Lady Gaga in "Alejandro" - vevo
It takes a long time for Lady Gaga‘s videos to premiere after they’re shot, but Little Monsters always forgive Mother Monster because she makes it worth the wait.
The stunning video for Gaga’s new single, “Alejandro,” from her platinum-selling album The Fame Monster premiered on VEVO today in all its Gaga-described homo-erotic glory.
Directed by Steven Klein, the over eight-minute long “Alejandro” video adds more fuel to Gaga’s epic video collection fire with its eye-popping visuals that are sexual without being crude, wholly creative without appearing desperate.
Some of the shots in the daring clip could make even Madonna (who obviously has a bit of homage paid to her in the video) sit back and say “Damn, I shoulda tried that!”, and the rest of Gaga’s pop peers roll their eyes with jealousy as they mutter “We shouldn’t even try!”
See it below — it might take a few views for everything to sink it
EPIC!!! This is the kind of thing I was hoping Telephone would be!
i love the video, and im trying to figure out who dies her video are always a puzzle luv it.
I LUV HER..I AM MORE OBSESSED NOW THEN WHAT I WAS B-4….YES SHE WILL F^%& WITH OUT HEADS…AND THAT’S THE BEST PART OF GAGA BEING WHO SHE IS….
I NEED 2 SAY..I AM A MADONNA FAN….GAGA IS MY MADONNA….SO..THANK YOU 2 MADONNA 4 SAYING TO ALL ARTIST THROUGH U’R VIDEOS…”IT’S OK TO B WHO U WANT 2 B”….
….”some of the shots in the daring clip could make even Madonna (who obviously has a bit of homage paid to her in the video) sit back and say “Damn, I shoulda tried that!”… ” – are you joking?? she actually thinks – i’ve done it all before, boring :)
heh…and another point – “obviously has a BIT of homage paid to her in the video…” – the question is: have you been watching this video with you eyes shut?
You seem mad. Xtina fan, perhaps?
how do you know?
Righto, I’m going to explain this video to everyone that’s either disgusted by this, indifferent, or simply fails to understand it.
BEWARE: LONG POST.
The soldiers in this video are meant to represent the gay, trans-gendered 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 and 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 GaGa being molested by many a man in a scene with various beds. These men are gay and this is why when the video ends, GaGa is praying, looking up to Heaven, and holding the rosary – she knows she’s going to hell because the bible condemns homosexuality and unfaithfulness – both of which she exercised in the course of the video, then we see her rot at the end of the video (presumably Satan coming to claim her).
Those beds are metaphors for what gay men experience when they’re trying to fight their homosexual thoughts 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, trans-gendered 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. In this scene, we see a complete contrast to the marching scene, where the men are fixated, orderly, and living in unison. However, in this scene with the beds, we see them lapse, becoming less robotic, less fixed and more natural and flowing, as loving men is their true nature and their ’norm’. It’s a restless, monstrous and almost unbearable scene 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 fulfil 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 for our sexuality, especially because the Bible condemns it. When gay men get mixed up into that, they portray the 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 to avoid discrimintation.
GaGa is a symbol of how mainstream Christianity and Catholicism religions see the LGBT community. The funeral scene represents the Catholics ‘killing’ men who go against what the Catholic religion teaches, which is why GaGa, as a bisexual woman herself, leads to procession in mourning. She is carrying presumably the nailed heart of (presumably) the man in the coffin to represent the treatment of gays: the Catholics would burn their lovers with in turn would be like nailing the remaining lovers’ heart, GaGa depicts here.
The continuous emphasis on showing one man as ‘Alejandro’ with a scene of a riot playing behind him represents how, despite his throbbing sexuality – he must fulfill his role as a ‘man’ by staying silent as he listens to riots break because if he were to speak out, a huge number of people would discriminate him.
There’s a lot to be learnt from this video, like how many flaws the Catholiuc religion actually has (it’s not okay to be gay [Leviticus] yet when it says you can’t eat meat on the Sabbath [Genesis], it’s okay to ignore that rule), and indeed how hard it must be for gay men to be confident about their sexuality, especially in a society like ours.
But yes one point I can see coming up is “but it has nothing to do with the song…” Well, yes, you’re right but also wrong – the song is about Lady GaGa’s “Fear of Sex Monster”, and so in the song she is proclaiming she wants to love this man but knows she can’t – “Don’t call my name… I’m not your babe”, because he is gay and it’s against her religion (as the Virgin Mary).
they’re rosary beads not rosemary beads, rosemary is a type of herb
i think it’s outright blasphemy
GAGA LOOKS LIKE AN OLDER CHRISTINA AGUILERA. LOVE CHRISTINA’S NEW SONG-SHE’S GOT AMAZING TALENT.LOVE RIHANNA’S ROCKSTAR 101.LOVE WILLOW SMITH ROCKIN THE RIHANNA HAIRDO-SO CUTE.GO SEE KARATE KID PEOPLE. SMOOCHES.
The gay dancers were great. They were the only ones great. I guess we know why they don’t want to get in bed w/ GaGa (YLGU); BWAHAHAHA its like Not Myself Tonight except they were bisexual & it was non hypercritical & she was sexy & beautiful. GaGa u r beautiful, no matter what I say only to fans.
on her other vids she was okay & fine but this one, she looks ugly as hell. Now I know why Alexander Skarsgard didn’t want to kiss her on Paparazzi BWAHAHA!
Hey pple
I luv gaga… Everything she does is so cool… Ive never seen anyone show alot of body parts on their video clips… And so many design!! Well gaga, keep it up!! L8das…
gaga scares me