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Music Video: Lady Gaga - "Alejandro"
Member Since: 10/8/2009
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great ! video 
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Member Since: 5/7/2010
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Originally posted by Kirill
Yes, for the Hot 100. "Telephone" would've peaked at #5 if not streaming.
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I think I watched it over 200 times, I guess I can watch it about 50 more times in AOL
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Member Since: 11/6/2009
Posts: 7,375
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Originally posted by Kirill
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I watch on both.  Gaga should tweet the link again like Telephone.
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Member Since: 5/11/2010
Posts: 68
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Great video.
I just don't understand what kind of point she's trying to cross with it. I think it falls to some of her better videos. She went downhill from Telephone/Bad Romance!
Good, she could do better. The rosary. 
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Member Since: 10/7/2009
Posts: 4,752
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Originally posted by GagalooBabii
I think I watched it over 200 times, I guess I can watch it about 50 more times in AOL
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You all do that. What's the point in bragging about how many views she has when it comes from you guys watching hundreds and hundreds of times? 
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Member Since: 10/8/2009
Posts: 4,844
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Originally posted by yuminari.
LMAO I KNOW you aren't talking about someone "finding a musical identity" with that image-stealing parasite in your avatar.
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I know a Flea$ha stan isn't trying to go IN, considering that she stole her schtick from Uffie who drags Tra$ha in every imaginable way.
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Member Since: 4/24/2004
Posts: 7,295
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Member Since: 11/15/2009
Posts: 2,121
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Originally posted by starstruck52
You all do that. What's the point in bragging about how many views she has when it comes from you guys watching hundreds and hundreds of times? |
One person watching it 200 times does not equal 200,000 or so (don't recall the exact numbers). Nobody else posted about watching it that many times.
If you're so full of hatred for GaGa, why do you insist on visiting her threads?
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Member Since: 6/28/2008
Posts: 4,530
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I think the video is presented backwards, like one of the older posters said. It makes more sense that way, scene-wise, and it would explain why Lady Gaga is seen taking the necklace out of her mouth, but played backwards
The last scene is so similar to the last scene of Bad Romance... so if Alejandro's last scene is its chronological first scene, does that mean it's a continuation of Bad Romance? O_O
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Member Since: 12/16/2009
Posts: 868
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Originally posted by MrCookiepants
This.
I think this is one of her best. Production values through the roof, choreo was great and the imagery in the beginning was stunning. And even though it was long, it didn't cut up the song like the Telephone.
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 The production just takes things to a whole nother level... the intro made me feel like I was watching a movie in a theater or something..
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Member Since: 6/5/2004
Posts: 670
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why do people still try to find connections between gaga's music and videos?
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Member Since: 8/7/2006
Posts: 7,761
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Originally posted by GagalooBabii
I'm Christian and I don't see anything disrespectful in it
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what is wrong with you?
an upside down cross in her vagina does not bring anything on you?
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Member Since: 11/13/2009
Posts: 2,725
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Maybe it was already established, but still a dude on last fm. posted the video's meaning.
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The soldiers in this video are meant to represent the gay, transgendered and bisexual men in this society that are *expected* to be aggressive and fully ‘masculine’ men. Them marching around in synchronized form represents the role that they’re expected to play in society – Always marching in a tight pattern, never meant to branch off from that gender role. However, as the video progresses, you see Gaga in and out of scenes, wearing these religious outfits. Those outfits are symbols for the intense religious Christian-Catholic backlash that the LGBT community experiences from religious zealots with how they say that ‘gays are going to hell’, ‘you need jesus,’ ‘being gay is a sin,’ etc.
Gaga is not meant to be the focus of this video. Gaga is simply a symbol for how conflicting religion becomes when a gay man has to emotionally deal with accepting that he’s ‘gay’ when his religion tells him that it’s a sin. Gaga is a modern symbol of the virgin Mary – a cold, religiously bound woman who cares about serving and satisfying Christ. That’s very blatant and evident in what she wears, the crosses in the background, her swallowing rosemary beads, and so on. As the video carries on, you see her getting “felt up” by a man in a scene with various beds.
Those beds are metaphors for what gay men experience when they’re trying to fight their growing erections from their fantasies when trying to sleep at night. During the day, society pressures them to act a certain way, to truly be the biased aggressive man. But as soon as they’re alone, even if they still ‘look’ manly and assertive, their feminine aspect of their sexuality comes to the forefront and they express their fantasies in the dead of night. Also stands for the millions of gays, transgendered and cross dressers that can only show their *true* selves at night when greater society isn’t watching. These few scenes are increasingly sexual in order to show the massive, heated underlying sexual conflict that gay men experience within themselves. It’s restless, monsterous and almost unbearable because society tells them that they shouldn’t express their feelings towards other men.
“Alejandro” is a metaphor for society’s gender role of the aggressive man that society yearns for. The ‘nazi costumes’ are symbols that we are so bound to fulfill gender roles assigned by society to the point where we are psychologically placed into internment camps. Meaning that we’re forced to act a certain way in fear of being shunned, abandoned, alienated or ridiculed. When gay men get mixed up into that, they portray ‘nazis’ in this video or simply ‘strong military men’ to once again show the roles that they’re expected to play by culture’s eyes. Gaga is a symbol of how mainstream Christianity and Catholicism religions see the LGBT community. The ‘funeral’ represents the LGBT community ‘killing’ those mainstream biased gender roles.
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Member Since: 10/23/2007
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the orgy at the end reminds of me of christina's not myself tonight
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Member Since: 12/13/2009
Posts: 14,460
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Originally posted by ZeroGravity
Maybe it was already established, but still a dude on last fm. posted the video's meaning.
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Amen. If this is the interpretation, then wow. Hats off to her.
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Member Since: 3/28/2008
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First 3 minutes of the video is good,after that... 
An okay video for this epic song. 
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Member Since: 9/26/2009
Posts: 2,238
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 i'm listening now to Alejandro(mp3) the song changed , i think i like it now while thinking to this video 
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Member Since: 6/28/2008
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Originally posted by tcatron565
Anybody else feel like they were watching a bisexual ****o with a dozen guys and only one girl? 
WTF was up with the outfit she was wearing that had gigantic poles are her nipples?!
Why was she pretending to give anal to a guy?! Shouldn't it be the other way around!? |
I did too. :P
My first impression was that those poles were swords and her heart was stabbed.
EDIT: they are guns.... maybe they show that she can't give nutrition, she can only give hate and destruction?
I think that Lady Gaga is symbolizing a guy in this video. The scene you mentioned + the fact that there is what can be seen as a red penis on one of her outfits.
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Member Since: 11/13/2009
Posts: 2,725
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Originally posted by TheMusicProphet
Amen. If this is the interpretation, then wow. Hats off to her.
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IKR I warmed up to the video now and I quite like it.
Sadly, half the world will just watch the video and think Gaga's one crazy ass Illuminati.
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Member Since: 6/20/2007
Posts: 37,153
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OMG! I expected something completely different, is an unusual video, but Lady GaGa looks very rare and does not look good :-/, as in his other videos  ... the song deserved a special video and this is not
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