Normally nothing Lady Gaga’s wearing would make me flinch. Meat dress? Sure. Kilt fashioned from hand-stitched dinosaur pelts? Of course. But today her left hand made me do a double take. As I mentioned in October, Gaga and longtime boyfriend Taylor Kinney are near the top of my soon-to-be-engaged-celebs list. And Mama Monster herself told Howard Stern on Monday that she’d say yes if the Chicago Fire star proposed. So I couldn’t help but be suspicious when she stepped out today in THIS, the most shocking of accessories, in my book:
Let’s go in for a closer look.
I mean, I’m not forgetting that she’s Lady Gaga. She can wear this and no one’s alarmed:
But she so rarely wears a ring on THAT finger—believe me, I check—so I have a few questions I’d like answered about this new accessory. It looks like a black diamond solitaire on a simple gold band. Not a traditional center stone, for sure, but the cut and the classic setting are SO engagement-y.
So, what do you think? Are Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney engaged? Is this ring THE ring? Or am I overthinking it? Do picture Lady Gaga wearing a traditional engagement ring? Or, like, a ring attached to a miniature cage housing a live tarantula?
Let me just remind everyone that I noticed Scarlett Johansson’s new wedding ring a full week before the rest of the world realized she and Romain Dauriac got secret-married, so my ring-tracking radar is on point right now.