Pop Goes Gaga It was clear from the jump that Lady Gaga wasn't your typical pop star, but it wasn't until she released the epic music video for "Bad Romance," the lead single off the 2009 EP The Fame Monster, that the idea of pop music as art project crystallized into full view. The five-minute clip was just the right kind of bonkers, presaging a career that would push the genre to its limits. From there we got the Warholian excesses of "Telephone," the affirming and anthemic "Born This Way