In a publicity stunt to promote her newest album, Artpop, the Grammy Award-winning singer donned a multi-rotor copter she called Volantis and skimmed the stage. The battery-powered dress came with six booms and a rigid bodice that kept her in place for her entrance. She told the crowd that had gathered at the building in Brooklyn’s Navy Yard:
“I wanted to make today about something even more important to me, and that something is the youth of the world. Their minds are just so boundless. They’re just so inspiring.”