Parents Walks Out on Lady GaGa Jingle Ball Performance

Lady Gaga offended parents during this year's Jingle Bell Ball at Madison Square Garden with her raunchy stage talk.

In the face of so much crowd-pleasing, Gaga's set was just the kind of jarring spectacle on which she thrives. Her set was a junkyard of 'tis-the-season signifiers: reindeer antlers, Christmas lights and bundled evergreens, which she sat in between during her set-opener, "Edge of Glory," making herself barely visible to the audience (cue the earliest exits). She followed with her giddy first hits, "Just Dance," "Poker Face" and "Bad Romance," and ordered, "Put your paws up!" A few thousand obeyed, but it wasn't exactly the cultish surrender you'd find at her own Monster Ball shows. "Judas" came next, a hyper-speed industrial number that faltered at radio and didn't fare much better here.

Gaga moved on to a cover of "White Christmas"with a new verse that she had written herself. She explained to the crowd her reason for adding to the original. "I think it's too short," Gaga said. "Just when I get into it, it stops. It's like a really bad orgasm."Parents and tweens made their way out. "You & I" delivered, though, with Gaga's piano pounding and barroom belting trumping everything that had come before it, as did "Born This Way."

Then, a costume change - the cardinal sin - and by the time Gaga was singing her "Marry the Night"encore, cloaked in a hospital gown and confronting the audience with a blank stare, only the hardcore fans and truly curious remained. It's a good thing she's much more than a radio star.

Jacked from Rolling Stone