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Gaga's Male Alter Ego Jo Calderone Picks Up VMA for Best Female Performer
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Lady Gaga took home this year's award for best female performer — after putting on a raucous show Dressed as a cigarette smoking, beer drinking man. Her tweak on gender identity opened the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday with a monologue in character as her male alter ego, Jo Calderone, who declared nothing real, and everything theater. Then Calderone tore off a black blazer and danced with a crew of men in white t-shirts and black pants during a rendition of "Yoü and I."
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