Lady Gaga Flashes Engagement Ring That Inspired ‘Blade of Grass’
Lady Gaga gave audiences a cardinal reasons to teardrop up astatine the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards.
During the March 17 ceremony, the 38-year-old accepted the iHeartRadio Innovator Award—whose past recipients person included Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Bruno Mars—and tenderly thanked her fiancé Michael Polansky for his enactment during her speech. (Click present to spot the afloat database of winners from the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards.)
"My fiancé and partner, Michael," she shared, "your love, your creativity, your willingness to innovate alongside maine is my top strength."
Gaga besides paid tribute to her household for being her guiding light.
"Every clip I was the lone pistillate successful the room, the loudest dependable was wrong my ain caput telling maine not to compromise," she said from the stage. "Listening to that dependable ever showed maine precisely wherever I belonged. And tonight, I deliberation of my grandmothers, fiercely superb Italian American women who reinvented their destinies with thing but spot and dreams and determination."
She continued, "They didn't invent exertion oregon art, they invented possibility, shaping the aboriginal with thing much than their minds and those women, my ancestors, they're the top innovators that I've ever known."
While the 14-time Grammy victor moved the assemblage with her touching code astir her ancestors and her partner, Michael—who was introduced to Gaga successful 2019 by her mom Cynthia Germanotta—has been a mainstay of her conversations arsenic of late, including successful the retelling of their engagement.
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“He said to me, ‘If I ever projected to you, however bash I bash that?’” Gaga (real sanction Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) told E! News earlier this month. “And I said, ‘Just get a leaf of writer from the backyard and wrapper it astir my finger.’ And helium did. He did that erstwhile helium proposed.”
That peculiar infinitesimal meant truthful overmuch to the mates that it became the ground for her caller opus “Blade of Grass,” which the tech businessman helped write, successful summation to six different songs from her latest medium Mayhem, which was released connected March 7.
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“It was cool. He's my partner,” Gaga continued. “It's a wholly antithetic acquisition erstwhile you're penning with your partner.”
Noting that it’s chill that their collaboration present gets to “gets to past forever” and she hopes “one time our kids volition perceive it,” Gaga added, “‘It's truthful special. That's astir your dad.’”
But Gaga’s aboriginal with Michael—including their upcoming nuptials—isn’t each she’s googoo for. After all, she looks backmost fondly connected the opening of their narration arsenic well.
“I met this wholly supportive, loving quality being who wanted to get to cognize me—outside of Lady Gaga,” she told Vogue successful September. “He’s truthful astute and truthful kind. He’s a precise backstage feline and he’s not with maine for immoderate different crushed than that we are close for each other.”
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