Gaga’s Meat Dress Was REAL

By Mark Lorenz on September 15th, 2010

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If there’s one thing that can illustrate what a strange place we are in musically, one of the biggest stories to come out of the VMA’s is that Lady Gaga wore a dress made of meat.

Nobody was talking about Florence and the Machine killing a song live while everyone else lip-synched and posed. Nobody was talking about how the “New Artist” category consisted of people who wouldn’t be around and kicking in ten years, or how stilted and conservative it was – despite it being on one of the supposedly most rock n’ roll and rebellious television stations catering to a wild youth demo – they talked about a freaking dress.

And it was revealed that, yes. It was real meat. Meaning whoever Lady Gaga sat next to had to be inundated with costume changes and a real stench permeating the vicinity of wherever she sat – more so than the usual Parliaments and carmex.

The designer picked up the meat from from his local butcher shop that morning, sowed it onto a dress, and put Gaga in it.

Here’s the thing about contemporary celebrity – if you had to wear ridiculous heels and dresses of meat to keep a global audience rapt with attention – would it really be worth it?

The VMA’s netted the highest audience share MTV has had in a while, upwards of 11 million viewers.