Lady Gaga Keeps Soaring. An Oscar Wow

Lady Gaga performing "Til It Happens To You" at the Oscars
Sunday night. 

As most of you who read this blog know, I've been a Lady Gaga fan from the start.

She's certainly gone through a lot of personas. And I'm sure many people thought she was a strange performance artist flash in the pan when she first hit it big several years ago.  

But she's got the goods, as she's proven through such moments like her collaboration with Tony Bennett, here National Anthem performance at the Super Bowl, and last night, her song  "Til It Happens To You" At the Oscars.

The Oscar-nominated song is from The Hunting Ground, a movie which is an expose of the rape culture on college campuses.

Joined by several survivors of sexual assault, Lady Gaga's performance last night moved people to tears.

Like I said, Lady Gaga has got the goods and the staying power. She is going to have a long, interesting, wonderful career. Which I'm very happy about.

Here's the Oscar performance:

Everybody Going Gaga Over Lady Gaga's Super Bowl National Anthem Performance

Lady Gaga performs "The Star Spangled Banner"
at the start of tonight's Super Bowl.

As I write this, Super Bowl 50 had just gotten underway, so I have no idea of the outcome.

But one thing already happened at this year's Super Bowl that will be incredibly memorable.

They picked Lady Gaga to sing the "Star Spangled Banner" at the start of the game.  

Of course they were going to get a great singer to do this. It's the biggest televised sports event of the year.

But Lady Gaga out gaga'd herself. It will go down as one of the best, if not the best Super Bowl National Anthems ever. It's at least as good, if not better than the famous Whitney Houston performance in 1991

All the more reason to be a huge fan of Lady Gaga. Listen and see for yourself:

Lady Gaga Gets Serious In Her Provocative New Song and Video

A still from the video for Lady Gaga's new
song, "Till It Happens To You."

I've always been a fan of Lady Gaga.

Yeah, people would snicker at me as I enjoyed the weirdness of her early hits with her outlandish outfits, even more outlandish videosand singing that was in part just sound effects.

Remember "Bad Romance"?  And these deep lyrics:

"Rah rah ah ah ah
Ro ma ro ma ma
Gaga oh la la 
Want your bad romance"

Sounds like a baby on acid.

But I loved the song, and all her music. Even in her weirdest stages, she has the goods, the pipes. She really can sing. And she could put on quite a show

Then Lady Gaga did a 180 and formed an unlikely but winning partnership with Tony Bennett. They made beautiful music together, definitely.

Now she's back, with something that is decidedly not beautiful, but is important and excellent and serious. No weirdness here. Just a raw, in your face message.

Lady Gaga's new song is  called "Till It Happens To You."

The song is the theme for the campus rape documentary "The Hunting Ground."

The video is really a PSA about rapes on college campuses. There's even a warning at the beginning of the video to say it's graphic. Some of the images are disturbing, but they do get their point across.

We understand a portion of the proceeds for this song will go to survivors of sexual assault.

Lady Gaga is one of those artists that change and grow and alter themselves at the drop of a hat, it seems. When she does that for good reasons, good causes, you can only admire her more.

Here's the video:

Youngest Lady Gaga Choreographer

I like dancing around to Lady Gaga tunes, which is a frightening thing to think about seeing, given I'm a middle-aged male hick from Vermont. So usually, I keep that under wraps.

Maybe I need a decent choreographer. I would do well to find the choreographer the two women found in the video you can watch below. It's so adorable. A little boy seems to spontaneously come up with moves to the hit Lady Gaga song "Judas" and the two women follow along.

He's really come up with a surprisingly good dance routine to the song. The kid is probably three or four years old. Maybe he's a future judge (or maybe current judge) on Dancing with the Stars for all I know.

Watch the vid. It won't disappoint: