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.
Yeah, I'm one of those H.P nerds that goes to the movies and screams at the screen, bits of popcorn flying out, furious at the way they rape the books. But shit like this never fails to get my Hazza-P nerd-juices a-flowing:
The Midnight Juggernauts' 2nd album "The Crystal Axis" has been my soundtrack for the past week, spinning on repeat in my Pussy Wagon's CD player. With the boys from the Juggernauts sounding like they've been to outer space and back since their first album "Dystopia".
What I love about "The Crystal Axis" is how very Juggernauts it sounds. They've really stayed true to their distinctive sound, but have really progressed too. It's more chilled-out, but very epic-sounding at the same time. It's not as dance-floor friendly as their last album, but it's a real cohesive-sounding record, with each track blending into each other and complimenting each other. "Dynasty", "This New Technology", "Fade to Red" and of course the awesome first single off the album "Vital Signs" being my favourites at the moment.
But it's really the album as a whole that impressed me. Go out and grab a copy and listen to it in full, preferably whilst driving your hover-car through a rainbow-coloured night-time Tokyo.
If their first album was a dark, dystopian Apocolypse, then "The Crystal Axis" is a much more sunny, shiny glimpse of the future - and it sounds good.
Also, take a look at the music video for "Vital Signs", their first single off the record. Amazing
My complete lack of creativity in my waking hours has seemingly shoved all my artistic talents into the twilight zone of my erratic sleeping hours. Although, these dreams are that entertaining that i'm doubting it's even me dreaming them.
My dreams have turned into absolute masterpieces! And no, i'm not bragging at all - I don't have the right. I'm fully convinced that it's someone else crafting them and faxing into my head while I snooze, that's how genius these dreams are.
So, don't tell anyone! I'm plagiarising these night-time gems and using them for my own material as of now. Coz this noodle is coming up with squat while it's conscious.
Five days and counting until Gaga's "Alejandro" film clip enters the pop culture universe.
By the look of the sneaky preview the Haus of Gaga has given us, it's going to be delightfully provocative and a little bit creepy. Just how I like it.
There's been rumours that the video is going to feature a burial scene - my theory is that Gaga will be ravaged and killed by the dude dancers from the preview in some kind of sexy, ritualistic sacrific. Also, I can feel some sort of controversial homosexual and religious theme somewhere in there. And if her live performance of "Alejandro" is anything to go by, there'll be a nice shot of her cleavage smothered in her own blood. Nice.
Expect a little bloggery after the video premieres. I'm sure i'll have a lot to say.
My toes are twitching, my chest feels tight, my sporadic insomnia is flaring up and the little sleep I manage to get is bursting with weird, disturbing, disgustingly Freudian dreams (I had a particularly twisted one last night. I can't really going into much detail without sounding like the lady off "Medium" meets Hannibal Lector on mushies, but I'll just say that "rape" was the least disturbing element).
I need some creative release, but my problem is that I don't have a definite mode of funnelling my creative impulses. I'm plump with artistic milk, but I ain't got no teat. I'm not a painter, i'm not a musician, i'm not a writer or a poet - i'm just a bit of everything and a lot of nothing.
So i'm going to make a film. There, I said it. It's out there. I've never really made a film, but i'm going to make one. I'm yet to write the script - Hell, I don't even own a camera. But it's going to happen.
Watch this space.
