulous set at Radio 1's Big Weekend on Saturday and was enthralled by her performance on the Graham Norton show last week. Let's face it, we love her as much for her crazy costumes and outlandish stunts as we do for her music right? Gaga is the whole package. So here is my countdown of my
TOP 5 FAVOURITE GAGA MOMENTS (so far):
5. Meat and Greet
At number five is the notorious "meat dress" Gaga wore at 2010's VMA's. Probably her most famous outfit to date, the outfit included a dress, headpiece, shoes and purse made of raw meat. My first reaction was disgust but then I came to appreciate how gutsy this outfit was (literally). People still talk about it months later (just look at me now!). And if Gaga was brave enough to walk around all night smelling like a slaughterhouse, she certainly deserved the publicity. Although I wouldn't have wanted to sit next to her!
4. Graveyard Shift
Gaga certainly made an entrance at Radio 1's Big Weekend last Sunday night. After arriving on stage half an hour late, by which time I was almost through the roof with excitment, she emerged froma coffin carried on stage by her dancers. As if that weren't crazy enough, when the lid came down, Gaga was wearing a pregnancy suit to perform the title track from her new album, Born This Way. An interesting juxtaposition of life and death - and definitely worth the wait. 
3. Egg-cellent
At number three is another interesting stunt ahead of the release of the new album. Gaga arrived at this year Grammy's encased in a giant alien-like egg, which she was reported to have been 'incubating' in for THREE HOURS before 'hatching' on stage to perform her single Born This Way. The egg was carried down the red carpet by attendants. Gaga was nominated for 6 awards and scooped 3, but if there was an award for the best entrance she would definitely have left the other hopefuls with egg on their faces.
2. Bloody Good
I think the moment I realised how much I loved Gaga was when I first saw her performance at the 2009 VMA's. Mother Monster did a stunning performance of Paparazzi, towards the end of which she threw herself down at a piano for a frenetic bit of playing. Beautiful as that was, it wasn't until she rose from the instrument that the full effect of her perfomance was appreciated - a gasp eminated from the audience as they saw that Gaga was 'bleeding'. She stumbled across the stage, blood pouring down her bare stomach and staining her white outfit, clutching at the 'wound'. She fell down, and was encircled by her white-clad dancers who, after a bit of screaming, hoisted her into the air hanging by one hand, and the cameras clicked away until the very end. A stunning performance with a meaning - sacrificing yourself for art, the media 'eating people up' like hungry vultures, etc etc. Poignant, powerful and utterly amazing.
1. Ring-a-ding-ding
I love all of Gaga's video's but Telephone takes the biscuit. The day after this video was released, I was sat in Higher English when my teacher (a man who was a few months from retirement I might add) was talking about suspended disbelief or something like that in Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' when he said, as an example: "Last night I was watching TV when the new music video from a singer called Lady Gaga came on. She was in a female prison, and she and the other prisoners were dancing about in heels and lingerie. And I thought... I buy this." Aside from that, it's a fantastic video - if you haven't seen it (and why not?), it features Gaga going to prison where, after a quick lesbian kiss and an ingenious use for old coke cans as hair rollers, she is bailed out by Beyonce. They drive through America in a bright yellow Pussy Wagon, poison Beyonce's nasty boyfriend (and everyone else in the diner as well) and have a little dance amongst the corpses. It's genius. The costumes are fab, the song itself is pure Gaga-tastic, and the video features some real gems you'll be repeating for days to come - Beyonce: "You know Gaga, trust is like a mirror. You can fix it if its broken." Gaga: "But you can still see the cracks in that mother-fucker's reflection". Ring ring, it's for you Gaga - we love you!
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