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Ten Years of the Applause VMA Performance


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It's been ten years since she ate this. Honestly this performance now in 2023 seems equally remembered as the Miley Cyrus performance. It may have not seemed that way in 2013, but this has stood the test of time.

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TEANUS
40 minutes ago, Maxine Puth said:

I remember this was supposed to be like really dark or something until VMAs shut it down :messga:

Yup! Bloody torture scenes, haunting imagery (the “wild” men, etc.), Gaga flying. We were robbed

https://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/85190950.html

 

British social ladies with upturned pinkies, glasses clinking // xoxoTEANUS
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:saladga: What a horrible quality on that video :smh:

Wonder why MTV removed (or made private) the official upload... :duck:

However, here's enjoyable quality: 

 

Edit. Nvm, found the MTV UK one with 9.3M views: 

 

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ALGAYDO
10 minutes ago, Maxine Puth said:

This would’ve been so cool, but I can see why it got denied and honestly maybe the whole blood stuff would have been a bit extra for… Applause :max: 

Wasn’t it rumored that Aura was supposed to be the original lead? It would fit with this concept a LOT better than Applesauce tbh 

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53 minutes ago, ALGAYDO said:

Wasn’t it rumored that Aura was supposed to be the original lead? It would fit with this concept a LOT better than Applesauce tbh 

I wanna agree, but ultimately we did get a chopped up and revised version of this treatment anyway. Namely the reference photos for the white set background, Gaga walking across the stage w/ noise in the back before the song can begin, the red carpet idea of referencing her past era looks, etc went in the final performance. She did re-use the flying idea for festival performances of Aura though, and the "Saturn devouring his son" visual reference wound up going towards that weird painting she did for Tony Bennett back in 2014 :rip:

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8 hours ago, Maxine Puth said:

This would’ve been so cool, but I can see why it got denied and honestly maybe the whole blood stuff would have been a bit extra for… Applause :max: 

They still should have gone with the original red carpet concept. Lady Gaga and all her dancers were supposed to dress like her, and you wouldn't be able to tell which one was her until the performance I think.

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