Gaga for attention: Smoking cannabis on stage. Are there no depths Lady Gaga won't sink to as her star fades?

All but the most gullible observers would conclude that when she lit up a giant cannabis spliff on stage this week, Lady Gaga was, as ever, simply desperate to be noticed.
The singer is on the European leg of her Born This Way Ball tour, and has been nagging for media exposure for the past couple of weeks.
On Sunday, for instance, she went to London Fashion Week in a pink burka, festooned with raccoon tails.

Lighting up: Lady Gaga smoked marijuana while on stage in Amsterdam earlier this week

'Medical wonder': The 26-year-old singer admitted cannabis has helped her approach her music from a 'spiritual' perspective

In case anyone was minded to ignore her, she carried a candystriped handbag bearing an outrageously offensive word, picked out in diamante.

 

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Crushingly for her, it barely made the papers.
The previous Friday she flew to New York and threw a £1 million launch party for her new perfume at Macy’s,  turning up in a dress shaped like the bottle, complete with a gold mask.
Nobody much cared — it made just a few paragraphs on the showbiz websites.

Close enough to touch: Gaga was just metres from the crowd watching her as she light up the cannabis

We can see you: Gaga looked somewhat nervous as she first inhaled the joint, before holding it out to the side as she spoke to the audience

She even posted a picture on Twitter of her and her boyfriend Taylor Kinney embracing naked in a swimming pool last month. It didn’t cause so much as a ripple of offence.
Keen to hang on to her crown as pop’s pre-eminent fruitcake — with the attendant money-spinning power — nothing could be worse for Gaga than to lose the power to shock.
On stage in an unflattering pair of fishnets from which her posterior bulged alarmingly, at 26 she looked like a woman whose prime was fading fast. What had happened to the immaculate Gaga of old? In her place was a ratty-haired creature with a billowing muffin top.
And so in the middle of a concert which critics noted was both bland and shrill, she resorted to that old favourite of publicity seekers — smoking dope, or at least appearing to.
When history comes to judge this piece of ‘bravery’, then the fact that she was in Amsterdam, where smoking marijuana is effectively decriminalised, should be noted.

Rocking out: Gaga wore a T-shirt baring a picture of the cannabis leaf as she took to the stage on Monday night

Revealing: Gaga left little to the imagination in the outfit, which saw her wear fishnet tights underneath a black PVC thong

Taking in the atmosphere: Gaga spread her arms and ran around the stage, much to the delight of the audience