Lady Gaga at the 88th Academy Awards in Los Angeles
Attention award show producers: If you invite Lady Gaga to the broadcast, she will steal your show.
At the Academy Awards on Sunday night -- and for the third time this award season -- the 29-year-old pop singer created one of the most memorable moments of the ceremony.
This time, she performed her Oscar-nominated song
Til It Happens To You, which she wrote with Diane Warren for the documentary
The Hunting Ground, about sexual assault on college campuses. At the end of the haunting ballad, a group of sexual assault survivors surrounded Lady Gaga's piano. They clasped hands and raised their arms, which were covered in words written in marker: "survivor,"; "it happened to me"; "not your fault." Lady Gaga grabbed their hands, too, as the camera panned to the crowd giving them a standing ovation -- some celebrities had tears in their eyes.
It was a powerful scene, one which many marked as the most emotional on the show, and sure to make an impact. How does Lady Gaga always manage to create a talked-about moment? There are three elements.
1) The voice.
It's strange, but thanks to her many eccentricities and pop songs, people forget Lady Gaga has extremely impressive vocal skills. Her soaring voice caused a sensation at the 2015 Academy Awards when she performed during the
Sound of Music tribute and belted out
The Hills Are Alive. A common reaction: Lady Gaga can sing?! Why yes, yes she can, although some tend to disregard her vocal acrobatics because of that one time she wore a meat dress.
2) The visuals.
Lady Gaga throws herself into every performance for very arresting images -- for example, when she performed her David Bowie tribute at the Grammy Awards earlier this month and had all sorts of bizarre colors and images running all over her face. Plus, she used a robot piano.
3) Something weird can always happen.
OK, occasionally she goes viral even without a song -- like the most memorable gif at this year's Golden Globes when she went to collect her trophy for
American Horror Story. Who can forget?
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