WMG / Lady Gaga

Note: This covers her songs and music videos and not Lady Gaga herself.

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The chronology of Gagaverse

The Gagaverse in chronological order are as follows: John Wayne, Magnetic Baby, Lovegame, Shallow, The Edge of Glory, Yoü And I, Million Reasons, G.U.Y., Poker Face, Judas, Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say), Rain On Me, Just Dance, Bad Romance, 911, Chillin, Applause, Video Phone, Beautiful, Dirty, Rich, Perfect Illusion, Marry the Night, Paparazzi, Why Don't You Love Me, Telephone, Alejandro, Born This Way, Stupid Love, Joanne.

• In John Wayne Lady Gaga is describing her frustrations with the urban dating scene, hoping to meet a conservative wild, rugged cowboy.
• In Magnetic Baby Lady Gaga meets a musician and is taken with him.
• In Lovegame Lady Gaga and the musician begin dating, or as she puts it, "Play a Lovegame" which may indicate she isn't that serious about the relationship or doesn't have faith in it.
• In Shallow she ultimately realises that she wants to pursue this further and make it more serious.
• In The Edge of Glory she tells him of her decision to make it official. The experience is joyous and exhilarating.
• In Yoü And I continues the honeymoon phase, she's glad to have him in her life and things can not be better.
• In Million Reasons the relationship is now faltering, she wants to leave and needs convincing not to go. He succeeds and they stick it out.
• In G.U.Y., she starts exploring her kinkier side to keep the relationship alive. She starts telling him her sexual desires and pleasures, allowing her better control of the sexual dynamics between the couple.
• In Poker Face she begins losing interest in the guy and starts to fantasize about women, "bluffin' with my muffin'" but keeps it to herself and does the best she can to hide it from her boyfriend, "he can't read my poker face".
• In Judas her bisexuality causes an inner conflict with her good ol-fashioned religious values identified earlier. She is scared of being judged and attacked for something she can't control.
• In Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say) she confides in her friends about her doubts and newly discovered bisexuality and they advise her to end it, "but my friends keep tellin' me somethings wrong" so she decides to end the relationship but tries to do it as nicely as she can, "I didn't mean to hurt you" "Nothing Else I Can Say".
• In Rain On Me she is feeling down about the end of the relationship, but she reassures herself that she'll be fine and the clouds will soon clear.
• In Just Dance she and her friends go out partying to help her get over her boyfriend and maybe meet someone new but she drinks too much, "I had a little bit too much" and they get seperated and Gaga slowly realizes what's happened, "What's the name of this club? how'd I turn my shirt inside out" and tries not to panic, "Just Dance, gonna be okay" unfortunately she's kidnapped and ends up in the hands of the Russian Mafia.
• In Bad Romance she puts on a show for potential buyers until the man she gives a lap dance to(possibly her ex-boyfriend?) purchases her and she kills him and escapes, though because of the events she's started to become unhinged.
• In 911 she's noticing these behavioural issues get out of control and she ends up turning to medication to cope with the stress and trauma brought on by the killing.
• In Chillin she starts her musical career and is gradually becoming more successful, "Look at how they're lookin' at me Eyes all sticky like honey on bees" "Stuntin' in my billionaire Gear on my millionaire friends" but she's not well known everywhere, "Drivin' my car to a foreign place Lookin' at me, now they know my face".
• In Applause Gaga's obsession with developing her fame and stardom continues. Gaga has found happiness in the attention she receives from the crowds and wants more.
• In Video Phone Lady Gaga meets and befriends B.B. "Honey B" Homemaker and Honey B meets and falls for Tyrese Gibson, and with Gaga as her wingman woos and seduces him.
• In Beautiful, Dirty, Rich Lady Gaga has finally become very rich and successful, "We're beautiful and dirty rich" and gets a new boyfriend.
• In Perfect Illusion Lady Gaga starts to think something isn't quite right with her position in life. Her life starts to crack at the seams.
• In Marry the Night the fame gravy train has well and truly ended, she is dropped from her label and breaks down as a result. She starts hallucinating that she is still famous anyway.
• In Paparazzi Lady Gaga finds out her boyfriends only dating her to make himself famous and he accidentally drops her off of a balcony, causing her to be put in a body cast and for her to become a laughingstock, Hitting rock bottom she stays with him and he continues to leech off of her, eventually she gets better and goes off the mental deep end, killing her boyfriend and then telling the police and the press about it, resulting in her arrest and return to fame.
• In Why Don't You Love Me all is not well for B.B. and Tyrese, they've married and Tyrese has become cold and abusive and forced her to alienate all of her friends (i.e. Gaga), after having a breakdown she decides to break Gaga out of jail.
• In Telephone Lady Gaga is brought to jail and makes a name for herself, but is quickly bailed out by Honey B who tells her about Tyrese and asks for her help in killing him, after Gaga makes sure her friend really wants to do this and live with the consequences, "Once you kill a cow you gotta make a burger" and making sure she B has forgiven her and that she can trust her "'You know Gaga they say trust is like a mirror, if it's broke you can fix it' 'But you can still see the crack in that motherfuckers reflexion'" Also eating out of eachothers hands and sharing food could be seen as a sign of their closeness returning, B and Gaga then procede to kill Tyrese and celebrate, but their celebration is cut short by the police and the flee.
• In Alejandro Lady Gaga has come to rule the world, and I'm not sure what else yet. She laments about how she has had many lovers on her way to the top, all of which have either died for her or she has thrown away. Most notably she regrets doing this to Alejandro, and begins to recover from her insanity.
• In Born This Way, Gaga is once again sane and does her best to make the world a better place, but eventually has to make her own paradise in GOATS (Government Owned Alien Territory in Space) as humanity recovers from her rule. it is during this time that she mutates into Mother Monster. She and her scientists are able to cause the birth of the New Race, the little monsters, from both Gaga and humanity, but this is such a strain that Gaga's good and hopeful side is split and the insanity reemerges, and the two are constantly battling one another to control her body. The Evil side protects the little monsters, but at the same time prevents them from entering the world because it would not accept them. Eventually the firstborn monster, who takes on Gaga's name, leads a revolution and a few are able to escape. The new Gaga is seen exiting a club and reveling in her freakishness before riding off on her unicorn.
• In Stupid Love the escaped Gaga has now found a new world to shape in her own image, "Chromatica". Initially a benevolent world ruled by the dominant Kindness Punks, tensions soon emerge and rival factions emerge before an all-out dance war breaks out. This is quickly put paid to and all the Chromaticans dance happily ever after.
• In Joanne Lady Gaga has now passed away, her story now a thing of legends and and inspiration to the future generations.

