Lady Gaga’s tribute to David Bowie: Fans gag or say go-go

With digitized spiders crawling over her face, Lady Gaga performed a spectacular but risky David Bowie medley at Monday night’s Grammy Awards. But did she nail the tribute?

Fans included Bette Midler, who tweeted: “Lady Gaga slays it!!! … David Bowie lives. God, I miss him.”

But ET Online and other outlets noted the critique of Bowie’s son, Duncan Jones, who tweeted a definition of gaga:

“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

ET added:

“Ouch! Whatever the tweet may or may not have meant, Gaga received tons of praise for the tribute, which saw her cover 10 of Bowie’s biggest hits — ‘Spade Oddity,’ ‘Changes,’ ‘Ziggy Stardust,’ ‘Suffragette City,’ ‘Rebel Rebel,’ “Fashion,” ‘Fame,’ the bass lick of ‘Under Pressure,’ ‘Let’s Dance,’ and ‘Heroes.'”

So here’s a medley of Gaga reaction:

Lady Gaga slays it!!! And there’s the great #nilerogers…David Bowie lives. God, I miss him.

— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) February 16, 2016

Cool to see Lady Gaga do a tribute to Bowie instead of her usual tribute to Madonna. #Grammys

— Bryan Donaldson (@TheNardvark) February 16, 2016

Please keep following me on Twitter as this is my only outlet and I’ll need this to insult performances like Gaga mudering Bowie.

— Eric Zane (@ericzanefbhw) February 16, 2016

Is Gaga taking this Bowie tribute to Vegas?#ExplainThisCrap

— Mark McKinney (@Mark_DMcKinney) February 16, 2016

See a behind-the-scenes clip of Lady Gaga’s astonishing David Bowie #GRAMMYs tribute https://t.co/oiRAkA0Vsx pic.twitter.com/oiNsA0RKf8

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) February 16, 2016

Lady Gaga took full creative control of her iconic David Bowie tribute last night – she is insanely talented. https://t.co/kwxfR0XVWj

— Music’s Rebellion (@MusicsRebellion) February 16, 2016

lady gaga for david bowie tribute got me feeling GOOD THANK U

— ☹️ (@Arzaylea) February 16, 2016

Lady Gaga says her David Bowie #GRAMMYs tribute was the most challenging thing she’s done: https://t.co/d51l9qVuE6 pic.twitter.com/asLsmISXUv

— billboard (@billboard) February 16, 2016

Producer: Which Bowie song should we perform to commemorate this amazing artist
Gaga: ALL OF THEM
Producer: like a few?
Gaga: ALL. OF. THEM.

— Josh Hara (@yoyoha) February 16, 2016