Before I post this article, I just want to let everyone know that I myself also have done my research of topic and find it to be very accurate and quite shocking. The last thread I created on the topic of Lady Gaga's occult influence raised alot of anger and delusion on ATRL and ended up being one of the Top 5 viewed threads of the day. I don't want anyone to feel like I'm shoving my beliefs down their throat and they have no reason to. You have the option of ignoring this thread and not even posting at all. There is nothing wrong with disagreeing, but telling me "OH THATS STUPID AND UR JUST MAD CUZ UR FAVE ISNT #1 0N DA CHARTS" isn't a good enough reason to prove me wrong, so please don't even waste your time and make an ass of yourself, unless you can back up what you say. You may think none of it or some of it may be true, but regardless, you have to admit it really makes you think and if it didn't I wouldn't be getting the angry responses I do if nobody cared or were so sure they were right. Everything in a music video is meticulously checked and edited, everything has a purpose and a meaning. To all of those cynics; are you able to come up with a varying interpretation?
"Truth doesn't climb down to you, you have to climb to it."
I have nothing against Lady Gaga and I'm not posting this because I'm trying to make her look bad or whatever you believe my intentions are. I'm posting this, because it's celebrity news just like all the other topics in the Celebria section. This is a serious topic, which many ATRL members struggle to deal with, unlike silly threads discussing the spots on somebodys face. Believe it or not, the talk of occult meanings in music is a widespread topic and has been going on for decades from artists like Madonna to Beyonce, so this is nothing new, but I noticed this topic wasn't discussed much until I came around and felt the need to shed some light on it here. Many of you may dislike me or hate me for doing this, and that's ok. I am not looking for companionship anyone over an internet forum, and by the behavior of many of you, I wouldn't even consider companionship in real life. I just want to speak my mind and warn the open-minded ones that the music industry is not as glamourous as it seems, so with no further ado, here is the article from VC
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Lady Gaga’s videos and performance are extremely symbolic and filled with hidden messages. Her latest video, named “Bad Romance”, describes the dark and ritualistic inner-workings of the entertainment industry, by symbolically depicting Gaga as a sex slave. This article examines the occult symbols present in the video and its hidden meaning.
The video for the song Bad Romance is a mix of deep symbolism with sheer randomness, creative fashion with corporate product placements and modern day decadence with religious imagery, all rolled up in a great big music industry celebration. Gaga uses her odd-ball theatrical presence to its full extent, to shock, creep-out and fascinate the viewers. If you’ve read my other articles on Lady Gaga (see Lady Gaga, The Illuminati Puppet pt 1 and pt 2), you’ll already be aware of the occult symbols permeating her imagery. I’ve mentioned the presence of mind control elements, of the horned god Baphomet, of secret societies and so on. Far from steering away from those themes, Gaga’s latest offering incorporates all of them in this video, which is a great big metaphor for the music industry. Let’s look at the song.
Concept of the Song
Bad Romance is the first single out of Gaga’s Fame Monster album. If you look back at her past works, the main message of her music is that she is willing to do anything, even sacrifice herself, to obtain fame. The video continues in the same vein by depicting Gaga as a willing victim in the music industry’s shady inner-workings. She wants to live a Bad Romance with the abusive, cruel and satanic music industry. She’s aware of all of its flaws but she still desires to be part of it more than anything else. She is a Fame Monster…she feeds from fame…she enjoys being famous…if she is not famous, she’ll die or something…you get the picture. At face value, the song lyrics seem to be about her wanting to get “banged” by a kind of psychopath, but the video reveals that the psychopath is in fact the music industry.
The song starts with a weird chant that goes
Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah-ah!
Roma-roma-mamaa!
Ga-ga-ooh-la-la!
Want your bad romance
This is the type senseless crap drunk people like to yell in those disco dance parties you crazy kids go to. Is there a deeper meaning to it? Gaga enounces it in a weird, gothic accent, in the manner of a ceremonial/incantation, a little like the “Bum-bum-bedum” of Rihanna’s Disturbia (article here). Ra as the name the ancient Egyptian sun god is still of a great importance in today’s occultism (see the “Eye of Ra”, the All-Seeing Eye). Roma may be a reference to the roman catholic church, but I’m not sure. This could be interpreted in many ways so I won’t linger on it.
