After reading information on Pierrot's Wikipedia page, I'm leaning towards the fact that the single cover is a painting of his face. That character was viewed as a fool, someone naive. He kept falling for Colombine but she ended up breaking his heart and going over to another man. This reminded me a lot about the relationship Gaga had with Luc Carl. She kept getting fooled but she still loved him no matter what. She wrote numerous songs for him and she even dyed her hair blonde for him. It's as if he made her transform herself into something she didn't want or wasn't satisfied in, only to try to please him. "I'm just a holy fool, oh baby it's so cruel, but I'm still in love with Judas, baby" is similar to Pierrot's relationship with Colombine.
Also, Pierrot is a sad clown. His job is to entertain people in a form of theater called Commedia dell'arte. He is just a character, he's not real. It reminded me of Jo Calderone's speech in which he says that Gaga told him "Jo, I'm not real. I'm theater". And after each play, everyone applauds him long and loud but in the end, he's just a sad clown.
I love how interactive the Haus is. How in front of the camera they are. ARTPOP feels like one big collaboration. From them to us. That instrumental used in the legendary septum video should be one of the songs we get to mix in the app
I love how interactive the Haus is. How in front of the camera they are. ARTPOP feels like one big collaboration. From them to us. That instrumental used in the legendary septum video should be one of the songs we get to mix in the app
The app is one of my most anticipated parts this era. I feel like it's going to blow me away
Reasons why a Pierrot/clown/vaudeville theme for "Applause" would work:
1. What we can see in the single cover fits with Pierrot's image.
2. Vita don Teese, a famous burlesque dancer received a thank you letter from Gaga after music video filming concluded.
3. The hands Gaga was licking in the ARTPOP promo resemble puppet/dummy hands.
Ventriloquism was a part of vaudeville culture in the early 1900s.
4. Gaga has said herself that ARTPOP is "less serious" and "more immature."
