The new video for Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" premiered today, and it's all the right amounts of crazy you’d expect from Gaga: A sci-fi setting with Slim Jim monsters that do a few "Thriller" zombie moves, a few shots of a bare-faced Gaga, these shoes and some human trafficking thrown in for good measure.

In the past, we've found her relentless ploys for attention pretty exhausting ("Ugh, can she try any harder?"), but this music video really makes us appreciate everything Gaga actually brings to pop music.

She's exciting to watch, plain and simple. Sure, her theatrics might cause a few eye-rolls, and she definitely isn't breaking any pop music conventions, but while Britney's out there making the same old boring video, we need someone like Gaga to really bring it. To put actual thought and care into her product so that it feels alive.

So keep on being a weirdo, Gaga. Will it bother us? Yeah, sometimes. But other times we really do need a pop star in tranny makeup to wear a polar bear rug/cape and start some stuff on fire.

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Monsters make us think of vampires, which make us think of New Moon (duh). Only 10 more days until the stills in our New Moon Rising gallery come to life.

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It takes more than a revealing outfit and a hot body to be Megan Fox. It takes a mouthful of inappropriate sound bites.

Lady Gaga is well on her way.

Known for wearing little more than a leotard—giant hats excluded—the pop star was honored Monday with the Stylemaker Award at the 13th annual Accessories Council Excellence Awards. She didn't disappoint when she donned one of her hefty signature lace headpieces.

However, when she finally lifted the veil to speak, what came out was a Fox-worthy (not to be confused with Jeff Foxworthy) phrase, pointing out her favorite accoutrement to any outfit. It wasn't quite what we expected.

"I think we all must remember that the ultimate accessory is the condom," she told the audience, according to the New York Post.

The difference between the two hot shooting stars? Gaga was said to have forgone the meal at the fancy event and played with her Barbie doll at the table instead. Something tells us Megan wouldn't take it that far.

Or would she?

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Both Megan and Gaga should be considered Fashion Police all-stars, don't you think?

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Well, look who it is! Lady Gaga accepting her Stylemaker Award at the 13th annual Accessories Council Excellence Awards. Is she wearing something crazy?

Yes, of course.

But really, what else do we expect from Gaga? A Marc Jacobs outfit with the underwear on the outside, an Erickson Beamon lace headpiece, an Afro wig, all that covered in white powder and topped off with a creepy hand pose—it's just part of the never-ending Gaga experience.

It's all gone so far past the point of "OMG, look at her! What a unique snowflake this commercial pop artist is..." to just plain normal. Maybe that's what she wants, though? That way when we're least expecting it, she'll pop up in jeans and a T-shirt and seriously shock us all so bad the whole world will just stop.

In the meantime, we'll get more Gaga as she's now a M.A.C spokeslady. Cannot escape the Gaga.

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While Lady Gaga is essentially exempt from Fashion Police fines, these people aren't!

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The past year or so of Lady Gaga dressing up like a self-important performance artist is finally paying off. The "Poker Face" singer is being given a fashion award.

Marc Jacobs will honor Lady Gaga Monday night with the Stylemaker Award at the 13th annual Accessories Council Excellence Awards. That's right, she's officially an Accessories Stylemaker.

Congratulations!

One day she might even be a regular fashion stylemaker, but hopefully not because then she might start thinking she’s influencing the world more than she actually is.

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Celebrate Lady Gaga's craziness with our Fashion Spotlight gallery.

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Taylor Swift just got six more potential chances to deliver an uninterrupted acceptance speech.

And, for the sake of the inevitable dead-horse-beating comparison: Kanye West scored a whopping zero chances to not let her finish. That's right, kids. Cut off America's sweetheart and you're as good as sitting out the next awards season. Or at least the 2009 American Music Awards.

The random triumvirate of Paula Abdul, Adam Lambert and Snoop Dogg announced the nominees for the AMAs this morning, and the country cutie led the pack with six nominations, including a nod for the nightcapping Artist of the Year Award.

Joining Swift at the forefront of the nominations is Michael Jackson, who scored a posthumous five nods, including Artist of the Year and Favorite Male Artist in both the pop/rock and soul/R&B genres.

Rounding out the nominated pack are Eminem, who nabbed four honors, and Beyoncé, the Black Eyed Peas, Kings of Leon, T.I. and Lady Gaga, who took home three apiece.

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When you're sharing the stage with President Barack Obama, you kind of have to wear clothes. 

And that was the unlikely matchup as the 44th president of the United States joked that he was the supporting act for the oft-pantless Lady Gaga, who performed at the Human Rights Campaign dinner Saturday night, before the National Equality March in Washington, D.C.

"It is a privilege to be here tonight to open for Lady Gaga," said the Nobel Peace Prize-winning president. "I've made it."

The diva ditched her wacky masks and leotards for a more serious black dress and John Lennon-esque shades as she performed the singer's "Imagine," changing the lyrics to reference Matthew Shepard's 1998 murder. 

