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Originally posted by hausofbryan
Uh, if you're gonna seriously say the DITD bridge wasn't a "homage" to the Vogue bridge.. I can't.
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"Homage," perhaps. If anything, Gaga's spoken word interlude seems to be much more artful than Madonna's in "Vogue." Gaga dismantles the mystique surrounding tragic female figures, proffering instead a mythology of the archetypal woman -- insecure, afraid to be seen nude with the lights on -- of which these ladies (Sylvia Plath, Judy Garland) are a part. Plath is no titanic death figure, but a simple girl.
Madonna's constellation of Old Hollywood images does impart a tonal effect upon the song, so it is with artistic merit, but she is not working on all cylinders in "Vogue" as Gaga is on "Dance in the Dark."