Lady Gaga Slams Katy Perry, Says SXSW Vomit Performance Could Change The World

She's not holding back, and we'd expect nothing less…

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by Sophie Wilkinson |
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Lady Gaga is back to her headline-grabbing best. The singer, who spent her performance at SXSW being vomited on by a performance artist, riding a bucking-bronco made out to be a pig with a ball-gag in its mouth, being trussed up on a human-sized spit roast and wearing dreadlocks (we think this last bit could be the most offensive), has now set out to distance herself from other female musicians, most notably Katy Perry.

'I don't know what the fuck I have to do with Katy Perry. My music is so completely different and I couldn't be more different.' she explained at her SXSW keynote speech.

She also addressed* that* porcine-themed performance, which took place at the Doritos #BoldStage. (Their hashtag, not ours), and how it got people talking: 'It was just exciting to see people talk about performance art on the internet. We really just did it because we believe in the performance and we believe in what it meant to the song.'

'I've known Millie [Brown, the ex-St Martin's art school student who has made a career out of puking paint on to canvases and, um, people] for I think like five years now and we've actually collaborated before, she was just in town and so we thought we would collaborate again,' she continued.

Gaga explained that the whole vomiting thing, which has since been called out by Demi Lovato for glamorising bulimia, could even change the world for the better: 'Sometime things that are really strange and feel really wrong can change the world.'

'I'm not saying vomit is going to change the world. What I'm saying is it's the idea of a moment where it's truly just what we wanted to create and us just respecting each other as artists was enough for the performance to be worth it.'

If that wasn't enough controversy stoked, she also promised that a brand-new video of hers, beginning the second stage of her not-so-very-commercially-successful ARTPop album, will be out on 22 March.

We're intrigued to see what she does with this one. Which bodily function will she pay tribute to next? Periods? We're putting our money on periods.

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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.

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