The college student's death has been a rallying cry for the gay rights movement. His parents, Judy and Dennis Shepard, were honored with the Edward M. Kennedy National Leadership Award at the dinner. 

"I'm not going to play one of my songs tonight, because tonight is not about me," Gaga said before she sang and played a white grand piano. "It's about you."

Castmembers from Fox's Glee also performed. 

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See Lady Gaga's less conservative style in her Fashion Spotlight gallery.

Seriously, Saturday Night Live?

After waiting all night for musical guest Lady Gaga to pop up in some outrageous sketch and poke fun at the headline-grabbing Kanye West (it should have been inevitable, right?), SNL decided to insert the pantsless performer into "Deep House Dish," a recurring bit that never receives more than a chuckle from viewers—audience members included!

To spice things up, Lady G was joined onstage by none other than surprise superstar Madonna, and unfortunately, herein lies the problem.

The Gaga-Madonna pair-up should have been epic and should have stolen the show from funnyman host Ryan Reynolds, but the duo simply paraded around the stage looking uncharacteristically hot in some bondage-esque getups and engaged in a fake "who's the true Queen of Pop" smackdown. Spoiler alert: Neither of them won and they ended up using the old "Madonna kisses a girl" go-to.

Our fix? Madonna and Lady Gaga perform one of their musical superhits together, and somewhere in the mix Kanye gets mocked. Just a little bit.

The one highlight of the show had to be Scarlett Johansson joining her hubby onstage—and not just because these two are rarely seen together. ScarJo revived her 2007 SNL viral-video sensation as the Jersey girl in her dad's infomercials. And this time, she's selling porcelain fountains.

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This just in from the Who Didn't See That One Coming file: Lady Gaga's tour plans are continuing apace.

A day after the "Poker Face" singer and Kanye West called off their ill-timed Fame Kills joint tour, her ladyship confirmed that she would still be hitting the road sans a certain stage-jacking rapper.

"Still leaving on solo TOUR this nov.," she tweeted today. "Announcing next week. leaked next single is makin my ears bleed. Wait till you hear the real version ;)"

And while the closest thing to a party line this morning—coming courtesy of Gaga's longtime choreographer Lori Ann Gibson—was that the tour was canceled over "creative differences," the star had another equally P.C. answer ready to dish out today.

"It was a mutual decision," she said before picking up her Billboard Rising Star Award. "Kanye's going to take some time off. But the good news is that I'm going on tour in a few weeks."

Good news for one of them, that is.

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No Kermits were harmed in the making of Lady Gaga's outfits. We think. You might want to check out our Fashion Spotlight gallery just to make sure.

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Fame Kills is already dead.

The highly anticipated North American tour featuring pantsless wonder Lady Gaga and rapper turned VMAs pariah Kanye West has been canceled, promoter Live Nation confirmed Thursday.

Tickets will be refunded, and, we're guessing, very few questions will be answered.

The pulled plug comes amid reports that Lady Gaga wanted out, though reps for both artists haven't given a reason for the switcheroo—Gaga's choreographer came closest by tweeting that "creative differences" were to blame—though fallout from West's ill-advised stunt during Taylor Swift's moment in the spotlight at the MTV Video Music Awards has to be at the front of everyone's mind.

The "Poker Face" singer showed some sympathy for West just a couple of days ago, calling him a "good guy" who still feels "so f--king bad" about what he did.

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If you were a part in the education of Lady Gaga at an early age, how would you feel about the current fruits of your labor?

Yeah, we're not sure either.

Teachers at the Convent of the Sacred Heart girls school in New York City, where a little Italian girl named Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta matriculated for several years, are shocked, according to the New York Post.

From her pantless outfits to her controversial staged death at the MTV Video Music Awards, there's not much a nun can really condone, whether Lady Gaga's work is considered art or not.

"When someone showed the nuns a video of her bloody performance at Sunday night's VMA Awards, the good sisters were not amused," a source tells the paper.

Were you?

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Lady Gaga followed up her VMAs appearance with a show at Marc Jacobs' Fashion Week afterparty!

The claws were out tonight at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.

First there were the ones Kanye West dug into Taylor Swift's big moment, then there was whatever caused Lady Gaga to get all bloodied up, then there was that thing Beyoncé Knowles wears when she's trying to be Sasha Fierce, and, of course, there were a few werewolves.

But the night didn't start out quite so barbed.

Madonna opened the show at Radio City Music Hall with a heartfelt speech about her relationship with Michael Jackson, as well as that of his fans. The highly anticipated tribute performance followed with well-known dancers (and So You Think You Can Dance choreographers) Mia Michaels, Laurie Anne Gibson, Wade Robson and recent Emmy winner Tyce Diorio doing the King of Pop's classic moves to a mix of "Thriller," "Bad" and "Smooth Criminal."

Then it was Janet Jackson's turn.

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