Lady Gaga [1] was omnipresent at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards [2] on Sunday. One moment she was arriving in an avant-garde spacesuit [3], and the next she was honouring her friendship with Ariana Grande [4] in a heartfelt speech before taking the stage with the fellow pop star to perform "Rain on Me" [5] in a truly otherworldly Chromatica medley. (I'm tired for her.) Along the way, she also picked up almost as many awards as the amount of vastly creative face masks she wore [6].
Seriously though, Gaga dominated in the following four categories: artist of the year, song of the year, best collaboration, and best cinematography. She also became the first-ever recipient of the award show's newly invented Tricon award [7], which, well, honours triple-threat icons. Gaga then solidified her Tricon status — it'll catch on? — by dramatically posing with her five moon person trophies in an MTV t-shirt with inexplicable wind in her hair. Look ahead for the photographic proof, as well as other standout moments from Gaga's busy evening.