Video Of The Day: As ‘Mayhem’ Looms, Relive Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” Grammy Egg-celence
Crack open the time capsule to revisit the moment Lady Gaga proved she could hatch an era—and a queer anthem—all in one night.
With the 2025 Grammy Awards set for Sunday, February 2, we’re revisiting some queer and queer-adjacent performances from Grammys past that will never fall out of tune.
More than a decade ago, Lady Gaga arrived at the 2011 Grammys in an egg and emerged to deliver a performance that would cement Born This Way as a defining queer anthem. The song’s message of radical self-acceptance became an instant rallying cry, and in the years since, it has only grown in power.
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With Gaga teasing a new album this week titled Mayhem (set to drop March 7), the pop star just might retake the Grammy stage next year. But while we wait, here’s a look back at the performance that gagged us in all the right ways.
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