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Last night, Lady Gaga seemed to rethink her no-pants policy when she switched from her racy and rubber red-carpet ensemble into a striped menswear pantsuit to she accept the first ever Contemporary Icon Award at the Songwriters Hall Of Fame 46th Annual Induction and Awards in New York City. We guess Mother Monster thought it best to cover up to get a prestigious award -- good call, Gaga!

The superstar arrived to the event in true Gaga form, wearing nothing but a latex bra, underwear, ripped fishnets and a smoking jacket. It's posssible the "Applause" singer didn't want the to remember the first ever honor in such a scandalous ensemble -- so she changed it up when speaking onstage to an Eighties-inspired striped suit and a vintage Elvis Presley t-shirt underneath her.

The "Bad Romance" singer, who also performed for the crowd, took to the podium after fellow Hall of Fame inductee Linda Perry performed one of Gaga's hit songs.

When Gaga accepted her award, the blonde got emotional, "I was thinking while I was sitting there, and my mom was handing me napkins ... if they only knew how many bad songs I wrote before that good one."

Gaga was also surprisingly humble about her long list of musical accomplishments, "I feel that I have a lot of work to do, as personally, I feel extremely unaccomplished as a songwriter." She continued, "As my heroes have done some things that I can only dream of, I feel very in my infancy as a writer, and I think you for just ... at this point in my career, I've had some ups, I've had some downs, I've had some in-betweens – that you've chosen to honor me for the only thing I know I have, which is my heartbeat, which is that I write songs."