To celebrate the end of the 2010s, Entertainment Weekly is looking back at the best pop culture of the decade that changed movies, TV, music, and more. Today, we count down the weirdest pop star moments of the last 10 years.
Lana Del Rey on SNL Saturday Night Live has long been a proving ground for new-to-market musicians, and the hype surrounding Lana Del Rey’s 2012 debut on the show was deafening even before she sang a note from Studio 8H. But her performance, which included a wobbly version of her breakout single “Video Games” and the brooding “Blue Jeans,” was even more notorious for Del Rey’s presence, which featured a glazed expression, wobbly vocals, and awkward twirling that was made for meme appropriating.
— Hollywood Reporter August 21, 2018 A few days after Aretha Franklin passed away, Madonna used her presenting slot at the Video Music Awards to ramble on about how she’d used “ Natural Woman” in an early audition. “None of this would have happened, could have happened, without our lady of soul,” Madonna proclaimed. “She led me to where I am today.