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Gaga Performs in Drag for MTV Awards Show

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Posted on Aug 28, 2011

Lady Gaga sang her opening number at Sunday’s Video Music Awards in drag, confusing the hell out of a number of stars in attendance, including Britney Spears, who, mouth agape, looked like she had just walked in on her parents.

Before she got to the singing part, Gaga performed a monologue more than three minutes long, describing herself as Jo Calderone, the pop star’s jilted lover. The drag part wasn’t nearly as weird as the monologue itself, with lines like “She comes out of the shower still drippin’, still got the heels on! At first it was sexy, but now I’m just confused.” You’re not alone, Jo.  —PZS

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By greenernie80, August 31, 2011 at 8:24 am Link to this comment
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What.. oh.. I thought she/he was already in drag…

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By BigMachoHetroGuy, August 30, 2011 at 10:39 am Link to this comment
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She is a sick pervert! Fag!!! Trannies have no place in our God fearing righteous society!!!

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By Peter, August 30, 2011 at 5:24 am Link to this comment
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Please don’t put this stuff on here, dearest Truthdig!
HuffPost gradually degenerated into tabloid by posting stuff like this.

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By A Bird in the Hand, August 29, 2011 at 2:57 pm Link to this comment

This is why I quit looking at Alternet, etc..~~
(and yes ONE Huffington Post is enough..)

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By PatrickHenry, August 29, 2011 at 2:40 pm Link to this comment

Whatever the public wants.

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By Anarcissie, August 29, 2011 at 1:42 pm Link to this comment

I think it’s charming that one can still shock celebrities and get a round of abuse from vapid blog-doggers merely by appearing in drag.  So mid-20th-century!  But I guess if it works, it works.

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By LadyMorrow, August 29, 2011 at 12:10 pm Link to this comment

This ho is a bo. Copying Madonna doesn’t seem very original and IF she had any talent at all, it would have separated her from Madonna, not connected her. True talent is beyond the McCulture of today.

Poor Britney, the first time I really feel sorry for her!

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By SarcastiCanuck, August 29, 2011 at 12:08 pm Link to this comment
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I hear next year she is going to come out as Vincent van Gogh and his twin brother and cut off both of her ears.Then maybe,I’ll buy one of her c.d.‘s.Then again,maybe not…

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By Joestatler, August 29, 2011 at 11:27 am Link to this comment
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Please, Truthdig. Not you too.  One Huffington Post is enough.

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By Gmonst, August 29, 2011 at 11:18 am Link to this comment

I guess an attempt on a Andrew Dice Clay impersonation.  Or just an opportunity to talk about herself.  Gaga seems to have an almost pathological obsession with herself.

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By lasmog, August 29, 2011 at 9:21 am Link to this comment

Good for Gaga, giving the squealing girls in the audience something to actually think about.  The expressions on some of the brain-dead celebrities in the audience is priceless.

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By Anarcissie, August 29, 2011 at 7:50 am Link to this comment

Don’t tell me Lady Gaga is too smart for all you powerful-minded intellectuals!

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By David, August 29, 2011 at 7:14 am Link to this comment
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OK, cute idea but that monologue went on waay too long and felt weirdly megalomaniacal, her talking about herself in the third person.

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