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Lady Gaga Delivers Moving Speech While Accepting Innovator Award at 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards: ‘The World Doesn’t Need Another Copy’
Lady Gaga was honored with the Innovator Award at the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards. See what she said in her powerful acceptance speech.
She was presented the award by Doechii, who said the superstar helped the “Denial Is a River” rapper embrace her “weird” side, adding, “Gaga was and always is new, fresh and different. After taking the stage, the “Abracadabra” pop star continued that sentiment, honoring the beauty of weirdness and human differences in every aspect, from age and race to sexual orientation and physical expression. Gaga also acknowledged the community that inspired her, including artists David Bowie, Elton John, Madonna, Stevie Wonder, Cher and her late friend and collaborator Tony Bennett, “who taught me to embrace the classics but never be bound by them.” She also honored the “fiercely brilliant Italian-American women” in her lineage “who reinvented their destinies with nothing but strength and dreams and determination.”
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