Lady Gaga ensured all eyes were on her as she arrived to celebrate the 50th anniversary of SNL at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Friday night.
As one of the legends scheduled to perform during the three-hour telecast, which will air on Sunday, February 16 on NBC and Peacock, the superstar, 38, was dressed to impress in an edgy mermaid-style gown with silver buttons down the front.
She matched her look to her new, jet-black hair color that suited her goth-chic style.
The singer kept her accessories to a minimum, apart from a pair of black sunglasses that covered her eyes.
The SNL50: The Homecoming Concert has a star-studded lineup of performers, which also includes Miley Cyrus, Bad Bunny, The Roots, Arcade Fire, Backstreet Boys, Bonnie Raitt, Brandi Carlile, Chris Martin, David Byrne and many more.
The concert special will be hosted by Jimmy Fallon and executive produced by Lorne Michaels and Mark Ronson.
Lady Gaga ensured all eyes were on her as she arrived to celebrate the 50th anniversary of SNL at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Friday night
Her latest sighting comes after appearing on the popular YouTube talk show, Hot Ones, earlier this week.
As she chatted with host, Sean Evans, the 14-time Grammy winner singer, 38, opened up about why she nearly abandoned her dream, long before becoming one of the world’s biggest artists, selling millions of records and performing sold-out tours.
When asked to recall the ‘closest’ she came to walking away from being an artist, the singer admitted that this was ‘an incredibly deep question to ask’ while she was in ‘panic mode.’
‘I missed the community that I had in New York, and that was really hard,’ she explained after reminiscing on her days performing at locations like The Slipper Room in Manhattan.
The Joker: Folie à Deux star continued: ‘There were definitely times where I felt like maybe I should walk away but I know for sure that I never would.’
The actress went on to state that while she was ‘definitely’ tested that she was proud to have never given up.
‘And I’m still doing it, so it must mean I want to do it,’ she pointed out, weeks ahead of the release of her long-awaited seventh album Mayhem, set to drop on March 7.
As one of the legends scheduled to perform during the three-hour telecast, which will air on Sunday, February 16 on NBC and Peacock, the superstar, 38, was dressed to impress in an edgy mermaid-style gown with silver buttons down the front
She matched her look to her new, jet-black hair color that suited her goth-chic style
During the interview, Gaga confirmed that she wrote her 2011 hit track, Born This Way, in just ’10 f**king minutes.’
‘I did write it in 10 minutes!’ she exclaimed of her songwriting process. ‘For Born This Way and a lot of my songs, I hear it pretty quickly and then I just have to follow it.’
The Poker Face hitmaker also looked back on the creative methods she would use to get booked early in her career, which included pretending to be her own manager.
‘I look back on that time so fondly when I would spend the whole day trying to get gigs,’ she mused. ‘I would knock on door after door and say, “Can I please play here?” Or I would call and pretend I was my manager. I would tell people “She’s so hot right now.” Sometimes I would do an accent.’
Earlier this month, she dropped her single, Abracadabra, along with an accompanying music video.
The song is from her forthcoming album, Mayhem, which also contains the singles Disease and Die With a Smile.
‘The album started as me facing my fear of returning to the pop music my earliest fans loved,’ the singer said in a press announcement last month.
The singer kept her accessories to a minimum, apart from a pair of black sunglasses that covered her eyes
The star appeared in high spirits as she prepared to perform at the event
While speaking about her next album for Vogue, Gaga gushed: ‘I love producing — I always have — and something that was really important to me making my seventh studio album was blending live instrumentation with programming.’
‘The album is chaotic from a genre perspective — it is genre-bending, and I think in that way is a deeply personal look into my mind as a producer and the way I think about music.’
She also said that the album has a ‘darker pop’ sound that’s more in line with her iconic 2009 album, The Fame Monster.
However, fans need not be worried that Gaga is going too somber with her sound.
Her latest sighting comes after appearing on the popular YouTube talk show, Hot Ones, earlier this week (seen in 2022)
‘The album is not extremely serious in that it’s very fun and meant to be enjoyed at a party, in a club, or at home having personal fun time — to be free of your worries at home or walking through life,’ she insisted.
Gaga released the album’s lead single Disease last month to rave reviews from music critics, who lauded it as a return to the star’s roots.
Unfortunately, the acclaim failed to translate to the charts, with Disease debuting at No. 27 on the Hot 100 – her worst entry for a lead single in 16 years.
On the bright side, Gaga is currently enjoying one of her biggest hits in years thanks to her Bruno Mars duet, Die With a Smile.
The ballad has so far reached No. 2 on the Hot 100 and No. 1 on the Pop Airplay Chart.
