Ahead of the VMAs, MTV finally uploads Lady Gaga's iconic 2009 performance

[theleveebroke]

Click to view

An early career-establishing moment for Lady Gaga-her astonishing performance at the 2009 VMAs-has finally been acknowledged and uploaded by parent company MTV on YouTube. Fans have previously had to rely on bootleg recordings to share their infatuation

Comments

[donaestrangera]

It makes me sad that the VMAs went from this to a complete non-event now…

[genbu_no_miko24]

Funny enough by the time this show was airing the show had been losing steam. Gaga was really one of the last few good performances.

[donaestrangera]

I was too young and still in my religious parents’ household for all the most iconic VMAs, like the ones with Britney’s various iconic performances or the one with the Madonna/Britney/Xtina kiss so this one was really the only one I got to experience firsthand. In my mind I remembered a lot more blood lol!

The last VMA that I feel like got talked about offline was Miley and Robin Thicke and that was more than TEN YEARS AGO now wow! I decided to watch one a couple of years ago because I didn’t have anything else to do and I got so bored I just turned it off. Most pop stars these days don’t have an eye to create anything memorable or iconic.

[genbu_no_miko24]

Wait how old are you?

Miley was just embarrassing during that period. Granted I’ll give her credit for managing to rebrand and end up having success from doing less-scandalous activities lol. Sometimes I’m surprised by her success haha.

I got lucky I’ve been watching since 1999!! 1999-2005-ish were peak years cause going into the late 00s/early 10s a loooot of change happened in the industry and aloooota filler came in.

[donaestrangera]

Nnnnnn let’s just say I was still in elementary school and middle school throughout Britney’s reign and my parents controlled the TV, but I was in high school by the time Gaga did the Paparazzi performance and I knew how to find streams online!

Actually on the same topic, I distinctly remember me (by then an adult) and my cousins (one of them an adult and one of them a teenager) trying to watch Miley Cyrus’s VMA performance on the TV at their house. My aunt and my uncle (even more religious and less chill than my parents) were so scandalized they rushed to turn the TV OFF! I had to check the rest later online lol.

[genbu_no_miko24]

I was 10 when Britney debuted so we should be around the same age? Or at least 4-6 year age difference. I was 21 when Gaga performed.

Miley was so ridiculous. The only thing I remember saying to her credit was that she at least has stage presence compared to other more successful artists. *coughrihannacough*

[skeetertuskin]

This was the last time the show had not one but several quintessential "VMA moments". Gaga's performance, Kanye snatching Taylor's mic and Lil Mama gate crashing Jay Z's and Alicia Keys' performance.

[peddlestools]

oh my god i forgot that the lil mama thing was that night too

her pose at the end, arms crossed...