Now go and write fanfiction!

Thoughts?

• Where does "Magnetic Baby" fit into this?
  • He's the boyfriend.

• Clearly it's easy to add Born this Way into it (well, the video anyway) : it's the Gagaverse's Creation Myth. But what about Judas ?
  • Now incorporated as of 2021.

The "Bad Romance" video does have a plot, or at least a coherent premise.

It's set in a dystopian future. The man in the metal chin plate is a member of the ruling elite who used to be Lady Gaga's boyfriend but had her committed to the Bedlam House/ high-price brothel in which the video is set when he got sick of her. The two women in white force-feeding her vodka are orderlies; the backup dancers are her fellow inmates. Eventually, her ex decides to visit the place, they have sex again, and she gets her revenge by incinerating the jerk.

• No, Metal Chin Plate Man was the owner of that facility, and it's the place where he trains his Dark Action Girls disguised as a bedlam house. But they failed at brainwashing Gaga, and she kills The Chin Plate Guy to set herself and the other inmates free.
• No, it was about an abusive S&M relationship. She was purchased, brainwashed to her Master's wants, and forced to love him. (Hence the "Want your Bad Romance.") That's why she's crying near the end: she finally realizes what's happened to her, sobs, shakes it off, and sets up a trap to kill him. She struts over to him in her usual weird fetishy getup. Then BAM, spontaneous combustion. No one is the wiser.
• According to The Other Wiki:
  "The main idea behind the video is that of Gaga being kidnapped by a group of supermodels who drug her, and sell her off to the Russian Mafia. It takes place in a fluorescent white bathhouse. The video begins with Gaga sitting in a white throne, wearing a golden dress and glasses made from razor blades. She is surrounded by several people and her signature harlequin Great Dane. She has her finger on the mute button of an iPod speaker (from which a synthesized excerpt of the fugue in B minor from Book 1 of the Well-Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach emanates as an intro to the music video), and when she presses it, "Bad Romance" begins to play. Sunlight begins to pan across the walls of a bath house activating the fluorescent lighting, and a sign is shown that reads: "Bath Haus of GaGa". A group of dancers wearing white long-sleeved leotards with knee high boots and matching crowns crawl out of white, egg-shaped pods. The center pod has the word "Monster" written on it, and Gaga emerges from it wearing a similar outfit to the dancers, who begin to dance behind her. When the chorus of the song begins, two women pull her out of a bathtub, rip her clothes off and force her to drink a glass of vodka. As the second verse begins, Gaga, wearing a diamond-covered outfit complete with a crown, seductively dances for a group of men bidding on her. She straddles one of the men and performs somewhat of a lap dance on him. Afterwards, he raises his bid and becomes the highest bidder for her. When the chorus is played for the third time, Gaga is shown wearing a faux polar bear hide jacket. She walks toward the man, who is sitting on a bed, unbuttoning his shirt. Gaga has a look of indifference on her face and removes her jacket and sunglasses. Suddenly, the bed spontaneously combusts with the man still sitting on it. The video ends with Gaga lying beside a smoldering skeleton on top of the destroyed bed with ashes everywhere. She smokes a cigarette, while her pyrotechnic bra activates."
  • Now that's just boring.

The "Bad Romance" video is set in the Firefly universe.

The pods Lady Gaga and her dancers emerge from look suspiciously similar to the pods seen at the hospital in "Ariel," as a helpful anon pointed out in a fandom secret.

• I like the idea, if only because of the idea of River and Gaga teaming up for great justice. Or madness. Or both. One thing's for certain; neither will be wearing pants.

Bad Romance is a Take That! directed at The Twilight Saga.

Think about it.

• :/◊

Most of the video for Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" is a dream or a hallucination.

At the start of the video, she's getting touchy-feely with her 'boyfriend' and then she falls or gets pushed off a balcony. The rest of the video is a dream that she has while unconscious or dying, which explains why it's so damn weird.

• A better plot summary is this: Lady Gaga's love flame tries to exploit her for money from the paparazzi; when she resists his advances, he has a fit of rage and throws her over. She proceeds to go from being paralyzed to physical therapy (the sequence where she tries to walk in her gold body brace) until she's back in shape. She goes back to her 'partner' (who thinks nothing of it — after all, plenty of starlets put up with worse) and then colorfully murders him. Calling the police on herself may seem strange at first, but its a Batman Gambit}: See how the tabloids respond? The video is about how people's obsession with the fame and the culture that surrounds Hollywood is completely insane. When the Gaga character is a victim of near-murder, the media makes fun of her; but when she does murder someone, they treat her like a hero. Draw your own comparisons to how insane, unfair, and backwards the tabloid media in Real Life is.

Bad Romance (song and video) is about Opal Koboi and Briar Cudgeon (and Lady Gaga ships them)

All the lyrics fit. For example, in the first verse, Lady Gaga says "I want your ugly, I want your disease." In The Arctic Incident, Opal is always thinking how ugly Cudgeon is, and actually says it to him one time. "Disease" could be an extension of this, also referring to how Cudgeon is kind of insane in TAI - and, of course, there's the line in the second verse, "I want your psycho." The song also contains the line "I want your love, and I want your revenge." In TAI, Cudgeon wants to take revenge on Commander Root, and is working with Opal to achieve this. The end of the video seems similar to, and may represent, Cudgeon's death at the end of TAI.

• The guys in the video, according to The Other Wiki, are supposed to be the Russian Mafia, who are the other antagonists in TAI besides Opal and Cudgeon. Coincidence? I don't think so.
  • I thought I was the only one who linked the two together! Good job troper!

Lady Gaga's Bad Romance is about Renesmee seducing Jacob.

While she knows French and has a thing for Hitchcock films, she only looks mature ("You're a criminal as long as you're mine"). Plus, "Gaga" is an appropriate name for an 18-year-old toddler.

