The 27-year-old pop star donned a glued on half-clamshell bikini - sans straps - with a massive beach blow-out hairdo in her latest music video offering Applause, displaying her incredibly smooth and curvaceous figure.
Revealing: Lady Gaga glues on plastic clamshells for a nearly nude dance in her latest video Applause
Blow out: The 27-year-old wore her hair in a big 70s 'do
Although, the confident display, reminiscent of a mermaid but with legs intact, was not the only skimpy outfit for the star - who dons nearly half-a-dozen costumes in the three and-a-half minute video.
The video opens with Gaga - a.k.a. Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta - in lacy lingerie gyrating on a mattress on the floor.
The moving montage then quickly flashes between her writhing and a winged version of herself suspended in mid air, all in stark black and white.
In the beginning: The video opens with Gaga reclining on a bare mattress dressed only in lingerie
To the beat of her own drum: The star writhed seductively in the starkly lit black and white lingerie sequence
Revealing herself: The exhibitionist pulled out all the stops in her solo dance
She is then seen alternately inside a large soup pot and emerging from a black magician's hat like a rabbit.
Gaga then assumes various personas, wherein the video bleeds out into colour in surprising moments as she masquerades as the winged creature while a group of dancers writhe and convulse beneath her in a gaudy version of a sweaty nightclub.
But the seemingly stream of consciousness and incongruous video has an explanatory moment when the screen explodes with a multitude of Gagas wearing different expressions.
Covering up: The Bad Romance singer donned a skullcap, looking like a character out of an Ingmar Bergman film
Sad clown: Gaga's various personas begin to melt
Magician's trick: She pops out of a magic hat wearing a mismatched outfit
Gaga appears to be saying she is acting at all times, trying on different characters for her various musical arrangements.
In a characteristically odd but revealing moment she wears the make-up of a sad broken clown smearing the thick paint over her face - but then the visually vibrant narrative shows her as a caged woman in thick garish make-up.
Barely covering herself: The Poker Face singer went topless as an unseen figure covered her modesty
Big routine: A group of bare chested male dancers took to the stage
Trapped: Gaga displayed herself in a cage, presumably made up of her own celebrity
The narrative clearly communicates that she is a versatile performer, who only shows her audience what she wants them to see.
In keeping with the visual arc Gaga then goes topless in leather gear as an unseen figure grasps her breasts to cover her modesty.
Schizophrenic display: The star showed herself
in a montage wearing various expressions, indicating the multitude of
personas she wears as Lady Gaga
Ballooning out: Gaga wore a sheet that blew up around her
In the clutches of fame: Gaga struck a pose as a cartoon hands surrounded her
The final writhe: Gaga shook her hair while dancing on the ground
Scanty display: The pop star showed off her enviably toned physique
She then carries a massive bouquet that dwarfs her body, seemingly communicating her out-sized desire for adulation.
The video abruptly ends with her writhing on the bare mattress in lingerie and cutting to her convulsing seductively on the ground in her clamshell mermaid outfit.
The proposal: A reportedly homeless man gave Gaga an engagement ring outside her hotel in Los Angeles, on Sunday
Cuddling up: The star is said to have then given the man a red rose after his declaration of love
