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

[theleveebroke]

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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

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[scriptedending]

Vividly remember watching this performance live on the TV in the bedroom of our new (at the time) house. My husband and I weren't into her yet, and we were both like WTF?! as it went on, but we knew immediately she was gonna be *it*.

[matsaurus]

I remember the 9-9-99 promos from 1999. I have never got that earworm out of my system. This performance was probably one of the last great VMA performances that I can remember.

[genbu_no_miko24]

I remember thinking it was one of the best VMAs performances in a looooooooooong time cause it had losing popularity by then.

[irajaxon]

this bish got fake blood *in* her eye and everything.

the fame monster era was so fucking good.

[onadarknight]

the fame monster was kind of a defining moment in pop music, it was the moment all the pop girlies reformulated themselves to keep up with Gaga's theatrics, and it marked the beginning of a really fun era in pop music that lasted until around 2012.

[champagnexdream]

I think that tour was still the best concert I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen a lot

[hellicoptajuuce]

that era of pop was insane, she really had all the girls chasing after whatever she was doing. she had everyone waiting for her next look

[flyevita]

yes MTV saw us stans reminiscing about this iconic performance in the last vmas post 😩

[theleveebroke]

Big shoutout to jemgirl90 who taught me to embed youtube vids in LJ posts! ❤️

[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.