I don’t listen to Lady Gaga by choice, but if a song of hers comes on the radio I will usually let it play through. I can recognize that she is talented, but some of her antics scream, “You’re trying waaay too hard.” So, she was at SXSW and she also decided to perform. She also must have thought she was performing at The Gathering of the Juggalos. Via Hitfix:
The pop provocateur began her appearance at Stubb’s BBQ on Thursday night during the annual music festival and conference by roasting herself on a spit like a gutted pig as her dancers basted her with barbecue brushes — and then things got really weird.
Part S&M sex club homage, part affirmational session, the show sponsored by Doritos to benefit her Born This Way Foundation included moments meant to provoke and others meant to inspire.
Usually, Doritos inspires me to eat a whole bag on my couch and then realize I have no napkins nearby. The laziness that the Doritos hits me with leaves me in a predicament of having to get up to get a napkin, or licking it all off my fingers. What do I do? Trick question: I rub it all over the couch and let the dogs lick it off. Perfect!
Gaga’s set began with an attractive woman eating barbecued sausages in a provocative manner. Soon after completing the smoked meats portion of her hourlong show, Gaga invited friend Millie Brown on stage to assist on “Swine.” Brown, a “vomit painter,” proceeded to drink a full bottle of neon green liquid before forcing herself to throw up on the singer as she played drums.
The pair then climbed aboard a mechanical bull-like pig equipped with a ball gag and a keyboard. Gaga straddled Brown atop the pig and played the keys as they bucked in circles. Brown then painted Gaga with a black liquid that stained the singer’s skin throughout the performance.
Well, at least the person swallowing barbecued sausage wasn’t also the same person drinking green liquid and puking on her. I mean, we don’t want to be too gross about this, do we?
“I love my fans because they always let me be myself and they don’t care what anybody says,” Gaga told the crowd.
A little while later she set up her somber song “Dope” with a self-reflective moment.
“It’s so much easier to be yourself than it is to be somebody else,” she told the crowd as she played melancholy notes on the piano. “Because then you have to pretend to be someone else and like things that you don’t like and do stuff that you don’t want to do.”
Be yourself, kids. Grow up to be big and strong, sponsored by Doritos, and have some lady puke a Spencer’s Gifts glow wall on your head.
Via Hitfix
