Marry The Night: Most Compelling Minute In Pop Music
XOLondon Reviews Marry The Night.
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1. The track itself has perhaps the most compelling minute in pop music in 2011, from 3:35 onward, it ****ing blazes.
2. That said, it also has one of the most awkward lyrics of the year, "Love is the new denim or black." Inane.
3. This video is a 13-minute closing statement for why Lady Gaga has lost the plot. That plodding, overwrought intro piece before we ever get to the music. And what should be the payoff dance sequence at the end? It gets all chopped up so we don't see it. What was that? Did she try to tell the story of her career in final minute?
4. Gaga, people liked you for your pop songs and get-ups, not because you self harmed, aborted a child or whatever you are vaguely alluding to for 8 long minutes. How that moment affected your fame, I don't get. Apparently the answer to all woes is "I will be famous!"
5. She is straining to shock: I had an abortion, I am showing my **** to my Monsters, I am puking, it turns out I paint on my hair color while drugged up in a bath. Am I sick in the bath or am I sexy, writhing around with my hot tats?
6. As @jbspitzer said, "Can we talk about her Madge voice?" What was that enunciation in the narration? And yet another brazen Madonna getup when she goes to the dance school and they're all looking down at her (which is overcooked symbolism).
7. How much did this bloated self indulgence cost? And how is this video 13 minutes long and yet it still feels incomplete? There are huge gaps in the narrative, especially given the glimpses of visuals in the final minute. This is a VIDEO, Gaga, show us, don't tell us.
8. Somebody at Lady Gaga's label - we know it's Interscope because its scratched on her hand at the end - needs to stand up to her and say "You need a seasoned video director who can help you tell your stories." Madonna and Michael hired the best and never had the hubris to think they were better. This is the career moment where Gaga should use her industry bona fides to bring back big guns like Mark Romanek.
9. What do I think is good? The blow job cheek/hand motion. A few of the looks, like when she marches up to the dance troupe at the end and takes off her glasses. Or the very brief big hat ("I made it! My hat is too huge for my car service!"). And the signature dance move - that leg kicking thing. Let's all do that over some beers and forget this vagazzled mess.
10. Silver lining: One would think that Madonna will see this Gaga video and say FOLLOW THIS PUSSYCAT. My own roommate summed up Marry The Night best when she said, "Who's got time for all that ********?"
The nearly 14-minute music video for “Marry the Night,” is complex, disturbing, abnormal, and twisted. More so, it is absolutely beautiful to watch.
The video is believed to be about Lady Gaga being dropped from her first record label and the downward spiral that then consumed her personal life and professional career. Stripped down to its core, it is a song about survival and making a comeback. The video follows that story closely, but in order to find the true meaning, viewers must first make their way through the convoluted reality that Lady Gaga has created.
The video opens with Lady Gaga being wheeled into a hospital. Gaga’s voice fills the video, “The lie is much more honest. It’s not that I have been dishonest it is just that I loathe reality,” Gaga says. The nurses wear designer clothes and shoes, as does Gaga. The reality is a supposed parallel to what really happened when she entered the hospital after she was dropped from her record label, this reality of course has high fashion and enough drama to kill, but maybe this is how Gaga saw the world around her at this time in her life. The opening scene ends with Gaga saying, “You know why I’m going to be a star? I have nothing left to lose.”
The video then launches into Gaga performing a ballet dance number on an empty stage in an skin-like outfit, with flashbacks to her mental and physical break down in her apartment. The contrast of beauty and the horror of mental anguish portrayed in this scene is striking and moving.
Gaga comes out of her breakdown to a hallway filled with dancers on an upper level looking down on her. At this point almost nine minutes into the video there has still yet to be a single note of “Marry the Night.”
Finally, the song opens. The scene is Gaga in an old Trans Am at night surrounded by flames, it seems as though Gaga is having a personal moment of vindication in this scene; she finds her voice again and becomes the dancing, singing Gaga that fans love.
The video then transitions into a dance video with an amazing dance sequence in an old dance studio.
What is both surprising and shocking about this video is that Gaga manages to hold your attention for nine minutes without even singing a single note. Her personal story is just as intriguing as her music itself, maybe even more so.
After the first view of this video, viewers might be confused, but the emotional human progression that is shown is simple, yet beautiful. The video shows and proves that no matter how far down someone is in his or her life, the rise up will be glorious and beautiful. Gaga has inspired her fans all over the world and will now reach more viewers with her postive yet twisted message in this music video.
“Marry the Night,” was worth all of the 13 minutes and 51 seconds.
They should've just remove the gimmicks and gone straight to the song. The first minute of the video was interesting but everything else was annoying, IMO.
They should've just remove the gimmicks and gone straight to the song. The first minute of the video was interesting but everything else was annoying, IMO.
Lol @ a plot and storyline being considered a gimmick.
Are we now gonna post individual reviews again? I remember how that turned out.
But I see one thing that does not have a lie:
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8. Somebody at Lady Gaga's label - we know it's Interscope because its scratched on her hand at the end - needs to stand up to her and say "You need a seasoned video director who can help you tell your stories." Madonna and Michael hired the best and never had the hubris to think they were better. This is the career moment where Gaga should use her industry bona fides to bring back big guns like Mark Romanek.
I miss his music videos career TBH...the best MV director of all time!