I want your ugly
I want your disease
I want your everything
As long as it’s free
I want your love
(Love-love-love I want your love)
I want your drama
The touch of your hand
I want your leather-studded kiss in the sand
I want your love
Love-love-love
I want your love
(Love-love-love I want your love)
Right away, it is obvious that the love that Gaga is seeking is wrong and sick. She’s a sex slave and, apparently she likes it. She knows that the industry is ugly but she still wants in. There is an obvious sense of sadomasochism, as she seems to know that this love (of success in the music industry) will hurt her and treat her badly, but she’s up for it. As we will examine in the video, there is also a spiritual meaning to the lyrics where fame equals submitting to the dark, satanic side of the music industry. In other words, the song is also about submitting to evil and the imagery of the video corroborates this fact.
I want your horror
I want your design
‘Cause you’re a criminal
As long as your mine
I want your love
(Love-love-love I want your love-uuhh)
I want your psycho
Your vertigo stick
Want you in my rear window
Baby you’re sick
I want your love
Love-love-love
I want your love
(Love-love-love I want your love)
Here again, there is a mix of the “horror” of evil with hardcore sex references, which convey the fact that she wants to be “penetrated” by this evil influence in order to gain its favors. There are references to Hitchcock movies (Psycho, Vertigo) that are cleverly turned into sexually explicit lyrics.
During the bridge, Gaga sings emotionally “I don’t wanna be friends“. She does not want to be an outsider of the music industry, she wants to be part of it. Later she says “I want your love and, All your lovers’ revenge”, which means that she wants all of the attention of the music industry to the point that she also wants the “hate” of the artists who are jealous of her.
Of course, the lyrics are open to interpretation but the visuals of the video really give a particular meaning to the words. Gaga is not singing to person, but to a group, an entity, an organization. She is signing to the Illuminati, to the music industry, to Baphomet: to the ones that have the power to make her famous. She wants to be part of that sinister and corrupted system and write a Bad Romance with it.
Analysis of the Video
The video is dense with symbols and odd images. Some are significant while others seem to be random. It is however obvious that the whole concept is a huge allegory for the reality of fame. She plays the role of a mind-controlled and drugged sex slave who is prepared to get auctioned to members of the Russian mafia. Here’s the video.
The video starts with Gaga emerging from what looks like a high-tech coffin or maybe a sensory deprivation tank.
At the beginning of the video, she is deprived of her senses. Either her eyes, her ears or her nose are covered. Sensory deprivation is a torture technique used on prisoners or mind controlled slaves in order to “break” them and to facilitate their re-education. She is a beginner, an amateur and she doesn’t really know what she’s doing.
Gaga can’t see or hear anything
In one scene, she is wearing thick sunglasses and talking to herself through a mirror.
This is reminiscent of The Who’s Tommy movie, where a deaf, dumb and blind boy only becomes responsive when staring at the mirror.
The Who’s Tommy is a movie about a boy who becomes deaf, dumb and blind after a traumatic event.
Gaga then bathes herself to “wash off her sins” as Gaga said in an interview about the video. She is “wide-eyed” and innocent but we’ll see that she’ll gradually turn into a “Fame Monster”.
Innocent Gaga taking an innocent bath with her big innocent eyes
She is then roughly handled by two women. She fights them but she finally accepts her faith and even raises her hands in praise.
Throughout the video, there is a back and forth between her being forced to go through her duties as a slave and her willingness to go through them. She is then forced to drink some vodka, which is in fact an MTV-friendly substitute for drugs. Mind controlled sex slaves are heavily drugged to numb their thoughts and make them easy to manipulate.
Gaga is then undressed and forced to perform in front of a bunch of men. Those mafioso can represent the Illuminati, the dark force ruling the music industry. The masks represent their hidden nature. Each individual represents a record company, and they are bidding to see who will sign her.
Gaga seems to be well aware of what is happening and she chooses to charm a particular guy, who seems to have what she wants. The masked man seems to enjoy what is happening to him and bids to obtain her.
One second left to the auction for the services of Lady Gaga
Gaga is then required to fulfill her duties as a sex slave by…you’ve guessed it… having sex with the winning bidder. So she proceeds into a very symbolic room.
