12 Phenomenal Lady Gaga Performances That Will Turn Anyone Into a Little Monster

For Lady Gaga's performance of her hit "Shallow" from A Star Is Born at the 2019 Grammys, we got a glimpse back at the Gaga we fell in love with at the beginning of her career, what with the sparkly jumpsuit and theatrics. She may have reinvented herself a few times during her career, but one thing has never changed: she can sing, and this rock rendition of "Shallow" is just another in a long list of incredible performances.

When Gaga took the stage for the 2017 Super Bowl, she gave us a medley of some of her best hits. From top to bottom, she sang "Poker Face," "Born This Way," "Telephone," "Just Dance," "Million Reasons," and "Bad Romance." She even whipped out a keytar.

Fans can see Lady Gaga anytime they want, thanks to her Las Vegas residency. But fans on one special night were treated to a duet, when Bradley Cooper himself showed up to sing "Shallow" with Gaga.

Let's not forget where it all began. Lady Gaga performed her first hit, "Just Dance," in 2009 on The View in a slightly pared-down setting — she just had someone spinning the track and four backup dancers.

This video right here just goes to show that Lady Gaga is a performer from head to toe. In one song, she went through outfit changes, wig changes, and makeup changes, not to mention she was actually singing and dancing the whole damn time.

What's so great about this performance of "Bad Romance" is that Gaga started at the piano and slowed down the song for the intro. While this song is amazing at its standard upbeat tempo, the slow intro gave it a whole new spin.

Speaking of slowing things down, Lady Gaga's rendition of "Edge of Glory" at Radio 1 Big Weekend in 2011 is particularly beautiful. She stripped down the song to just piano and vocals to really show off how great of a song it is.

There's something so simply beautiful about the Joanne era. Lady Gaga's Saturday Night Live gig in 2016 put her out-of-this-world vocals on display when she played "Million Reasons" at the piano.

Does it get much better than two of the world's most prolific and eccentric singers getting together on one stage to perform? The answer is no. Elton John and Lady Gaga's twist on "Bennie and the Jets" is proof.

Lady Gaga performed this early hit of hers with just her piano, which put her on the map as a new force to be reckoned with in music.

Don't worry, we would never forget the time Lady Gaga arrived to the stage in an egg. To perform her anthem "Born This Way" at the 2011 Grammys, she truly embraced performance art and danced her tush off until the very end.

The hills were alive with The Sound of Music when Lady Gaga paid tribute to the movie and its star, Julie Andrews, at the 2015 Academy Awards. She not only did the music justice, but she also "hit it out of the ballpark," according to Andrews at the time.