Lady Gaga ’s anticipated performance at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards was tonight. In a pre-taped segment recorded at her Madison Square Garden concert last night (September 6), the pop star sang “ Abracadabra ” from her new album Mayhem and “ The Dead Dance ,” her new single for Netflix’s Wednesday . “The category is dance or die,” Gaga declared from atop the massive red ballgown that has become a staple of her Mayhem Ball tour. For “The Dead Dance,” she busted out some disco moves while dressed as a decrepit Little Bo-Peep. Watch a replay below.

With a total of 12 nods, Lady Gaga is the most nominated artist at tonight’s award show. She won Artist of the Year earlier in the evening, and is still up for Video of the Year for her Bruno Mars duet “ Die With a Smile .”

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