The superstar singer tried her best to keep a poker face, but when the heat level progressed to Da Bomb hot sauce, she fought back tears and quipped, “Is this safe?”

Lady Gaga smiles during an appearance on ‘Hot Ones’ with host Sean Evans. Credit: First We Feast/Hot Ones

There’s something special (and spicy) about seeing Lady Gaga outfitted in an over-the-top couture creation while sitting in front of a murderer’s row of hot sauces and chowing down on chicken wings opposite Sean Evans on Hot Ones.

The superstar singer tried her best to keep a poker face, but when the heat level progressed to Da Bomb hot sauce, she fought back tears and quipped, “Is this safe?” In a true Babygirl moment, Gaga also took a big swig of milk to cleanse her palate. Gaga’s appearance comes on the heels of the debut of her newest single, “Abracadabra,” which dropped during Sunday’s Super Bowl and ahead of the launch of her eighth studio album, Mayhem, on March 7.

In between bites, Gaga and Evans got down to business by talking about her career, its highs and early beginnings. “I just look back on that time so fondly,” she said of starting out when she would use an accent to book herself on gigs. “I would knock on door after door after door and just say, ‘Can I please play here?’ Or I would call and pretend I was my manager. I would tell people, ‘She’s so hot right now,’ and sometimes I would do like an accent. I would do anything to get booked.”

She also opened up on her creative process, specifically writing the “Born This Way” blockbuster hit in only 10 minutes. “For ‘Born This Way’ and a lot of my songs, I hear it pretty quickly and then I just have to follow it. To me when I’m making music, I say that I’m listening. It’s a feeling of receiving.”

Lady Gaga drinks a glass of milk and shows off her huge engagement ring. Credit: First We Feast/Hot Ones

Evans also asked Gaga about her past tours and the approach to building extravagant set pieces. He noted how Shakira told him that she lost money by having a heavy piece of stage equipment in one of her shows due to the cost of transporting it along the way.

“One set piece that we built, which was like really cool actually 3D sculpture that Nick Knight built, he put me inside a grand piano and made this huge statue,” Gaga detailed. “It was so early in my career, I didn’t plan how it would get on and off the stage. It was so heavy and the crew guys were like, ‘This thing is as big as the arena, we can’t put it on the stage.’ That was pretty expensive and a bad decision. I definitely now try to be a lot more resourceful, just making less and not over producing things. I just want to be more resourceful. I’m growing up.”

Sean Evans and Lady Gaga on Hot Ones. Credit: First We Feast/Hot Ones