You'll know no one is paying attention to Gaga anymore when she shows up on stage dressed entirely in flaming Korans. For now she continues to stir up the media, and the latest is playing out in the usual way. Step one: be outre.

Step two: expand on the subject in a friendly setting:

That makes no sense. Look, Lady, it's a meat dress. Own it. Say it was amusing to come out wearing meat instead of a trash bag or a see-through nun-'s habit or a dress made out of severed Pez-dispenser heads.

She also added: "And, I am not a piece of meat." Except for the meat on her bones. Which have rights. Anyway, PETA is mad about it, something that put a lot of people indifferent about Gaga squarely in the little-monster camp. Step three: stand back and watch the critics enter auto-knicker-twist mode. PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk said:

Depends who's wearing it, really. By the way, the cover above is from Japanese Vogue. This means she's worn the same outfit twice. That's a first.