Lady Gaga Includes Nod to Her MTV VMA Wins into MSG Performance

Lady Gaga paid tribute to her triple VMAs win during her Madison Square Garden performance on Sunday Night!

Mother Monster took home the artist of the year award, best collaboration, best direction, and best art direction at the MTV Video Music Awards, which took place at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York.

After scooping the first award of the evening for best artist, Gaga, 39, dashed across the city to perform the final show on her “Mayhem “tour at Madison Square Garden (MSG). However, her VMAs were present at MSG, as eagle-eyed fans noticed she incorporated the Moonman statues into her performance of “Perfect Celebrity.”

The three silver statues were part of the tune’s set, which also included skeletons and skulls in a sandpit as she sang, “You can’t get me down, You love to hate me, I’m the perfect celebrity.”

Earlier that evening back the UBS Arena, the “Disease” singer dedicated her artist of the year win to the audience and her partner, Michael Polansky.

“I cannot begin tell you what this means to me,” the singer said, dressed in a baroque black gown. “I hope as you navigate through the mayhem of daily life, you are reminded of the importance of the art of your life, that you can count on yourself and your simple skills to keep you whole.”

“Being an artist is a discipline, a craft meant for reaching into someone’s heart, where it grows its roots, and reminding them to dream. Being an artist is a responsibility to make the audience smile, dance, cry, and release at any turn,” she added.

“I dedicate this award to the audience. You very much deserve a stage to shine one, and I give you all my applause. Thank you, little monsters, my fans, for always supporting me and always supporting the monster in me.”

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“I wish I could stay and watch all these amazing performances, but I have to go back to Madison Square Garden,” Gaga concluded her speech

Despite being double-booked on the evening, Lady Gaga still managed to make her presence felt at the VMAs by prerecording a performance featuring “Abracadabra” and “The Dead Dance.” The VMAs mark the first time she performed “The Dead Dance” from Wednesday season 2’s soundtrack. Gaga appears in the show’s second season as Rosaline Rotwood, and the song, appropriately, came out on Wednesday, Sept. 3.

The Tim Burton-directed music video features Gaga as a cracked porcelain doll surrounded by other creepy dolls in a graveyard.

Gaga had ensured her “NYC monsters” were not left wondering where she was at MSG, sharing an Instagram Stories post on Sunday evening sharing that she would be on stage at 9.30, a little later than scheduled.