Lady Gaga kicked storm to the MTV Video Music Awards stage on Sunday when she opened the show by performing her new single "Applause".
Nearly two weeks after dropping "Applause" a week early, the singer took the Barclays Center stage for a jazz hands-raising rendition of her single, the first off her upcoming album, ARTPOP.
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The all-white garment tore away to reveal a rhinestone-studded black catsuit.
Taking a page straight out of her music video, the predictably unpredictable performer stripped off her white, face-framing costume to reveal a Fosse-worthy showgirl get-up. (But that wasn't nearly as impressive as her new favorite paint that somehow ended up on her face in perfect precision mid-dance.)
The performance marks her first major return to the stage since a hip injury in February derailed her Born This Way Ball tour.
Unlike most of the show's other performers, Gaga has been out of the spotlight for the past year and therefore did not receive any VMA nominations. She joins Kanye West, Robin Thicke and a reunited 'NSYNC as some of the evening's headliners.
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The all-white garment tore away to reveal a rhinestone-studded black catsuit.
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Dancers helped transform the catsuit with the addition of a platinum-blond wig, a purple skirt, and a coordinating jacket with some serious shoulder pads.
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Finally, Gaga took off even the black catsuit in favor of a white clamshell bra and a thong covered in flowers.
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And the crowd, quite naturally, went wild.
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