Grammy Awards

She had already made one of her most bizarre red carpet entrances yet as she arrived at the Grammys concealed in a giant egg. The 24-year-old outrageous singer emerged from the glowing egg to launch into a spectacular version of her latest single Born This Way.

Only a close watcher of the living, breathing pop art installation known as Lady Gaga would call her red carpet Grammy Awards outfit restrained. Compared to her MTV Video Music Awards ensembles, that is. Or compared to the Muppet massacre she sported on German television last year. It must be exhausting to be Gaga, having to top yourself all the time. We'll call her red carpet look a postmodern Glinda the Good Witch ... in drag, of course.

Well, the Grammy Awards played out mostly as expected, with one twist. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss bagged the Grammy for best album of the year ("Raising Sand") on cue, but — surprise — also best record ("Please Read the Letter"), a category widely forecast to go to Coldplay, which won best song for "Viva La Vida." Plant/Krauss weren't nominated in that Grammy race, but probably would've snagged that if they'd made the list.