{"id":2005344,"date":"2025-09-08T03:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T03:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2005344"},"modified":"2025-09-08T03:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T03:52:08","slug":"lady-gagas-performance-at-the-2025-mtv-vmas-was-total-mayhem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/lady-gagas-performance-at-the-2025-mtv-vmas-was-total-mayhem\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Gaga\u2019s Performance at the 2025 MTV VMAs Was Total Mayhem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<hr class=\"my-4\"\/>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong> THE RUNDOWN<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lady Gaga stunned during her performance at the 2025 MTV VMAs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The <em>Mayhem<\/em> singer sang \u201cAbracadabra\u201d and \u201cThe Dead Dance.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She pre-recorded her VMAs performance because she needed to be at Madison Square Garden tonight for the Mayhem Ball tour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr class=\"my-4\"\/>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lady Gaga was able to be <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a65878452\/lady-gaga-mtv-vmas-2025-performance-video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:in two places at once;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">in two places at once<\/a> this Sunday night. She performed at both her Mayhem Ball tour show at Madison Square Garden <em>and<\/em> at the 2025 MTV VMAs, thanks to a pre-recorded performance in which the star sang \u201cAbracadabra\u201d and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/music\/a65968794\/lady-gaga-the-dead-dance-wednesday-explained\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Dead Dance;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Dead Dance<\/a>.\u201d She did, however, make a live appearance at the ceremony earlier in the show to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a65879267\/lady-gaga-mtv-vmas-2025-acceptance-speech-transcript\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:accept her award;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">accept her award<\/a> for Artist of the Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Watch her full performance <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/vmas\/status\/1964872567556088069\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was announced that Gaga would be joining the show on August 30, when the VMAs <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DN-0xvvkXd4\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:posted;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">posted<\/a> on Instagram, \u201cThere will be magic in the air at the 2025 #VMAs because @LADYGAGA IS PERFORMING! \ud83e\ude84 You won\u2019t want to miss her return, September 7 on @cbstv and @paramountplus!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">MTV also wrote on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MTV\/status\/1961791205571744082\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">X<\/a>, \u201cNeed all of my fellow Little Monsters to COME TO THE FRONT! Why, you ask?! Oh, because MOTHER MONSTER HERSELF IS PERFORMING AT THE 2025 #VMAs!!!! @ladygaga Don\u2019t miss a second of all the MAYHEM that will be caused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In February, the star discussed her latest album with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/uk\/life-and-culture\/culture\/a63631038\/lady-gaga-abracadabra\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ELLE UK;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ELLE UK<\/a>, explaining how meaningful it was to release new music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cFirstly, it\u2019s an absolute privilege and honor to be able to release music that so many people have been so excited to hear,\u201d she shared. \u201cI feel really honored to be a singer and a songwriter and a producer of music that will be, if you so choose, the soundtrack to a moment or a bit of time in your life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She continued, \u201cIt was hard at first to name the album <em>Mayhem<\/em> because I so much don\u2019t want that feeling to be real. I am also a hopeful person. I\u2019m also somebody that is a dreamer, but what I think I ultimately arrived at is, it\u2019s all of the fractures of who we are and the fractures in the world and the mayhem of that brokenness that ultimately teaches us the power of joy, and dancing and crying and laughing and listening to music and holding your friends and your family and repeat!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>You Might Also Like<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE RUNDOWN Lady Gaga stunned during her performance at the 2025 MTV VMAs. The Mayhem singer sang \u201cAbracadabra\u201d and \u201cThe Dead Dance.\u201d She pre-recorded her VMAs performance because she needed to be at Madison Square Garden tonight for the Mayhem Ball tour. Lady Gaga was able to be in two places at once this Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2005345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[365549,365619,25405,306299,361568,344855,25890],"class_list":["post-2005344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-abracadabra","tag-christopher-polk","tag-lady-gaga","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-mayhem","tag-mtv-vmas","tag-performance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lady-Gagas-Performance-at-the-2025-MTV-VMAs-Was-Total.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2005345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}