Lady Gaga paid tribute to David Bowie with a transformative performance at the 2016 Grammy Awards ceremony. Bowie died last month from a long battle with cancer, with his death coming days after his 69th birthday and release of his final album Blackstar. 
 
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 Filled with special effects, costume changes and an appearance from Let's Dance and Black Tie White Noise producer Nile Rodgers, Gaga gave a tribute to Bowie as eclectic as his career. Beginning with "Space Oddity," Gaga first appeared on-screen with just her head mutating with space-y colors. From there, she moved to a piano featuring hydraulics before performing full choreography to songs like "Fashion," "Let's Dance" and "Rebel Rebel." Rodgers, who also directed the performance, joined in on guitar for the second half of the tribute, which ended with "Heroes." 
 
 Watch the full performance below: 
 
 In 2008, Gaga thanked Bowie "for inspiration" in the liner notes of her debut The Fame. The following year, she listed his single "Rebel Rebel" as one of her favorite pop songs of all time in her first Rolling Stone cover story. 
 
 "All of the things I went through were on my own quest for an artistic journey to fuck myself up like Warhol and Bowie and Mick, and just go for it," she explained to RS in 2010 when discussing her approach to mixing trauma with art. "I like to, within moderation, respect that I'm not Mick Jagger or David Bowie, and I don't just have fans that are a certain age. There are nine-year-olds listening to my music, so I guess I try to be respectful of them if at all possible." 
 
 Last week, Gaga sang the National Anthem at Super Bowl 50. She recently won a Golden Globe for her role on American Horror Story: Hotel and is nominated alongside Diane Warren for Best Original Song at the Oscars. 
 
 Lady Gaga David Bowie Tribute 
 
 "Space Oddity" 
 
 "Changes" 
 
 "Ziggy Stardust" 
 
 "Suffragette City" 
 
 "Rebel Rebel" 
 
 "Fashion" 
 
 "Fame" 
 
 "Under Pressure" 
 
 "Let's Dance" 
 
 "Heroes" 
 
 The Grammys also posted a behind-the-scenes video on Lady Gaga and Rodgers' performance. ||||| Lady Gaga's tribute to David Bowie started on the 2016 Grammys red carpet. 
 
 The 29-year-old pop star channeled the late singer by wearing an orange wig, a leotard, a bedazzled Marc Jacobs blazer and platform heels, a nod to Bowie's Ziggy Stardust era. Prior to her arrival at L.A.'s Staples Center, Gaga shared two Snapchat videos of herself crying in the makeup chair while listening to Bowie's "Backstar" and "Church." On Saturday, Gaga commissioned celebrity tattoo artist Mark Mahoney to ink Bowie's likeness (from his Aladdin Sane album cover) on the left side of her torso. She Snapchatted the inking, captioning one shot, "This was the image that changed my life," and in another, "Hail Mary full of grace Saint Bowie." 
 
 Gaga will sing some of Bowie's biggest hits later tonight. 
 
 At the Recording Academy and Clive Davis' Pre-Grammy Gala Sunday night, E! News' Marc Malkin got intel on Gaga's performance from Neil Portnoy, president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. "She will take us through quite a bit of history of David Bowie's repertoire. It's one of the longest, larger segments of the night," Portnoy said. "There's some very exciting brand new technology that's never been seen on television that will be a part of the segment." 
 
 As if Gaga would settle for anything less. ||||| Lady Gaga's tribute to the late David Bowie during the Grammy Awards on Monday night received mixed reviews from his fans, and someone who is much more than a fan seemed to be largely disappointed. 
 
 Lady Gaga, clad in Bowie-reminiscent garb, belted out a medley of 10 of the icon's hits during the awards show, including "Space Oddity," "Changes," "Ziggy Stardust," "Suffragette City" and "Under Pressure." 
 
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 Shortly after the performance, David Bowie's son, Duncan Jones, fired off a somewhat cryptic tweet: "Overexcited or irrational, typically as a result of infatuation or excessive enthusiasm; mentally confused." Damn it! What IS that word!?" 
 
 "overexcited or irrational, typically as a result of infatuation or excessive enthusiasm; mentally confused." Damn it! What IS that word!? — Duncan Jones (@ManMadeMoon) February 16, 2016 
 
 Those who turned to Google to answer Jones' pressing question found out that the answer was "Gaga," and interpreted Jones' choice to tweet the Oxford English dictionary definition of the word as an expression of distaste for the tribute. 
 
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 Jones, a movie director, has not expanded past the tweet. Many who commented on the not-so-subtle dig chastised Jones for being cruel and unappreciative. 
 
 Lady Gaga performs a medley of David Bowie songs as a tribute to the late singer during the 58th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, on Feb. 15, 2016. MARIO ANZUONI / Reuters 
 
 If Lady Gaga has seen the tweet, she hasn't responded on Twitter. The 29-year-old, six-time Grammy winner didn't only pay tribute to Bowie in song, but also with a tattoo of the legend on her rib cage that she had inked Sunday. 
 
 Bowie, who died of cancer on Jan. 10, was awarded a posthumous Grammy on Monday for a new version of his composition "Sue." He had previously won a best music video Grammy for "Jazzin, For Blue Jean" in 1998 and a lifetime achievement award Grammy in 2006.
– Lady Gaga showed up on the Grammys red carpet all Ziggy Stardusted-up in her Marc Jacobs getup and platform heels, ostensibly to get her pumped for her much-talked-about tribute to David Bowie (she even got a giant tattoo of Bowie on her torso over the weekend, per the New York Daily News). And like all things Bowie, her set was replete with costume changes and vibrantly colorful lights in an Intel-sponsored performance that was described by PSFK.com before the show as being "experimental" with a "wizard behind the curtain" feel." Gaga ran through some of Bowie's best-loved hits, including "Space Oddity," "Changes," "Ziggy Stardust" (which she accompanied on the keyboard), "Suffragette City," "Rebel Rebel," "Fashion," "Fame," "Let's Dance," and "Heroes." The performance was called a "burst of rock 'n' roll energy on a sleepy night" by the Verge, while Rolling Stone deemed it an "astonishing" and "transformative performance."