• Or...

"Bad Romance" is about Severus Snape.

Specifically, it's about his unrequited love for Lily Evans Potter. What gives this WMG credibility? The insistence that "I want your love, I don't wanna be friends." They were friends, but he always wanted more. Why is it a bad romance? Because some deep, subconscious, stable part of Snape's mind knows that his one-sided, obsessive love for her is unhealthy, but he can't stop loving her. His use of Hitchcock movies tells us all of his fantasies about her (and, because his father was a Muggle, it's not unreasonable to suggest that he saw any of those movies at some point, or at least knows about them).

Bad Romance is about an alien princess getting revenge on her human conqueror with Death By Sex.

It would explain the bizarre video. Think about the line "all your love is revenge" ... and the way that in the video Lady Gaga almost looks like she's being presented to a bunch of guys engaged in vaguely Roman-style debauchery, and in some shots she has freakishly large eyes and what looks like spikes on her back - plus the bizarre outfits. She's seducing him with the promise of "Bad Romance" - when really she means Flaming Death by Sex. It would explain why she sets the guy on fire in the end and then is seen sitting calmly in the charred bed jauntily smoking a cigarette. She's gloating over the corpse of the one of the guys who enslaved her people!

• That. Is. Awesome.

"Bad Romance" is a Spiritual Successor to "Copacabana".

Or it could have taken place between the time of Tony's death and Lola's derangement. Copa is represented by the bathhouse/brothel, where Lola remains a showgirl. She just changed her name because she was so deppressed. The guy she's dancing for is Rico—and note how the physical attributes can be considered appropriate—which is why she wants revenge and kills him at the end of the video. And once Lola finally kills him, she loses her mind entirely.

The video for Telephone is proof that Lady Gaga is contagious.

And that her goal of turning life into a Singing Is Serious Business Anime is coming closer to being a reality.

The blatant Product Placement in the Telephone video is strategic.

Considering Lady Gaga's love of symbolism and cultural commentary, the "un-subtle" use of Product Placement was very likely premeditated and intentional (not least because she had to pay for everything somehow). Those who complain about the product placement do so because she was actively confronting the viewer with it. I don't know if I'm explaining this right. Anyone else see what I mean or have anything to add?

• All the people whining about the Product Placement are probably completely missing the point, considering that it's her and she never seems to do anything un-ironically.
  • Even ironic product placement is still product placement. There have been studies — just SEE it and the ad's done its job, ironic or not. As one of my favorite writers explained, irony is "a leaky condom — in fact, the same old condom advertising brings over every night."
  • No one said that it wasn't intended to be actual Product Placement (clearly she has to pay for everything somehow). She still managed to parlay it into a commentary about consumerism. That's what Lady Gaga does: She both utilizes and subverts whatever subject she tackles in her videos.
    • Everything is grist for the mill, agreed. But rather than "tackling subjects," would it be more accurate to describe a Lady Gaga video as a collage of calculatedly-fetishistic images and symbols?
    • Considering that it appears that Lady Gaga redesigned her entire act for Money, Dear Boy with everything she does, I don't see much irony there. Or rather, she is ironically laughing all the way to the bank. I don't dismiss her artistic abilities, but there is zero doubt in my mind she decided she was going to bring in lots of cash.
• I've always felt that part of the lyrics were designed with Budweiser in mind and the "Cause I'm out in the club and I'm sippin' that bubb" would have been "sippin' that Bud" if Budweiser would have agreed to cough up the cash.

If Lady Gaga and Rammstein ever teamed up, the world would end.

And it'd be fantastic.

In the Telephone video, Tyrese is a pimp and Honey B. is one of his "working girls."

This makes a lot more sense than the common assumption that he is supposed to be her boyfriend. This also clarifies why she spends a portion of the video in what appears to be a motel room. Not to mention why she wants him dead.

Beyonce's video and song 'Why Don't You Love Me' explains her part in the video of 'Telephone'.

• Think about it. In the song she's asking her husband or boyfriend why he's such a jerk. One can theorize that the man she is addressing is played by Tyrese Gibson in Telephone. Also in the video for Why Don't You Love Me Beyonce's name is B.B. Homemaker. One can also theorize that Honey B is a nickname for B.B. Homemaker. Beyonce looks distraught in Why Don't Love Me but in Telephone she finally decides that she should get revenge with the help of GaGa.
  • If you accept the premise that Bad Romance precedes Paparazzi, Gaga and Beyonce have been creating their own video miniverse for about a year or so. In Bad Romance, Lady Gaga escapes the human trafficking circuit. She gradually becomes famous, and meets Beyonce during Videophone. But eventually her psychological issues overwhelm her and she acts out by killing her boyfriend in Paparazzi. Honey B then comes to her rescue in Telephone; but thereafter an inverted Y: The Last Man scenario occurs and Gaga is the last woman on earth during Alejandro.

Bad Romance is about a psychiatric patient lusting for her therapist.

Again, explains the bizarre video. Plus, it explains why she wants his "psycho" and his "disease" and other things most girls wouldn't want. And "you're a criminal as long as you're mine" - it's illegal for a therapist to have a sexual relationship with a patient in most places.

In the music video of "Alejandro", the United States of Gaga have crumbled into a gothic, dystopian dictatorship.

The scenes with Gaga addressing Alejandro seem much more like a queen addressing her people, and the black, oppressive tone of the video is symbolic for the claustrophobic and ultimately suicidal political climate of what was once a sunny, faintly Ruritanian nation. Gaga in her habit, swallowing a crucifix is symbolic for the way now-Empress Gaga has been turned into a pseudo-Catholic martyr-figure, whose religious veneration is also tightly linked with her sexuality — hence the red cross over her groin. Empress Gaga is in power only as long as she is potently sexualized, but looking at a great deal of the sexually suggestive choreography, it is obvious the sex is oppressive, impersonal and in fact, damaging her. It is more like an assassination attempt or a struggle, far more resembling the abusive lover she grapples with in the music video for "Paparazzi". The only men other than her consorts Gaga can trust are her Latin Lover bodyguards and soldiers, who are all fiercely loyal and fiercely sexually uninterested. The rioting and leather-clad militaristic figures are indicative of another totalitarian state aiming to overthrow her corrupt, decaying court, but Gaga is holed up in a darkened bunker somewhere with only her gay bodyguards for comfort, waiting for the end. In the final act, it appears as if her own men turn on her, and the struggle is again reminiscent of the very kind of brutal, dispassionate intercourse the Empress was trying to escape. But it quickly turns into another orgy as she surrenders herself to them, stripping off the religious garb and leaving only her vulnerable naked state. In the final frames, she lies dead and embalmed, her arms-akimbo stance bold and confrontational compared to clutching the crucifix earlier in the same outfit. She has committed suicide, but still her loyal Alejandro waits by her bedside.

