The musician made a brief appearance at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards to accept Artist of the Year, but also won in the technical categories for Best Direction and Best Art Direction
Lady Gaga made it from UBS Arena to Madison Square Garden just in time to kick off her latest Mayhem Ball concert after making a brief stop at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards. The musician stayed for the beginning of the show to accept the award for Artist of the Year, but also won in the technical categories for Best Direction and Best Art Direction. When she hit the stage at MSG, she brought her three new VMAs trophies with her.
During “Perfect Celebrity,” a part of the set where Gaga rolls around in a box full of sand, she positioned the shiny silver Moon People as props. “Find my clone she’s asleep on the ceiling now/Can’t get me down,” she sang while thrusting one award towards the camera. “You love to hate me/I’m the perfect celebrity.” She threw handfuls of sand at the awards and choked out the skeleton positioned next to her. It was the kind of theatrics that made her VMAs history so unforgettable.
“Getting ready for the show, I thought how much it would mean to me to win this award tonight, and I cannot begin to tell you what this means to me,” Gaga told the VMAs audience on Sunday night. “I thought about what it means to be rewarded for being an artist, being rewarded for something that is already so rewarding.”
Gaga has 22 career wins at the MTV Video Music Awards out of 53 nominations. Earlier this year, she released her sixth studio album, Mayhem.
“I would say 2025 Lady Gaga is really inside of her artistry,” she previously told Rolling Stone. “I’m a lot more relaxed. I feel more comfortable in my own skin. I’ve fully integrated, I’m both Lady Gaga and Stefani at the same time. And that’s a different feeling. I used to always feel like I was playing two different people, and I would crash when I was doing either. Now, I really feel like myself.”
