2 years ago
2 years ago
LINK: Caught in an Ad Romance «
Check out this L.A. Times article about Lady Gaga’s astonishing amount of product placement in her music vids, particularly “Bad Romance.” After all, the Lady’s got a Fame Monster to feed and it’s not like she can just take out a mortgage on the Haus.
2 years ago
2 years ago
The music video for Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” premiered today, and it’s pretty much the best thing ever. The premise? A group of jealous supermodels kidnap Gaga and force her to drink vodka…and other weird things. The vid is a tribute to the “tough female spirit” and is directed by the “I Am Legend” dude.
Let’s liveblog the best moments!
0:51: The way she moves her hand? Obsessed. There’s something wrong with Esther, you guys.
1:15: Her expression here is too amazing.
1:51: Vodka nom nom nom
2:02: Love the moment when the jacket is pulled off. Swarovski meets prostitute.
2:28: The best/weirdest (with Gaga, this distinction is redundant) lyric in this song is clearly “Want you in my room when your baby is sick.” (WHAT DOES THAT MEAN!?!?!) I love it even more after this video. Just for a moment, Gaga goes all charades and makes a pregnancy motion. In case you thought the lyric was a metaphor or something. Love it love it love it.
2:42: Evil cat!
3:03: Feel like I’m watching “Heroes.” This is so Hiro Nakamura right now.
3:11: Best dance sequence in the entire video. Mia Michaels would approve.
3:24: Okay. I think we’re all over the solar system thing. Once or twice was enough, Gaga.
3:29: THE CLAW
3:44: The polar bear dress is weirdly beautiful. Is that weird to say?
4:41: Hit ‘pause’ at this moment. It’s a gorgeous shot. Props.
4:58: Have absolutely no idea what this is supposed to mean/say/represent. But I’m 100% sure it’s brilliant.
I’m left with two questions: 1) How is she going to continue to top herself? This is her first video as an A-list star, and she kills it. Where do you go from here? 2) She always looks wildly different whenever I see her, but it’s particularly weird here. HER FACE NEVER LOOKS THE SAME IN EACH SHOT. I have seen hundreds of pictures of her and would still probably not recognize her walking down the street.




