Lady Gaga Opens MTV Video Music Awards As Jo Calderone
Expectations could not have been higher for Lady Gaga’s opening performance. After all, this is a woman who routinely shows up to awards shows covered in meat or ensconced in an egg. Say what you will about her, but no two Gaga performances are alike, and this one promised to be a spectacle.
But it wasn’t Gaga who was onstage at the beginning of the show — it was her greaser alter-ego Jo Calderone, doing her best “Jersey Shore” accent and complaining about how “f*cking crazy” his girlfriend Gaga was. Britney Spears looked very confused. Everyone in the theater was eating it up, but the screaming was so loud and so frequent that “Calderone” could have been speaking in tongues and it wouldn’t have mattered. After some meta-commentary on the nature of fame and Gaga’s constant need to perform, she took a seat at the piano and reminded us how good her voice actually is.
She opened with her new single “Yoü and I,” and it was tempting to call the show underwhelming because nothing had been set on fire or blown up, but delivering a performance that was focused on her vocals and having Queen’s Brian May join her onstage on lead guitar was actually one of the more unexpected choices she could have made. Granted, 90% of the demographic watching the VMAs probably has no idea who May is, but points for effort! And Dave Grohl was super excited.
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