Lady Gaga’s been having a bang-up 2017 so far, knocking ‘em dead at her Super Bowl halftime show and now rocking the Grammys with legendary rock band Metallica. She sported some new ink to commemorate the event.
On Sunday, before the show, Gaga instagrammed a black and white photo of a full back tattoo with the caption “The Moth & Metallica.” The moth image was paying tribute to the Metallica track “Moth Into Flame” from the 2016 record Hardwired…To Self Destruct that she performed with them during the Grammys. She also coined the hashtag #MetalliGa in honor of the unique collaboration.
That tat…fake, so fake. It looks like it was drawn on with a Sharpie – and it’s pretty awful. Besides, when did a moth tattoo ever look good on anyone? Gaga showed off the new “ink” on the Grammy red carpet while wearing her somewhat tragic Alex Ulichny get-up, which, along with gratuitous under-boob, also had an open back. This isn’t Gaga’s first Grammy-inspired tattoo. You may recall that for last year’s David Bowie tribute, she got a (permanent) tattoo of the singer in his iconic look from the cover of the 1973 album Aladdin Sane. Even though her side looks like a tattoo artist’s doodle pad, I do like the Bowie tat much better.
Gaga, as always, went all out for the show, donning a Metallica t-shirt and posing with the band before they took the stage. She posted the photo to Instagram with the caption, “Gonna listen to Metallica all day and party with my friends and then play with them at the Grammy’s.”
She was a good study, as I thought the performance was pretty awesome. Full confession: I just watched the clip of this performance and the clip of Adele’s George Michael tribute, because I don’t have cable. I, apparently, didn’t miss much. Gaga’s vocals actually helped the song, as Metallica hasn’t put out anything good for a few albums (IMHO, of course). She was great, the music was great, the performance rocked, except for James Hetfield’s microphone issues. The background dancers were distractingly awful though – but not so distracting that I missed seeing shots of Gaga’s back where there was no moth tattoo to be seen. Case closed.
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FULL PERFORMANCE!
Aquí la presentación completa de Metallica y Lady Gaga en los #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/Ttg8FsXHaD— Fest Jumpers (@FestJumpers) February 13, 2017
James was obviously not happy about the technical mishaps (and the fact that presenter Laverne Cox failed to introduce them with Lady Gaga), angrily throwing his guitar after the song was over. TMZ later reported that a most likely now-unemployed stagehand accidentally unplugged James’ microphone before the band took the stage. He might have also been miffed because his band’s song “Hardwired” lost the Grammy for Best Rock Song to David Bowie’s “Blackstar” (deservedly though, if you ask me.)
A pissed off James Hetfield tosses his guitar 😡😡😡😡😡 #Metallica #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/6BXzFvnFZR
— Troy Hughes™ (@TommySledge) February 13, 2017
Gaga modeled a more subdued look for the Grammy after party at Hollywood club The Peppermint Room, where she boogied with John Travolta (how very random) while her new beau, agent Christian Carino, looked on. Party guests told People that Gaga and Christian were low-key at the party, avoiding being photographed together but were spotted “cuddling at the bar and showing off some PDA.”
I’m glad Gaga is having a good year and that she may have rebounded nicely in the romance department. Even though I think the under-boob/fake tat look was a “miss” (they can’t all be winners), I still love that Lady Gaga likes to change things up constantly and I personally can’t wait to see what she does next. Sadly, I’m going to miss her in concert because her North American tour dates have already sold out. Damn.
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Can someone tell me why Gaga and Metallica were paired. Seems rather random (and as a metal fan I was not impressed.)
Exactly. And the whole performance was terrible. No vocals from James and Gaga’s schlocky bouncing and snarling was just ridiculous. I’m embarrassed for them. As a longtime Metallica fan, none of this made any sense. And don’t get me started on those dancers, half of which seemed like leftovers from a Grunge era video. She thinks she can do it all. She can’t.
