In her video for her latest single 'Marry the Night', Lady GaGa takes us back to the darkest day of her life: the day she was dropped from her first record label. While it is an autobiographical video in many ways, what we are seeing is the artistic way that GaGa remembers that specific moment. The video is a mixture of reality and fantasy, and it is up to us as viewers to decide what is real and what isn't. I don't think this is my favorite GaGa video, but it is extremely interesting while clocking in at 13 minutes and 51 seconds, making it her longest video to date.
The Preldue Pathétique (making up the first 9 minutes of the video) basically sets up the whole plot line of the video as we see GaGa in the hospital for reasons unbeknownst to us at the time, then traveling back in time and reliving the moment she got the phone call and her rampage, then her picking up the pieces and becoming the star that she is today. This is where we see the pain and the anguish that GaGa went through, and what I'm sure many people go through as they're trying to break into the business. Even though the theme is very dark, GaGa makes it very comical at moments such as saying the nurse on the right has a great @$$, and as she bends over GaGa goes, "Bam." Another of my favorite moments is when we begin the
Fame-esque dance portion and she's beginning her comeback and she says, "You may say I lost everything. But I still had my bedazzler."
In this video GaGa brought a lot of references to pop culture by reflecting portions of
Black Swan,
Fame, and
Suckerpunch. The ballerina portion had to be my favorite because it included some Beethoven and GaGa's interpretation of ballet. It was just so beautiful and yet so mystifying. The
Fame portions were fun because we got to see lots of dancing, and the move from the back of the class to the front signified her rising from the ashes and finally becoming a star. The video then ends with her dancing in the street looking like the GaGa we know today with her mint-colored lipstick interspersed with various shots of the beginning of her career. And by the end we see that she has an appointment with Interscope Records.
GaGa has once again created a piece of art that transcends any normal music video. This is why she's a world-renowned pop superstar, and I can't wait to see what other creations of art she comes up with in the future.
"It's not that I don't want to see things exactly as they happened, it's just that I prefer to remember them in an artistic way."
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