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"Lady Gaga has defended her recent SXSW festival performance, which involved vomiting performance artist Millie Brown. The singer described her performance of &amp;#039;Swine&amp;#039; as &amp;quot;art in its purest form&amp;quot; during an interview on NBC&amp;#039;s Today show.   During the controversial performance, one of Gaga&amp;#039;s backing dancers made herself throw up green vomit over the star. Demi Lovato has criticised the ARTPOP star for the performance, accusing her of &amp;quot;glamorising eat disorders&amp;quot;. She is also the target of an online petition. Speaking to Today&amp;#039;s Savannah Guthrie, Gaga said of the backlash: &amp;quot;I guess we weren&amp;#039;t completely surprised. [Millie Brown] and I know that not everybody&amp;#039;s going to love that performance.  &amp;quot;But we both really believe in artistic expression and strong identities. I support her and what she does. ARTPOP, my new album, is about bringing art and music together and the spirit of creative rebellion.  &amp;quot;For us, that performance was art in its purest form. But we totally understand that some people won&amp;#039;t be into it.&amp;quot; The 27-year-old said that she did not intend for the performance to cause controversy.  She said: &amp;quot;Did we want the controversy? I suppose it doesn&amp;#039;t matter.  &amp;quot;Either way, we don&amp;#039;t make things for any intention in particular other than in the spirit of entertaining the crowd and creating something that is really for the moment.  &amp;quot;It wasn&amp;#039;t meant for the Today show. It was meant for a club performance in Austin, and we had a great time.&amp;quot; Meanwhile, Gaga also previewed her new music video for &amp;#039;G.U.Y&amp;#039; on the show, and will debut the video in full tomorrow (March 22).  Watch the music video for Lady Gaga&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Applause&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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