Lady Gaga will perform at the MTV VMAs

Lady Gaga leads this year’s MTV Video Music Awards with 12 nominations, so it is little surprise she is set to perform, or that the show would want her on stage. She has a long, but somewhat selective history at the MTV Video Music Awards, where she has often made headlines as much for spectacle as for music. She first performed in 2009 with a dramatic, blood-soaked rendition of 'Paparazzi,' and in 2010, she famously arrived on the red carpet in the now-iconic meat dress.

Over the years she has earned dozens of VMA nominations and has won a whopping 18 VMAs in here career. In addition to the 2009 performance, here only other live performance at the show was in 2020. Her return adds prestige to the show and could help draw a larger audience when it airs Sept. 7 on CBS.

(h/t Pitchfork)