Mother Monster's latest egg of pop-cultural greatness has just been hatched, the Steven Klein-directed music video for her single "Alejandro". Twitter crashed, Gaga's website went into near-meltdown and even YouTube almost imploded.
Firstly, my predictions: that it would be controversial, check. Provocative, double check. Some kind of homoerotic and religious theme, checkity-check. Gaga should be very proud, she's sure to get the church hot under the collar and TV stations like MTV squeamish to air her latest video. One thing's for sure: this may get banned from TV, but it will get a fuckload of views online.
This is a truly dark direction "Gagaklein" has taken. Long gone are the days of the hairbow-wearing, disco-stick-touting Gaga. This is Mother Monster, and she's bloody frightening.
The dystopian landscape, Nazi-esque soldiers with killer bowl-cuts (sure to be very in this season), a very androgynous Gaga, the bed-bondage sequence, Gaga's machine gun bra... I can already hear it all being etched into pop culture history.
And deliberately pissing off those that call her a Madge-wannabe with her obvious"Vogue" sequence, genius
I'm still struggling to decipher the meaning behind this visual mind-fuck, but I sure as Hell know this is going to piss off a LOT of people. But that's what our society needs, in the humble opinion of this pop-fan.
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