Ladies and gentlemen...
...rock 'n' roll.
I remember in high school thinking, "I wanna be on MTV."
Hello?
Where'd my salad go? I'm gonna vomit.
Just take a bite. It's fine.
And performing for the first time on television.
I always wanted to be a pop singer.
Then I could bridge fashion and technology and pop culture
into one performance.
The zipper broke.
You've been writing songs since you were 13 years old?
A long time. It's about more than just music. It's about the fashion.
When I write music, I think about the clothes I'm gonna wear.
It's all about everything all together.
I want the imagery to be so strong
that the fans wanna eat and taste and lick every part of us.
Just go in.
I'm the girl that everyone said, "I don't get it."
- Best New Artist, Lady Gaga. - Lady Gaga!
It's my first Moonman.
I love you guys.
You're the best fans in the whole world,
and it's for God and for the gays.
It was sort of a play on my fans and the Little Monsters.
So we hatch out of our little monster eggs.
And I chose that because I have evolved as a woman and as an artist.
You've been a very bad, bad girl, Gaga.
I remember watching Beyonce and thinking, "Oh, she's a star."
"I want that."
And now I'm in music videos with Beyonce.
These soldiers that are with me today
have all been discharged from the Air Force or the Army
out of reaction to Don't Ask, Don't Tell policies.
This is why people love you.
And no one person is more valuable
- than another person. - Absolutely.
Best Female Video goes to Lady Gaga, Bad Romance.
- I love you. - Lady Gaga!
God bless MTV.
Tonight, Little Monsters, we're the cool kids at the party.
And the VMA for Video of the Year goes to... Lady Gaga!
I never thought I'd be asking Cher to hold my meat purse.
And I promised if I won this tonight,
I'd announce the name of my new record.
It's called Born This Way.
I was born to endlessly transform.
As the record goes on,
I start to address things that affect our generation.
Social injustice, prejudice, equality, freedom.
These songs all talk about the journey towards your identity.
My mission statement as an artist
is fighting tooth and nail for who you are.
My name is Jo Calderone.
Lady Gaga, when she gets on that stage, she holds nothing back.
That spotlight!
Come on!
Miss Britney Spears!
I've done that already.
Best Female Video.
Lady Gaga, Born This Way.
It doesn't matter who you are.
Gay, straight, bi,
lesbian, transgendered,
you were born this way.
Yeah!
- Lady Gaga, it's so over the top. - Very bold.
I'm proud of her as a woman and as somebody that's just fearless.
MTV always wants me to one-up myself,
and they make sure to let me know that.
And the VMA goes to... Lady Gaga!
You can spin your struggles into gold,
and you just gotta believe in yourself.
We love you, MTV. Thank you to the fans.
I wanna share this award with everybody.
You can do this too.
Celebrate yourself.
Love who you are. Be brave.
I just wanna keep doing better things,
more inspirational for my fans, and just do great music, great shows.
What I do is create an atmosphere for my fans
where they don't leave loving me.
They leave loving themselves.
Ladies and gentlemen...
...rock 'n' roll.