Lady Gaga pushes back on ageism in pop as she accepts music award for innovation

Lady Gaga has reflected on ageism within the pop industry in an acceptance speech at the iHeartRadio Music Awards. The US singer, 38, who recently topped the UK album charts for a fifth time with her latest album Mayhem, said she is “just getting warmed up” even though “the world might consider a woman in her late 30s old”. The Abracadabra singer picked up the innovator award and also won the best collaboration gong, along with US music star Bruno Mars, for their hit single Die With A Smile, which features on her new record. “I don’t know totally how to think about this, because winning an award honouring my entire career at 38 years old is a hard thing to get my head around,” she said, while accepting the innovator award.