Y'all know what would've been super cool for her to do if she had kept "Marry the Night" as the 3rd single?
Imagine if she had arrived on the VMAs red carpet in a look like this:
It would represent Stefani. Throughout the show, her hair would be bleaching and would sit in the mint blue cap from the video. When she closes the show, her performance would have her giving a short monologue on her rise to fame and her feelings about it. During the monologue, there would be a white sheet covering the stage, as the silhouettes of dancers performing ballet were projected on the screen.
After the monologue finishes, the keys from the beginning would start to play. The white sheet would lift up, and we would see Gaga in a black robe singing the first verse. Her hair would be in the triangle shaped wig she had during the "Marry the Night" era. Behind her is a set built to look like a dance studio, with mirrors and a balance bar. As the she starts to sing "I'm gonna marry the night, I'm gonna marry the night, I'm gonna marry the niiiiiiiiight", she rips off the robe and appears in the outfit she wears during the dance studio scene (except she's wearing black shorts instead of spandex). She finishes performing the first chorus when the music stops and the lights go out.
She changes the blue-jean bra into the shirt she wears in the fiery car scene, and then the lights go back on. The wall of mirrors shatters, and reveals the set from the Grammy Nominations performance. The music begins, and she performs the second verse. When the second chorus starts, tons of pyrotechnics light the stage, and the set glows a bright orange.
As the bridge begins, she changes into this outfit:
except without the head piece. While she sings the bridge, a huge circular staircase rises from beneath the stage. She slowly climbs the stairs as she sings the final chorus. During the acapella "ma, ma, ma-marry, ma, ma, ma-marry, ma, ma, ma-marry the night" part, she sings and claps with the audience at the top of the staircase, which would look something like this.
During the "the NIIIEEEEIGHT" part, the stairs would quickly descend back down until the stage was flat again. She would keep singing, and then, during the last few seconds of the song, she would put on the metallic metal hat. As she posed one last time, the pyrotechnics surrounding the stage would form a circle around her, preventing the audience from seeing her. At the end, the pyrotechnics would stop, and Gaga would disappear, finishing the performance.
I should be part of her creative team.
