So, Lady Gaga’s new music video has dropped, which is great news if you’ve been looking for a VERY quick way to make grandma spit up her mashed potatoes.
The video for her new single, “Alejandro,” is a near 9-minute epic that’s littered with enough blasphemy and sexual imagery to make Madonna blush. Using a heavily stylized, throwback military theme, a heavy helping of half naked models, and a severe lack of lighting, Gaga, and director Steven Kline, craft a music video that shocks in too many ways to count.
On first watch, it’s clear that the video owes a great deal to Madonna. The resemblance to Madonna’s classic Vogue video isn’t subtle – including a dance sequence where Gaga’s cone bra is strangely equipped with machine guns. Director Steven Kline was a frequent collaborator of Madonna’s as well. But where Madonna’s Vogue drew the line, Lady Gaga runs right past it.
Simulated sex (both hetero and homo) and gender blurring wardrobes abound for a good part of the 8 and some odd minutes. And to add a little extra helping of controversy to what was already sure to be water cooler talk, she adorns herself in a nun’s outfit and adds in enough blasphemy, and then some, to nab the ire of religious groups, worldwide.
By the end, the whole thing left me feeling slightly uncomfortable. Maybe that’s art. Maybe that’s over the top. Some will hate it. Others will love it. But if you ask me, that means a pop star is doing their job.
Where do you stand?
(*Note: The video contains suggestive sexual imagery. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.)
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