Mom Monster is in the home.
Although Woman Gaga is in the course of her “Mayhem” tour — and has a live performance later tonight at Madison Sq. Backyard — she made time amid the insanity to make an look at the MTV VMAs 2025.
The singer, 39, wore a puff-sleeved Marc Jacobs black and purple robe with extravagant all-over ruffles and lace to the ceremony, the place she accepted an award for artist of the yr.
“I want I might keep and watch all these superb performances, however I’ve to return to Madison Sq. Backyard,” she mentioned on the finish of her acceptance speech.
She accented her black mini-bangs and teased bun with a mauve and burgundy floral headpiece.
Her make-up — bleached brows, closely lined purple lips, and dramatic copper eyeshadow — added to the gothic glamour of the look.
Gaga is essentially the most nominated artist of the night time, main the cost with 12 nods. Her “Die With a Smile” collaborator, Bruno Mars, follows in her footsteps with 11 nominations.
Not solely is Gaga up for the night time’s largest award, video of the yr for the tune, which was the quickest ever to succeed in 2 billion streams on Spotify, however she’s additionally nominated within the classes of tune of the yr, finest collaboration, finest pop video, finest album, finest route for “Abracadabra” and extra.
Gaga is performing in NYC at Madison Sq. Backyard, whereas the awards present — which incorporates performances by Sabrina Carpenter, Ricky Martin, Mariah Carey and others — is underway at UBS Enviornment on Lengthy Island.
She kicked off the “Mayhem” world tour in July in Las Vegas, incorporating most of the identical spooky costumes and references to her decades-long profession in her epic April Coachella 2025 headlining efficiency.
The celebrity has at all times been a significant participant on the VMAs. She made her debut with an enormous splash, performing an epic and memorable rendition of “Paparazzi” that noticed her coated in pretend blood on stage in 2009.
She’s worn a few of her most iconic seems on the purple carpet over time, too, together with the enduring “meat gown” by Franc Fernandez she wore in 2010 to protest the army’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Inform” coverage. And in 2011, she got here wearing drag as her male alter ego, Jo Calderone.
The pop star has not made an look, nonetheless, since 2020’s digital purple carpet, the place she wore an array of COVID-19-inspired face masks and child blue hair to advertise her “Chromatica” album.
