Lady Gaga's 7 Best Live Performances

 

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It's time we got back to focusing on Lady Gaga's voice.

 

The release of Cheek to Cheek, her standards duet album with Tony Bennett, which dropped Tuesday (Sept. 23), points the camera away from her antics and back on her incredible voice -- a place many Little Monsters hope it stays after Artpop's somewhat disappointing reception.

 

"Part of what was making my sort of artistic experience so unpleasant [with Artpop] was that I felt that I was not able to truly freely fly as an artist," Gaga said in a recent interview with the Associated Press. "In some ways my talents were not being used to their full potential."

 

In honor of what we hope Cheek to Cheek brings more of, check out seven of Lady Gaga's "full potential" moments --some of her best live performances of her career so far.

 

7. Saturday Night Live monologue, Nov. 16, 2013

 

6. "You and I," Amp Radio, July 26, 2011

 

5. "Paparazzi," MTV Video Music Awards, Sept. 13, 2009

 

4. "Speechless," Dec. 8, 2009

 

3. "LoveGame/Bad Romance/New York" medley, Saturday Night Live, Oct. 3, 2009

 

2. "Poker Face/Speechless/Your Song," Grammys, Jan. 31, 2010

 

1. "Edge of Glory," Howard Stern Show, July 18, 2011

 

Source: Billboard

Paparazzi at the VMAs should be #1.

I agree. It's still my most beloved live performance of all time (including other artists).

Her Xmas duet with Joseph Gordon Levitt >>>>>>>>>

I agree. It's still my most beloved live performance of all time (including other artists).

Agreed. How it's "only" number 5 I don't know!