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Lady Gaga may have caught the world's attention when she wore a dress made of raw beef cuts at the 2010 VMAs, but it was artist Linda Sterling who did it first.
In an interview with the Guardian, Sterling was asked whether the amount of publicity Lady Gaga received annoyed her.
"A little bit" she said. "The lack of acknowledgement. Our generation always acknowledged our influences. That does not seem to happen so much any more."
Sterling, who wore a dress made of discarded chicken meat during a performance in 1982, added: "You have to do it, though, otherwise people don't go on the great journey of discovery that impelled you to become an artist... History, after all, is one big dressing-up box."
Lady Gaga, who recently denied reports that the poor performance of her new album ARTPOP led to label staff being fired, explained the meat dress as an example of the need to "fight for our rights." Tenuous stuff.
Watch the singer attempt to explain the dress to Ellen DeGeneres below
Gaga has made no reference to Sterling's earlier version of the controversial outfit.
Below: The most pretentious things Lady Gaga said in the run-up to Artpop.