• This seems... like a pretty reasonable interpretation, though the implication in the last few frames then is that she's either Ascending, Descending, or some sort of horrible alien ala the Goa'uld.
  • Or alternately, the distortion (similar to melting film) is symbolic for how public opinion of the Empress collapses after her death. Gaga is some kind of Fantasy Counterpart Culture Eva Peron, whose sexuality is figuratively (or literally) the only thing keeping her nation together. When she finds pleasure and satisfaction in sex, the kingdom thrives, but as she becomes disillusioned and objectified, the kingdom suffers and dies. The whole thing is a metaphor for the real Gaga's quasi-Creator Breakdown regarding female agency in their sexuality. Gaga cannot perform if she is lonely and all her relationships are strictly sexual, and when the men she wants a romantic relationship with are romantically incompatible.
  • This oddly ties in with "So Happy I Could Die". When the only validating, quasi-mystical sexual activity you can get your hands on (as it were) masturbation, it's still better than nothing. Before it became all about partnered sex holding the nation together, er...

'Alejandro' confirms several of the above guesses.

Specifically, that Lady Gaga is indeed a super villain, likely of the Power Rangers variety.

• Due to this, a number of tropers have gathered together as the Power Rangers:Troper Force- follow the link and join- https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=fv8znfhp9n6qif3otg7z00tx&page=1#18 .

There is a narrative chronology to Lady Gaga's longer videos.

Specifically, it goes: Paparazzi, which ends with her in Jail leading to Telephone, which leads into her getting caught and found insane in Marry the Night that will eventually lead to her being sent to a mental institution for Bad Romance which upon her release results in her taking revenge through G.U.Y. which will eventually lead to her ruling the world in Alejandro, she is then overthrown, made unconscious and exiled to forcing her to retrace her steps leading to 911.

Lady Gaga, as shown in Bad Romance, is the female equivalent of Pyramid Head.

This is just the emotional response I get when watching that video.

• It makes sense, considering the ending of the video. Whether that's a representation of why she exists, or a brief cut to real life, it would further tie her to being a gender inversed Pyramid Head. Also the costumes on the other women towards the beginning employ many of the same psychological ideas as Pyramid Head's appearance.

"Alejandro"'s music video is a dystopian POV swap of Suzanne Vega's "The Queen And The Soldier".

• Just as one interpretation of "The Queen And The Soldier" would read, the queen is a young woman who once found satisfaction in being highly desirable and iconic, but now suffers in loneliness as only a prize to be won. "I've swallowed a secret burning thread / it cuts me inside, and often I've bled" is obviously a reference to the crucifix Gaga swallows, internalizing puritanical, stereotypically Catholic guilt about open sexuality even as she fights violently to oppose it, be who she actually is, and be sexually liberated.
  The young queen, she fixed him with an arrogant eye
  She said, "You won't understand, and you may as well not try"
  But her face was a child's, and he thought she would cry
  But she closed herself up like a fan.

And even more tellingly:

And he said, "I want to live as an honest man

To get all I deserve and to give all I can

And to love a young woman who I don't understand

Your highness, your ways are very strange."

Seeing the music video this way makes it a literal tearjerker for this troper.

"Alejandro" has something to do with the Holocaust, and victims of war in general.

Take a look at what the dancers are carrying right at the start.

• Wasn't this supposed to be obvious after the dancing Nazis showed up?

The lyrics to "Alejandro" are meant to make fun of Hispanic Soap Operas.

Because that would just be funny.

The entirety of the Fame Monster EP is a Take That! at Twilight.

Let's do a track-by-track breakdown of why this is so.

Track 1 - Bad Romance

This song is about Bella's lust for Edward, taken from her perspective. It also contains the stealth insult "You and me could write a Bad Romance." Twilight is usually regarded as:

• Bad
• A romance

Solid evidence. Plus, we've all seen that picture where Stephanie Meyer says "LOL I ALREADY DID" in response to Lady Gaga's singing of that particular line. The lyrics really make it seem like the singer (Bella) wants the forbidden "love" (riiiight) of Edward.

Continue on, it gets better.

Track 2 - AlejandroI'm sure we've all seen the "Team Jacob vs. Team Edward" shipping wars. They've even made it to commercials, for God's sakes! That's what this song is about, Bella's struggle to pick between the boys, and eventually picking Edward.

Track 3 - MonsterOnce again, Edward is the "Forbidden fruit", the demon. This is where the album changes from a semi-straight telling, to a parody/satire/deconstruction. Obviously Twilight is supposedly about staying celibate and showing control, but that's not what this album is about. Just like The Fame Monster is supposed to be the darker side of The Fame, it is also the darker side of Twilight, almost like what would happen if Twilight was even semi-realistic. If Edward and Bella were anything close to normal people as opposed to Mary Sues, they'd have rather a lot of rough and crazy sex. I mean, Edward's apparently quite the unintentional charmer. And everyone warns Bella against associating with the vampires. Of course, like the dumb bitch she is she ignores all the people being nice to her and does it anyway.

Here is where I believe the album stops being even remotely chronological. As such, for the sake of sanity and understandability, I'm going to rearrange the remaining tracks to make more sense.

The album also gets darker and even more sarcastic, and more abstract in its stealth parody.

Track 6 - TelephoneThis song could be the "odd one out" to the casual listener. Amidst all the darker songs, this silly and catchy song just does not seem to fit. However, if you look deeper, it is so much more. Twilight is vapid and stupid. The series is written at an immature level, and all the characters are shallow beyond belief. That’s what this song symbolizes. It has no real meaning besides "Stop calling me" (Or if you take Ms. Gaga’s explanation as fact, "Stop working and go have fun"). It is just as shallow as the characters in the Twilight series.