Her hands are strategically placed under the horned heads. Immediately after, a fire ignites the room.
On each side of the bed are gazelle heads, who symbolically refer to Baphomet, the horned idol of Western occultism.
If you’ve read my other articles on the music industry, you already know of the frequent use of the likeness of Baphomet in music videos and pictures. My past articles on Gaga have shown her posing in the same way as the image above. Strategically placed horned heads have appeared in her past videos and photo shoots. Having said that, the presence of those horned heads in that room is not merely decorative, it is very symbolic.
Gaga is “offering herself” at the altar of Baphomet in order to become initiated and accepted into the Order. She does not want “to be friends” with the music industry, she wants to be an insider (she’s not a “Fame Monster” for nothing). So this offering gets consumed by fire, and not sex, because it is about Baphomet and not the Russian guy. He was just a means for her to obtain what she wanted..fame.
When the fire starts, another scene plays simultaneously showing Gaga and masked dancers dressed in red, the color of sacrifice and initiation. The virginal white garments she wore during most of the video are replaced by bloody red, a visual confirmation of the fact that she is now initiated and accepted as an insider. In my article on the 2009 VMA awards (article here), we see that Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift start out the show wearing white garments and, after a symbolic performance, they appear completely dressed in red. The codes of the music industry seem to be used over and over again, in videos, award shows and photo shoots.
Gaga then makes her trademark “Eye in the triangle” hand gesture after her initiation to make it clear who owns her now…the Illuminati.
The final scene shows Gaga lying in bed with the burned skeleton of the Russian mafiosi.
Notice how everything is burnt except the two gazelle heads. The real “intercourse” happened between Gaga and Baphomet. The guy was a tool, a middle-man who was sacrificed in the process of Gaga’s initiation.
So Gaga basically went through the steps a mega-pop star has to go through in order “make it big” in the music industry. She ultimately got what she wanted and apparently played the game on her own terms. Let’s see how that works out for her.
Other Symbols
Aside from the main storyline, the video is riddled with numerous symbols and images which are occult in nature. Here are some of them:
There are many symbols referring to the sun in the video. As said above, Ra is an Egyptian sun god who is mentioned many times in the magic incantation-like “Rah-rah” chant. Sun worship has always been at the center of occult mysteries as it is considered to be the ultimate representation of God.
Image of the sun in the razorblade shades. She is wearing a golden dress. Gold is representative of the sun in occultism.
Golden sun light bringing her back to life
Gaga at the center of planetary orbits
Anti-Christian Sybolism
Christianity has always been at odds with occult secret societies. Persecutions and accusations come from both sides and one often defines itself by the negating the other. This is also represented in the video
The word “Monster” with a Christian cross underneath it creates a not-so-subliminal unconscious association
The cross associated with the word “Monster” is also seen on her promotional pictures:
Notice the postion of her hands. It speaks for itself.
A cross placed right on her “privates”. No matter what religion you are, you know this is not a sign of respect
Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance is by far the densest and most symbolic video I’ve ever analyzed. It is a metaphorical yet accurate description of the steps which must be taken in order to become part of the “mega-pop-star machine”. Submission, control, business negotiations, initiation, secrecy and the embrace of dark forces are all represented in the video. Once decoded, the song describes indeed the Bad Romance of the music industry. The machine uses artists, it pimps them, it cheats on them with new, hotter artists and it finally dumps them when the initial appeal is lost.
Gaga, the “Fame Monster” wants to be treated that way, knowing that there is not other way to obtain world-wide fame. One might be extremely creative and talented, however fame can only be achieved through the exposure provided by the media corporations. They are owned by a secretive elite, represented by the masks on the faces of the bidders in the video. Bad Romance, more than simply serving the required dose of subversive symbolism to the MTV generation, offers a chilling description of a music industry ruled by the elite.
didnt people read the opening paragraphs? if you dont like it then dont post. don't you guys like to think into what your faves present on the screen? anyways..i find this really interesting. not because its lady gaga but its just that the symbols are so blatantly obvious.
so yeah this will be my only post in this thread as usually my posts in relation to topic such as satanic symbols in video clips gets stans mad and delusional.
I don't get these occults, I think they are stupid. They need to get a life. If they don't want to well then get a job and study REAL cults not that fake ones they make up
