From the time Lady Gaga jumped off a roof to the horniest Oscars there ever were, here’s what we can’t get out of our heads
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Getty Images Ciao, bellissima. If you need something to help pass the time until you can finally escape your family on this lovely Thanksgiving day to go watch Stefani Germanotta earn an Oscar in House of Gucci, welcome. In the House of Cut, we too have been counting down the minuti until this high-fashion, high-camp, highly anticipated spectacle in which Mother Monster stars as Perfect Villain Patrizia Gucci.
The second is the segment with then-89-year-old English actress June Brown. She starred on a soap called EastEnders. It happens often that on Graham’s couch there’s a mix of world-famous Americans sat alongside British entertainers who are very well-known on their rather small island. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. This works. From the moment Brown arrives on camera with her purse, coat, and cigarette , Gaga is her No. 1 fan.
Was it her clawed hands as she lept from that roof or the way she moved her legs and arms like she was crawling as she descended that made me scream with joy? I couldn’t tell you. To go from “God Bless America” to “Poker Face” is a choice, and it was the right one. She went on to sing only bangers, like “Born This Way,” “Telephone,” and “Just Dance.
You get the point. If you felt a frisson of excitement when Cooper took Gaga’s hand and led her up the stairs from their front-row seats at the Dolby Theatre, that frisson came backed by evidence. Gaga starts by singing a stripped-down version of “Poker Face,” laying on the floor of what looks like a haunted mansion. When “Paparazzi” begins, it feels like a darker version of an already dark song. The styling and dancing are unlike everything Gaga’s peers have been doing on stage. There’s a wheelchair, there’s a cane, there’s a piano. People are thinking the whole thing is either avant-garde or weird as hell.
The Topless Business Meeting First thing’s first: If you’ve made it this far without watching the Lady Gaga documentary, Gaga: Five Foot Two on Netflix, stop what you’re doing and get back to me. There are so many good moments in it — Lady Gaga crying at a baptism and then smoking a blunt outside the church after; Lady Gaga reheating chicken in a thong onesie; Lady Gaga ranting about Madonna — but it is also an objectively good portrait of Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanottta.
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