Lady Gaga knows why the caged bird sings in Grammys performance of 'Abracadabra'

Blinding achromatic lights flickered, giving the assemblage conscionable tiny flashes of Lady Gaga arsenic she took the 68th Grammy Awards signifier Sunday.

Gaga’s dependable overpowered Crypto.com Arena, her robotic movements captivating the assemblage arsenic she performed a stone mentation of her Grammy-winning deed “Abracadabra.”

The “Mayhem” vocalist is simply a Grammys signifier veteran, having performed much than fractional a twelve times. She picked up 8 nominations for this year’s awards show, including medium of the twelvemonth for “Mayhem.”

Gaga donned a reddish and achromatic fur long-sleeve apical that flowed into a agelong achromatic skirt, a cage-like dome concealing her head.

Her oculus interaction hardly wavered during the performance, her eyes often wide arsenic they stared straight into the camera. The camera regularly abruptly panned to her musicians, who held the aforesaid wide-eyed look arsenic Gaga.

She leaned connected a agelong achromatic cane portion singing, which she astatine 1 constituent picked up and pointed astatine the assemblage similar a gun.

The vocalist had already taken location 2 awards starring up to her performance, including creation popular signaling and remixed recording. Only minutes aft leaving the stage, Gaga won popular vocal medium for “Mayhem.”

Gaga trailed down lone Kendrick Lamar, who led with 9 nominations. The 2 megastars were acceptable to spell caput to caput for immoderate of the night’s biggest awards.

“Abracadabra,” a pb opus connected the album, received nominations for opus of the year, grounds of the twelvemonth and creation popular performance. “Disease,” besides connected the singer’s latest album, was up for popular solo performance.

Gaga’s 2024 album, “Harlequin,” was nominated for accepted popular vocal album, which mislaid to “A Matter of Time” by Laufey.

“Mayhem,” Gaga’s seventh solo workplace album, was released successful March, a period earlier the popular prima headlined Coachella past year. Gaga’s Grammy show comes successful the mediate of her astir yearlong Mayhem Ball tour, which volition extremity successful April.

The popular prima has won 14 Grammys, including popular duo/group show for “Die With a Smile” with Bruno Mars past year. Gaga has yet to triumph for medium oregon opus of the year, contempt being nominated 4 times successful each class before. She’s successful the moving for some Sunday.

Last year, the vocalist joined Bruno Mars connected the Crypto.com Arena signifier to execute “California Dreamin’” successful a touching tribute to Los Angeles aft the devastating wildfires. The duo’s “Die With a Smile” was nominated doubly that year, including for opus of the year.

Gaga performed a tribute to Tony Bennett successful 2022 and her Grammy-winning opus “Shallow” successful 2019. She besides took the signifier successful 2018, singing “Joanne” and “Million Reasons.” Her first-ever show connected the Grammys signifier was successful 2010, singing a duet with Elton John and a medley of her deed songs from her debut album, “The Fame.”

Gaga kicked disconnected 2026 with circuit dates successful Japan. During a show successful precocious January, the vocalist delivered an affectional code denouncing Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids successful the U.S. and the Trump administration’s assertive migration enforcement strategy.

“In a mates of days, I’m going to beryllium heading home, and my bosom is aching reasoning astir the people, the children, the families each implicit America who are being mercilessly targeted by ICE,” Gaga said, according to video footage of the event. “I’m reasoning astir each of their symptom and however their lives are being destroyed close successful beforehand of us.”