Hearts be still, Little Monsters.
If she wins Best Original Song at Sunday’s Oscars (Feb. 28), Lady Gaga will be halfway towards becoming the youngest EGOT winner in history.
Gaga already nabbed her first Golden Globe award (which unfortunately doesn’t count towards the EGOT goal) last year for her spectacular role as The Countess in American Horror Story, and needless to say, she has an entire treasury of hard-earned titles and achievements.
Gaga’s Sound of Music tribute brought everyone in the audience and at home to their feet, and ended up becoming perhaps the most talked about and most acclaimed performance the notoriously drab Oscars have ever seen.
And now, here we are, a year and what seems like a million milestones later. In the last year alone, Gaga “monster-clawed her way back to cultural dominance,” as we aptly explained around the time of her breathtaking “National Anthem” performance at Super Bowl 50 on Feb. 7. Following the Super Bowl, she performed an unforgettable tribute to David Bowie, and on Sunday, she will take the stage again to perform “Til It Happens to You.”
Gaga seems to so effortlessly embody what it means to be the “Queen of Pop,” whilst also embracing other facets of life (like love, cooking at home, acting, advocacy through her Born this Way foundation, rock & roll, fashion, her pups, being iconic in the general sense, et cetera).
She doesn’t fit a single mold, and that’s evident across how she’s personified on social media (from Instagram to her newly-created Snapchat) and in her art. Gaga is an artist:
