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Originally posted by Cherry
What does me being a fan of Gaga have to do with the fact that a song about sex has nothing to do with the peace rally she's promoting in her video? No amount of interpretation can connect the two very different themes.
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Wow. The main message is just
accepting love - that's it. Love and peace commonly go hand in hand - hate and peace do not. There's
purposely vague lyrics so it can be wider reaching - some will see it only sexual, some will see it a lot more loving, depends where your mind is at the time. Some of the lyrics suggest sexuality because the media has oversexualized them - listening to a heart beat, touching someone, breathing deeply does NOT only equal sex, they're symbols of love too. And sex itself is an expression of love - it's extremely pessimistic and mildly disturbing to think they don't go together. By definition - In the absence of hate, there is love; in the absence of peace, there is war. War + hate go together, love + peace go together. Sex -> love = peace. Pretty simple. They're not different themes.
There's lots of hints in the song/video. The first line is "I want to tell you my SECRET" (very vague - can be just a crush you have, can be you keeping a secret about being gay, can be someone hiding they like their love for somebody of a different race, can just be a show of appreciation you haven't mentioned before, etc.). The chorus chants "don't want to FIGHT anymore because I want your touch" (don't fight the secrets/overthinking you've been doing needs to be disregarded and you simply need to
give in and embrace so you can love, and when you love you're in peace). "Turning me on" doesn't necessarily mean she's got a wet ***** - it means she's excited/engaged in the idea - a play on words with two interpretations. She's energized by the purehearted love surrounding her in all forms. So it's not a stretch at ALL to show images of a (secretly) gay man who stops fighting who he is and simply let's his love be shown. It's one of the more obvious interpretations of the song. How does showing an equality sign in the video not fit in then?
The only line that's purely sexual is "hit the right spot, making my eyes roll back" but it doesn't define the song, nor does it detract from the main message of "spreading love" since sex = love too, it's just another illustration of it. Listening to songs like Applause and suddenly think the one line about "nostalgia being for geeks" rewires the whole song to be about hipster's motives being questioned? No... it's extremely common for songs to kind of touch on multiple stories so YOU can make your own reflection and relate to it in your own way. You hear what you want to hear. There's not just one meaning.