But Lady Gaga took the analogy to another, all together frightening level on Tuesday.
The 27-year-old was seen nonchalantly carrying a scaly black claw as she made her way through Los Angeles International Airport.
Need a hand with that? Lady Gaga was seen carrying a grotesque Halloween claw as she made her way through LAX on Tuesday
The pop star looked as if she had stepped off the pages of a gothic novel with her flouncy Victorian dress and sky-high black leather boots.
She wore her platinum blonde hair in a half updo and shielded her eyes with black shades.
But it was the clawlike hand that she casually held while walking through the airport.
The singer was catching a flight to Berlin, where she would be attending a listening party for upcoming album ARTPOP, due for release November 11.
She tweeted earlier in the day:
'Off to Berlin! Kleine monsters ready for the ARTPOP listening party at my favorite nightclub?'
Meanwhile, Gaga avoided a trial scheduled to begin next month by settling a lawsuit out of court brought by a former personal assistant seeking unpaid overtime wages.
The settlement in a lawsuit brought by Jennifer O'Neill was revealed on Monday in a court order dismissing the case.
Interesting choice: The pop star looked as if
she had stepped off the pages of a gothic novel with her flouncy
Victorian dress and sky-high black leather boots
Elaborate style: She wore her platinum blonde hair in a half updo and shielded her eyes with black shades
Promotional trail: Gaga was catching a flight to Berlin, where she was attending a listening party for her upcoming album ARTPOP
O'Neill, 41, had testified she was responsible for sometimes monitoring the singer's communications and for handling about 20 bags of luggage.
Court papers revealed that Lady Gaga and O'Neill were roommates and friends on the Lower East Side of Manhattan before 2008.
Put the claws away: Gaga regularly curls her
fingers into a 'monster claw' in tribute to her super fans, pictured in
NYC in 2011