Track 8 - TeethThis one's obvious.

• Not to me.
  • As I recall, it's about sex involving biting. Vampires may bite their partners accidentally when they are getting into it. One of the final choruses is, "Help me man/now show me your fangs", which is ironic considering that sparklepires don't have fangs.

Track 5 - Dance in the DarkIt's pretty damn obvious that if Bella and Edward's relationship were to ever occur in the real world, it would be fraught with problems. Both have serious mental issues, there's a "Stalking = love" mentality, and Bella (supposedly) has bad self-esteem. The relationship is horrible and it's only because of Meyer's -ahem- "skill" as a writer that it is treated as healthy and fulfilling. This song shows exactly what will happen if people get into "Bella-and-Edward" relationships: Low self-esteem, crushing depression, and lots and lots of tears.

Track 4 - SpeechlessAnd here we have the final chapter. After the most hellish relationship one can imagine, Bella chooses to end it all instead of finding someone who isn't a creepy sparkling stalker that makes her feel like shit. This is a tragedy that happens all too often with teens in our world.

And there you have it. Lady Gaga's tragic, blisteringly realistic version of the Twilight Saga. There's only one song to explain left.

Track 7 - So Happy I could DieRemember when I said the parody would be more abstract in some tracks? Well here it is. Word on the street is that this song is about Ms. Gaga fantasizing about herself. It's common knowledge that Bella Swan is a Mary Sue of Stephanie Meyer herself. Perhaps she never masturbated to images of herself, but it is certainly wish-fulfillment... just like this song. Alternatively, this song could be a joke on how much "tough stuff" is completely ignored in the Saga. For example, periods. And masturbation. Either interpretation works.

Lady Gaga is a genius.

• And you Sir/Madame are as well!
  • Made of Win, dude. Made of Win.
• All this stuff about Alejandro referencing the role of Jacob reminds this troper of Brewdening Love where Jacob is often confused with Fernando, a Mexican gardener. Hence the choice of Latino names for the boyfriends in Alejandro… ?

Alejandro is a sad story.

My theory on the video is that Lady Gaga's boyfriend has just died (funeral in the beggining) and the other 3 people(Alejandro, Fernando, and Roberto) are suitors trying to get her love and attention. Being too nice, she says 'You know that I love you boy...' to try to let them down gently. The boys get her and try to seduce and rape her but they don't succeed. In the end, she tries to get her boyfriend back by doing black magic which is a taboo to the Alejandro's religion, so he sees her as a satanic demon. He kills her in the end but she comes back from the dead due to the black magic she was performing earlier, and the video ends...

Here's a few other things to explain;

• The marching in the beggining is the funeral ceremony and she watches them from her balcony.
• Her Evil Queen looking dress is actually her funeral outfit. She has a second one when she comes outside.
• The red thing(possibly candy) they were carrying earlier is an offering to her boyfriend that just died
  • Nope. It's the Sacred Heart.
• The men outside represented Alejandro, Fernando, and Roberto
  • Gaga was watching them and they were trying to impress her
  • When the men were pushing themselves down, it represented that Alejandro, Roberto, and Fernando were trying to push eachother away.
• The lyrics "But her boyfriend's like a dad, just like a dad" referred to ARF and not the boyfriend who just passed away
• The lyrics "Now he's gonna go and fight, gotta cool the bad" referred to Alejandro killing her in the end of the video
• The man who didn't have a bowl cut who wore the police outfit was the dead boyfriend looking down on her while he's in the afterlife
• The gun bra was to represent that she didn't want ARF and she was threatening them away.
• The men trying to strip Gaga of her clothes represented their love for her and how low they will go to.
• Klein is most likely the name of Gaga's dead boyfriend
• When uniformed men were marching by Gaga, were ARF acting as harsh as the Nazis to try to get her
• The video is not fully in the same order as the way I tell it
• When the video ends, Lady Gaga died with her eyes open and when she was being revived, the video ended and burned. The only reason it burned at the eyes and mouth was a coincidence.

Alejandro is a Take That! at The Twilight Saga.

"She's just a baby. But her boyfriends just like a dad, just like a dad..." Squick enough, but what happens in Breaking Wind? Jacob imprints on Renesmee, which basically means he'll be her dad until she's old enough to be his wife.

• Wait, Jacob is Woody Allen?

In Alejandro, Lady Gaga's character represents fanatical Christianity, Don't Ask Don't Tell and/or the US military.

Alejandro, Roberto and Fernado are a few of the gay soliders. The song is about rejecting them. ("Don't bother me. Don't call my name. I'm not your babe.") The scene where she's wearing pants is about them being sent home for being gay. Lastly, in real life Lady Gaga has made her opinion on the matter quite clear; so, the scenes where the tyrant gets her crosses stripped off and the when her face implodes represents getting rid of the darned policy.

The images in Lady Gaga's videos don't mean anything, she's just fucking with us.

It seems pretty in character.

• Maybe that is the meaning. Hmmm, thought of that?

In 'Alejandro,' the story is about a set of identical sisters

The first sister is a paraplegic evil queen who runs a prison/army camp in Siberia from her wheelchair. She can't have sex, and forces all of her younger sisters into celibacy, except for the youngest. The second sister is the nun, who is forced to sublimate her sexual desire into praying for everyone else in the video. The third sister wears the white outfit with red crosses all over the place, and she, too, combines fighting with religion to try and avoid any sexual contact - but she periodically takes on suitors (Alejandro, Fernando, Roberto are on the list) and after a while, she kills them (her older sister makes her do it), but she regrets it. She's a Paladin who's (technically) taken a vow of chastity. The last sister is the youngest who has been pimped out to all the soldiers ("She's not broken/ She's just a baby" is the oldest sister justifying that the baby of the family is too young to know what's being done to her), though at this point all of the soldiers are ridiculously confused about sex - they can't openly be gay, and they can't safely be straight, so what are they? - and all the sex they attempt is awkward and damaging. The woman of the machine gun bra is the goddess they invent for themselves - someone who perfectly encapsulates the dilemma of sexuality and war in their world. The entire song is a hymn to her sung by the various characters (note the repetition of the world "rejoice.")

