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Lady Gaga performs onstage during the MTV Europe Music Awards 2011 live show at at the Odyssey Arena on Nov. 6, 2011 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
You could count on one hand and probably still have some fingers left over the number of pop albums this century that have been as widely and wildly anticipated as Lady Gaga s second full-length album
Born This Way.
Released worldwide 10 years ago this weekend, the album followed two years of Gaga racking up massive hit singles ( Just Dance, Poker Face, Bad Romance ), with accompanying larger-than-life music videos and headline-grabbing live performances that helped cement her as music s biggest new star.