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David Bowie’s filmmaker son Duncan Jones appears to have taken a swipe at Lady Gaga following her epic tribute performance to the rock icon at Monday’s Grammy Awards.
Film director Duncan Jones was among those watching her song and dance performance in Los Angeles.
On Twitter, he shared with his 277,000 followers a dictionary definition of the word “gaga”.
He wrote: “Overexcited or irrational, typically as a result of infatuation or excessive enthusiasm; mentally confused.” Damn it! What IS that word!?”
The 29-year-old US singer opened her performance dressed as Ziggy Stardust, complete with newly-dyed red hair, singing Space Oddity.
She then broke into Changes, Ziggy Stardust, Suffragette City, Rebel Rebel, Fashion, Fame, Let’s Dance and Heroes.
Her medley also included flashing multi-coloured lights and images of her on a large screen.
One featured a close-up of her face with a lightning bolt of red make-up – a nod to Bowie’s cover from his sixth album Aladdin Sane.
Gaga received a standing ovation from the crowd at the end as she embraced Chic’s Nile Rodgers, one of Bowie’s producers.
The tribute to Bowie, who died aged 69 in January of cancer, was widely seen as one of the highlights of the awards ceremony.
And it was one of the most-discussed moments of the show on social media.
Twitter user Lady Teapots said it was “cruel and mean spirited to attack Lady Gaga who gave her all to honour and entertain”.
But Darcy Bennett tweeted: “Surely the man is entitled to his opinion. especially considering it’s about his father.”
Meanwhile, Eagles musician Glenn Frey, who died last month, was honoured at the ceremony with a special tribute by his bandmates and friend Jackson Browne, who performed Take It Easy at the show.
Agencies/Canadajournal