• That is both Nightmare Fuel of the purest form, and beautifully reasoned. Made of Win, and a hat tip to you.

Lady Gaga's music videos intentionally follow the sequence of periods in art history

Bear with me, folks.

Just Dance, Love Game and Poker Face: Renaissance. Half-naked men and women cavorting in dramatic backgrounds, still standard, especially when compared with what comes next...

Paparazzi: Mannerism: Just a little bit out there, when compared with earlier works. Just like Mannerism!

Bad Romance: Baroque: Strong contrasts of light and dark, probably some Chiaroscuro in there somewhere, dramatic poses, ambiguity, tromp l'oeil (forgive my spelling, my French is abysmal!), and all things Baroque.

Telephone: Rococo: It's bright. It's colourful. It's silly. It has darker undertones. It's Rococo

Alejandro: Neo Classicism: Defined as bitching about politics through references to classicism; what has come before. The "Alejandro" video is a statement on "don't ask, don't tell", referencing Madonna videos.

Therefore, if we generalize, Gaga's next video is going to be very blurry and involve water lillies...

• Does "Eh Eh (Nothing else I can say)" qualify?

"Alejandro" is about the martyrdom of Saint Maria Goretti

Lady Gaga was raised as a Catholic girl in an Italian family. St. Maria Goretti was an Italian girl who is now held as a saint in the Roman Catholic faith, so Lady Gaga must have heard of her growing up.
Maria Goretti's story is a rather sad one. At the age of eleven, she was approached by an older man, a worker on her father's farm, named Alessandro. He wanted to "Do wrong with her". She refused him, and he stabbed her fourteen times. As she died, she forgave him. He repented of his sin, and Maria Goretti was canonized. Today, she is held up as an example of purity and chastity. Lady Gaga has taken this story and twisted it somewhat:

• "Don't call my name, Alejandro," "Don't bother me," "Don't wanna kiss, don't wanna touch," obviously, is Maria refusing Alejandro's advances.
• "She's got a halo 'round her finger around you" - Maria's holiness is teased here.
• "She's not broken, she's just a baby" - She had it rough, but using an eleven-year-old for a role model for all Catholic children is kind of silly.
• "But her boyfriend's like her dad, just like her dad" - We don't know if Maria Goretti wanted to become a nun, or what, but if she did, then as a nun she would be figuratively married to Jesus. Then, at this point in her life, prior to that, she would be figuratively dating Jesus. And Catholic theology sees God as a Three-Person structure, where Jesus is the Son and God is the heavenly Father, whom Maria obviously worshiped, are reflections of each other. Hence, her boyfriend's like her Dad, just like her Dad.

The video for Bad Romance is set in Hell.

The woman in "Alejandro" is America.

Lady Gaga says the song is about Don't Ask, Don't Tell, so this makes sense. The line about "She's got a halo 'round her finger around you" refers to the influence of conservative Christians in the US government, one of the primary factors in maintaining DADT. "Hot like Mexico" is a comparison of the government's treatment of gays to America's love/hate relationship with Mexico; "she" wants the benefits of both, but doesn't really want the society of either. In the chorus, she attempts to make Alejandro, Fernando, and Roberto (eg gay men) go away. However, "she's not broken/she's just a baby:" the nation is still relatively young and not beyond hope. The line, "Her boyfriend's like a dad" addresses the government holding America back with its strictness, in this case with regards to gays in the military.

• That ... actually makes sense. I would add that maybe the lyrics "She's got both hands in her pocket/And she won't look at you" might refer to the way LGBT issues so often get brushed aside by an uncaring government/society which doesn't want to acknowledge anything outside of hetero norms.

Alejandro is a prophecy from the future

It explains the absolute jarring Mood Whiplash from her previous work. You see, after her campaign to legalize gay marriage and repeal don't ask don't tell fail, she is forced to take more drastic action by staging a revolution and overthrows the American government. After assuming power and declaring freedom for the gays she slowly begins to become corrupted and uses her shirtless army to take absolute control. Eventually, her most loyal minion, Alejandro tries viciously to save her from herself but she ignores him. His only hope is to chronicle what she has become and send it to the past so that they can see what will become if they continue opressing homosexuals.

• To take it a step further, this should be evidence enough that the video is in fact, the Millennium Message.

All of the Lady Gaga music videos were written about the same defining chapter of her life.

It involved a romance that went bad when she became interested in someone else, which lead to her killing him, and becoming famous and rich for it. Paparazzi is the most true to the actual event, but all of the other songs are written about various emotions and feelings she had throughout this stretch of time.

• That is the truest thing on this page and makes total and complete sense. Honestly.

Love Game is addressed to Edward Cullen

The line I wanna take a ride on your disco stick proves it. Because Edward is sparkly. And disco balls are sparkly.

• This explains the usage of a disco ball to cover the Edward Expy's "disco stick" in Vampires Suck.

Alejandro is about a foursome.

But she doesn't want to be in a committed relationship with any one boy, as evidenced by the "cigarette, hush" line. The various shots of men in fishnets and high heels are people thinking that having a foursome with three girls is awesome, but three men in the act is gross and makes them gay (or Everyone Is Bi in the video, or it's just their kink). Most of the backup dancers are given identical outfits and haircuts because Gaga sees the boys as interchangable (Alejandro is the most persistant in trying to get her to date him alone, which is why he is glimpsed at the beginning and the end). The Nazi symbolism? People calling her a feminazi over her behavior (...or that is their kink). The nun outfit and rosary? It's either about the hypocritical views people have on the morality of sex, or she's left behind an ultra-conservative religious lifestyle. (Or again, that's their kink.)

The chorus of Telephone is now the outgoing message on Lady Gaga's answering machine or voicemail.

Because I wouldn't put it past her.

Dance In The Dark is Lady Gaga's future

Well, her prediction of it. She thinks she'll end up like the people mentioned in her song.Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, [JonBenet] Ramsey, Liberace, Jesus, Stanley Kubrick, and Princess Diana.

Love Game is written from the perspective of a desperate horny virgin nerd.