Eh, I can deal with the tattoo. She’s so extra to begin with that seeing her have a little fun with a fake tattoo is almost a relief. As much as I disliked the Ulichney outfit (mostly the design of the top – skin is fine at the Grammy’s, but it’s clearly not designed in mind with a woman who has any breasts on her at all), I really dug her makeup on the red carpet. Very on point for the rock ‘n’ roll look.
I honestly would have side-eyesd her so hard if she’d actually gotten that tattoo, because since when has she ever cared about Metallica apart from Sunday?
She’s actually a pretty big Metal fan, from what I’ve heard.
She’s a huge metal fan and has talked about it a lot. Judas Priest is her favorite.
Gaga looked really pretty. Lady Gaga’s sharpie moth tat looks better than some guy’s phoenix tat.
First thing I thought of when I saw the moth, “See Ben, …..?..”
I like her look on the red carpet. The hair, makeup and the top half of her top. I’m not too sure what should have followed that (boots are mandatory for a rocker look) but that’s why I’m not paid millions and get to wear costumes.
Does she have any authentic self? Every time she’s around another artist she just takes on that attribute of that artist. There’s no essential “Gaga” underneath, and that bugs me and just always reeks of desperation to me.
She reminds me of the kind of woman who becomes obsessed with whatever her boyfriend is into, only to completely forget about it when the relationship is over, and has no interests of her own.
I’ve listened to Joanne, her album. There’s some good songs on it, but only a few that stick with me. I actually like the first single Perfect Illusion. It’s just not that catchy. And after a few listens I’ve never gone back to the album.
But, overall, I hate this Americana shtick she’s doing, and a kind of twang in places on the album. I hated how she was using her Aunt Joanne’s young death to pimp this album. She sang some of the songs in more of a grating tone. There are some prettier songs on the album, though. But overall, the album doesn’t knock me over. Her fans seem happy with it, though.
I hate John Wayne, because her song about wanting a real man, a redneck, is so fake on her, and it rubs me the wrong way these days. Because I know those guys are Donald Trump voters. LOL
Wait, Lady Gaga has more sense about tattoos than Ben Affleck?
She was just promoting the performance with that tattoo; don’t see the big deal about it.
You can get tickets. Scalpers bought up a lot, so it’s third-party sellers you go through, but at jacked-up prices.. But those prices will go down the closer you get to the concert and they need to unload the tickets. Plus, I imagine, hopefully, some tickets were held back and will be released. Just keep checking.
Gaga’s ‘resurgence’ feels inorganic to me. Like she sold her soul to someone who agreed to make her a star again. Her new album isn’t getting a ton of play, and I am highly skeptical that her tour is truly sold out considering how poor her sales were last time. Someone is trying to make Gaga happen, and it’s not on the strength of her actual product.
The whole thing reeked of desperation from both sides. Metallica trying to show the kids they’re still cool, Gaga trying to gain some Metal cred and trying out yet another look/act which just doesn’t feel authentic. As for something nice, her current face looks good though, she should stop here.
I had the deepest Sigh Of tiredness for these antics
The thing that stood out to me about their (awful, IMO) performance was Gaga’s super rehearsed dance moves…it looked so inauthentic 👎🏻
Agree! Been to a million metal shows. I don’t know WHAT she was doing with all that gyrating and stunted movement, but sweetie, that’s not metal. I had shades of Spinal Tap through the whole thing. Total cringe.
I can never help it – when Ga Ga dances and performs I just see Edith Prickly. If you don’t know who that is, you probably do – just please you tube Edith Prickly dancing…………..Or like – someone’s Mom dancing. A mom doing her best sexy rocking dancing for sure – but still Mom dancing.
Please watch………..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmfLB4bsjcQ You’ll be really happy you did………………………………
Thank God it wasn’t real!! Her other tats are all so cool & creative & meaningful. This would just be weird.
I love her makeup, though. She looks so pretty!