The biggest overarching reference seems to be Frankenstein. But instead of making a monster, he's making a Gaga.
If the scenes were presented in order of when they happened, it would play out like this: Gaga meets the man as Stefani, her raven-haired self, six years ago. The story is basically about how his love changed her and molded her into a better version of herself.
The barn is his laboratory, she is his creation. He takes her from Stefani to Gaga, which is shown by her hair changing from black to blonde.
Then there is phase two - taking her from The Fame/The Fame Monster Gaga to Born This Way Gaga. She and Luc started dating again in 2010 and he changed her even more.
This is when the scenes with the turquoise hair come into play, one of the looks she's worn quite a bit this era. You see during the second phase that she's showing resistance to his treatments, probably because she's unsure if she really wants to go through with his experiments.
At this point, she is a mermaid and you see Stefani is alone in the barn because that version of herself is only known to her and her boyfriend.
The scene of her alone in the chair and the scene of him looking into the glass chamber containing her seem to show that he's unaware that this version of her is still alive - He thinks it's frozen over at this point but Gaga knows it's still there inside of her mind.
In addition to learning how to love him, he also teaches her how to love herself. (This is represented with the scenes of her and "Jo Calderone" together in the cornfield. It's like the dichotomy of Gaga - both the light and dark, male and female parts of herself - that are only present in her mind.
This is why they're alone in the middle of the cornfield, because they only exist to her.) And at the end, you see she's finally marrying him as this completely pale and completely blonde version of herself, because she loves him so much and his love has destroyed all of the darkness within her... at least that's how it seems. It might still be there in her mind, a.k.a. the water-filled chamber in the barn.
No One half is real, the other is not.
Some of this description has a point, but whoever wrote this is thinking too deep.
Kirill, let's be real. How much of an impact did her videos have on the other songs this era?
a lot. judas is huge in europe because of the video, that's why it has almost 100m views despite being a complete flop in the states. even the edge of glory, I still see it 5 times a day on vh1
I don't believe that it would be possible to release different singles for different countries. maybe us/uk, but the rest of europe would just play both and it would be a mess
a lot. judas is huge in europe because of the video, that's why it has almost 100m views despite being a complete flop in the states. even the edge of glory, I still see it 5 times a day on vh1
I don't believe that it would be possible to release different singles for different countries. maybe us/uk, but the rest of europe would just play both and it would be a mess
I just hate it when artists release different singles for different countries. One is always gonna get overshadowed.
The instrumental is really really good, the song itself is bad with the lyrics.
The video is nice (some parts reminded me of Miley though ) but it doesn't fit with the song.
Her best video this era definitely.
I learned to not let her videos affect my perception of the songs.
Look at Alejandro. Awful video, amazing song.
it just bothers me cuz i stanned so hard for this bitch up until telephone video.
i LOVED HER.
but i was just waiting for another video where she was showing another side besides her weirdness. i understand she's weird and different and all the power to her, but sometimes it gets a little much especially in this video when she's a mermaid, whatever that thing is in the lab with the guy and when she's the dude on the piano, it just creeps me out and makes me dislike her more and more to the point where i just have to ignore her and her music completely - i respect her musically but i can only be someones fan when they have a understandable image.
One half is real, the other is not.
) but it doesn't fit with the song.