"You've indicated your interest I'm educated in sex, yes"? This is what it screams to me: The girl singing the song has no clue what is going on except the books and documentaries she's seen on human behavior, and the genetic message of her own raging hormones. The desperation in this song is piled on like gravy. She's standing in the corner of the club or party or whatever, wishing and wishing for somebody to come over to her and start coming on to her. Alternately, this is what she says when the guy approaches her that creeps him the fuck out and drives him away.

Just Dance, Bad Romance, Alejandro and Poker Face are all about Neon Genesis Evangelion characters.

Just Dance is about Shinji Ikari, the song referring to his uncertain feelings about being a Pilot. "Just dance, gonna be okay" refers to his doing what others tell him to or are doing, in the hopes that all will turn out right in the end.

Poker Face is about Asuka. The 'he' in the song refers to Kaji, who she outwardly is only in love with, and deluding herself that she is his girlfriend. However, she is also concerned with her growing feelings for Shinji, her unconscious mind rendering him as 'she' due to his social and mental weakness (compared to Asuka).

Alejandro is about Misato. "Her boyfriend's like her dad, just like her dad"; this refers to Kaji. "Stop, please, just let me go"; this refers to her on-off relationship with Kaji. The three men referred to in the song are Kaji, Shinji and Makato.

Bad Romance is about Rei. I have spent some time on this point.

• The opening represents Yui Ikari surrounded by other stylised images of the NGE cast. The fact that she looks exactly like 'Rei' in the rest of the video refers to the fact that Rei is Yui's clone.
• The entire song is about Rei's pseudo-incestuous relationship with Shinji, a "Bad Romance".
• The pods at the start represent Entry Plugs. Rei has a negative self-image, and contains the soul of Lilith, an Angel, and so her pod/Plug is marked with "MONSTER" and a cross.
• The Rei in the bathtub represents all Rei clones in the Dummy Plug System. She is happy and content, and unaware of her nature, until figures representing Naoko and Ritsuko Akagi pull her from the 'womb'.
• The Rei with the glowing spine represents Lilith, or possibly Rei in her Entry Plug/Rei clone in a Dummy Plug.
• The other pods are the other Pilots, the plugsuits and interface headsets turned into skintight unitards and crowns. Rei appears like them because Rei considers the Rei driving the Eva to be different to the Rei outside the Eva.
• Rei is forcibly sold by Ritsuko and Naoko to Gendo Ikari, shown as Gold-Jaw. The golden jawplate represents Gendo's beard, obviously. The other 'buyers' are Nerv personnel, those that Rei does not really interact with and who she vaguely blames for her servitude to Nerv.
• "I'm a freak bitch, baby"; this line refers to Reis only semi-human status.
• The end of the video is a representation of Rei/Lilith excluding Gendo from Instrumentality. The red-dressed dancers are other souls during the process, and Reilith lies next to Gendo, the lackluster fireworks representing how Earth is simply abandoned, silently, after Instrumentality.

In the music video for Alejandro, Gaga's character is Akasha.

• With a dyejob, of course. All the men in her fortress are the surviving 10% of all the world's males, mostly gay and bisexual men, and the whole "kill most all of the men for the sake of a feminist utopia governed by me me me!" thing hasn't worked out.

Any other ideas below, please.

There will be a song about Death Note

The song will take place from either Misa's or Kira's point of view, as getting rid of the criminals in the world. As the song goes on, she will say about how she feels like a god, removing sin from Earth.

In Bad Romance...

Golden chin plate dude died because Lady Gaga emits an aura of pure camp that clashed so badly with his outward image of heterosexuality that he exploded of bicurious decompression.

Bad Romance is about The Joker and Harley Quinn.

It's all in the lyrics: "Caught in a bad romance" is Harley lamenting her love for the Joker. "I want your ugly, I want your disease" is a reference to the Joker's white face and physical state after Batman: Arkham Asylum. "I want your love and I want your revenge" is , from Harley's POV, how the Joker can't stand Harley and yet can't make himself get rid of her, and therefore goes all love-hate on her. "You and me could write a bad romance" is the Joker Breaking the Fourth Wall. "I want your horror" is the Joker's Monster Clown persona, and "I want your design" is the Joker being upredictable and being portrayed differently in different media. "You're a criminal as long as your mine" is Harley giving up her career for her love. "I want your Psycho" is self-explanatory.

• It could also be about Voldemort and Bellatrix from Harry Potter.
• This would explain why in her next video she runs off with another woman to poison people.
• Well; even if Bad Romance isn't true Marry The Night's video certainly plays like a Batman Villain Origin Story

All content produced by Lady Gaga is a Let's Play of a future surrealist video game, somehow sent to the future and made noninteractive.

Lady Gaga is the antagonist of the game. The goal? Press buttons, see what they do, and try desperately to survive. You're never sure who your character is. You win if you kill her, but fat chance in hell of ever getting that done. The game generally starts out very peaceful and normal, but as you progress, she gets madder and uses more of her Mind Screw abilities. All music and video content is made up on the spot. We've seen people lose a few times (the ends of Bad Romance and Paparazzi, albeit the latter used a continue, as seen in Telephone). The game sometimes uses recurring themes (see the beginning of Monster, which connects to Telephone). Whoever was playing during Born That Way evidently got a lot closer than any of us could ever see, actually getting some exposition out of her. The dead girls in Paparazzi were an attack by SOMEONE on SOMEONE, but I'm not sure if it was the player hurting Gaga or if it was Gaga hurting the player. In any case, the weird solos where we see Gaga in a different form are likely the places where she's vulnerable (ie the "hit me while flashing" bits).

