LOS ANGELES — Lady Gaga prompted many jaws to drop during the MTV Video Music Awards Sunday when she channeled her foul-mouthed, whiskey-drinking, chain-smoking male alter-ago, Jo Calderone, onstage and even in the restroom.
“She left me! She said it always starts out good and then the guys — meaning me, I’m one of the guys — we get crazy,” the singer, channeling her Calderone character, said in a monologue at the award show.
“I did. I got crazy. But she’s f*ck*ng crazy too, right?” she added.
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During the performer’s multiple onstage appearances, she continued to find the need to reinforce that “Gaga wasn’t here tonight” and that “Calderone was accepting the award on her behalf,” though she scored wins for her music videos in the female category.
The 25-year-old received the MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video and the prize for Best Video With a Message for her hit “Born This Way.”
But Gaga’s drag routine was not just for the cameras. An insider told FOXNews.com the performer took Calderone to the men’s bathroom.
Perhaps the most awkward moment of all came when Calderone presented Britney Spears with the Video Vanguard VMA — after declaring that growing up she used to “touch herself” while looking at posters of Spears and then propositioned the pop icon for a kiss.
Spears pulled away from the close encounter, and later seemed unsure of how to handle the situation while keeping full composure.
And while Gaga’s rep was not immediately available for comment, some critics argue that she went too far.
“Gaga’s shtick wore out its welcome in the first two minutes. In her effort to be original and run away from the cube hat wearing copycats, like Katy Perry, I think she might have pushed the audience too far,” said television and music producer, Edward Paige.
“People originally embraced Gaga because in all her quirkiness was authentic in that she didn’t fit in. But stepping outside the more comfortable vixen role could hurt her. Does MTV or its throngs of little girls’ fans want a diva that looks like Ralph Macchio doing a Lenny Bruce routine? I doubt it.”
According to other industry experts, Gaga could probably benefit from taking a leaf out of fellow winner Adele’s book.
“Gaga’s persistence as ‘Jo Calderone’ degraded an otherwise enjoyable VMAs, and stood in stark contrast to tasteful and classy presentations by the likes of Adele. Gaga’s performance art philosophy may excuse this, but it remains a poor execution of what, at this point, falls squarely into [a] predictably random pattern of behavior,” added Jed Smith, head of music composition company, Beta Fish.
“If Gaga’s going to be a guy, she should be the biggest bear on the stage, not some sleazy beta karate kid knock off!” he added.
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