Judas is about a Yaoi Fangirl writing Judas/Jesus fanfic, and her interactions with an anti-slasher

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"Highway Unicorn" has a strong connection with My Little Pony : Friendship is Magic

More specifically the song is about the episode "Fall Weather Friends" and even MORE specifically its about the pairing Apple Dash(Applejack and Rainbow Dash). I don't even think this because the obvious "unicorn" thingy, it goes deeper than that, the line During the beginning of the song the whole "run run" is referencing the "running of the leafs" and the race between Dash and Applejack. She mentions "Blonde hair", ok Gaga does have blonde hair but so does Applejack. There is also a line with something about Rainbow's and Syrup, in the episode Rainbow Dash(who's mane is well, rainbow color) gets stuck in syrup(It makes sense in context). Both people in the song are obviously strong individuals and Rainbow Dash and Applejack are both VERY strong mentally and physically. "She flies, with the fury of a saint in her eyes" both Rainbow Dash and Applejack fly during the running of the leafs(Dash is a peagusis)and Applejack flies with the help of a hot air balloon(again it makes since in context). There is also a lyric that states either "run run pony" or "ride ride pony tonight, we can be strong out on this lonely road follow that unicorn on the road to love", Twilight Sparkle(a unicorn) is ahead of them in the race so they would be following her. Lady Gaga has stated that her song "Born this Way" was inspired by My Little Pony, http://gossiponthis.com/2011/03/10/lady-gaga-single-inspired-by-my-little-pony/ .Albeit the older generations/toys but maybe she got curious about "friendship is magic" wanted to check it out,fell in love with the show, and then wrote the song. She also wore a necklace (http://idolator.com/5862171/lady-gaga-my-little-pony-necklace-photos/lady-gaga-160511-4 ) with characters from the show. Some people say that the necklace was given to her as a gift but in a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHbEMgYXH0U around 1:23 if you dont wanna watch it all) she is seen with the Rarity figure she has on the necklace. Idk maybe its cause i'm a huge fan of both Gaga and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic or that its like 6 a.m. but the theory seems pretty legit...

The "Born This Way" Hits could be arranged into a narrative

This isn't based on the videos, just on the songs.

• Hair: The heroine's life is ruled by her parents (and later, by her domineering husband) and she feels the only thing she can control is her body. She insists on keeping her hair long when her parents want to cut it short because her appearance is the only thing she has a choice in.
• Marry the Night: The female character marries a guy chosen by her parents through an arranged marriage. The marriage isn't happy at all, but she can't get out of it, so she looks elsewhere for love and starts going out at night while the husband is at work/asleep/away on business.
• Judas: The heroine realizes she is a lesbian and that she married the wrong sibling. She gets involved with the guy's sister. The sister feels guilty, like she's betraying the guy, but the heroine doesn't see the sister as Judas; she sees the husband as Judas for violating her boundaries (maybe he only saw his wife as property, not a person).
• Born This Way: The heroine reassures herself that she is not wrong for not liking men and tells her new lover the same thing when her family disowns her for being a lesbian.
• You and I: Eventually, the husband finds out about the affair and he's pissed. The two women don't know what he's going to do, but they suspect he's going to murder them both. They have to run away, but they live in a very strict community and the heroine is locked up, while the sister manages to leave town and hide in an inn (the heroine insists that she "save herself"). They try to "fix her," and suspect that her love for her husband's sister is a mental illness. The sister, however, will not leave without her lover, and goes back to the town to rescue her.
• Edge of Glory: The heroine and her lover are caught. Their community decides to punish them by burning them at the stake. They plan an escape that ends with them getting chased by villagers with torches and a Bolivian Army Ending.

The Story of Gaga (Lovegame->Poker Face->Bad Romance->Paparazzi->Telephone)

• (Love Game) Gaga is a young girl from the slums with beauty, charisma, and an amazing singing voice. She works as a stripper in backalley ‘clubs’, paid in cigarettes and booze. On New Year’s Eve, she meets a man in the subway, who promises to introduce her to the head of a prestigious record company in exchange for sexual favors. The company C.E.O. is enthralled the moment he hears her sing, and her first album becomes a wild financial success.
• (Poker Face) Gaga buys an expensive house overlooking the beach in Malibu, and spends her days in a wild frenzy of drunkenness and debauchery when she’s not busy recording. One night, she passes out after an especially long party, and awakes as a captive in the hands of the Russian Mafia.
• (Bad Romance) They drug her with aphrodisiacs and force her to perform in front of mob bosses, while an auction is held for possession of her body. She catches the eye of the richest man there, and he lands the highest bid just as the auction is closing. He cages her and puts her on a plane to his mansion in the middle of Siberia, where she is kept as a sort of pet. Gaga comes to her senses during the plane ride, though she pretends to still be under the influence of the aphrodisiacs, and murders her captor before commandeering a helicopter back to America.
• (Paparazzi) Shaken by her traumatizing experience, she falls back into the arms of her Swedish ex-boyfriend, who has become a member of a mind-controlling secret society. All is fine for a while, until the secret society orders her boyfriend to give her over to be brainwashed. Gaga, trusting her lover utterly, is tricked into entering the society’s hideout and captured once more. She rejects all attempts at programming, and her frustrated boyfriend tries to kill her. His superiors rescue her, while making it appear as though she had died, and successfully brainwash her into subservience. Gaga is sent to kill her ex-lover as a punishment for trying to terminate her without official approval, but has a short breakthrough of sanity after completing the murder, and calls 911 in a moment of panic.
• (Telephone) She is tried for murder, found guilty, and sentenced to prison for life, but the police are bribed to release her by another operative of the society called Honey B. The two are ordered to assassinate an escaped member, but accidentally poison an entire diner full of people in the process. Their mission complete, the pair drive their truck off a cliff and commit suicide. Meanwhile, the police search for the perpetrators of the Telephone Massacre, but their search proves to be unfruitful and they abandon investigations after several months.

Marry The Night's Video is the Origin Story for a new Batman Villain.

http://www.vevo.com/watch/lady-gaga/marry-the-night-official-video/USUV71101489?source=ap

The video starts out with her getting treatment in a mental facility afterwhich her life starts to fall apart. She makes it clear that she's determined to be famous at any cost and seems to recover from whatever sent her to the hospital but eventually ends up having a breakdown and setting a bunch of cars on fire to get her 15 minutes of fame. By the end we see she's turned into some sort of crazy fire monster

"The Edge of Glory" is an extended metaphor for sexual intercourse/orgasm.

Apologies if this isn't really WMG.

Lady Gaga likes to change people's sexes for no reason

• As she does in the "Lovegame" video

"Born This Way" is actually a ripoff of a different song with the same name

• The song is not a ripoff of "Express Yourself" as it has been claimed. The song is actually a ripoff of the rather obscure Dusty Springfield track called "Born This Way". Both tracks are upbeat gospel inspired house tracks filled with affirmation. And not necessarily a ripoff but more like Gaga heard the song and decided she wanted the song from her then upcoming project to be like that song.

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