Lady Gaga's Music videos are very abstract, strange as well as imaginative. The whole of this music video has the atmosphere of a stage production almost a thriller. There is a lot of dancers that are synchronised which helps to suggest a rehearsed production. Lady Gaga plays the role of a mind-controlled and drugged sex-slave who is being prepared to get auctioned to members of the Russian mafia. The video is full of symbols and images representing different aspects. For instance at the beginning her senses are being covered which may represent her suffocating, being deprived of her senses almost referring to a form of torture.
There is a frame within a frame shot in the film where Lady Gaga is looking through a mirror wearing sunglasses, the camera is focusing her reflection whilst her back is turned. This is reminiscent of "The Who's Tommy movie', where a deaf, dumb and blind boy only becomes responsive when staring at the mirror. [1]
In some of the shots of this music video Lady Gaga's appearance eyes are very large, this could represent her drugged up or her innocence towards the terrible things that she is ongoing. Also the fact that she is wearing white suggests her purity and also refers to her innocence.
This music video is really imaginative as there is a wide range of different and abstract costumes that are completely different and do not reflect normal, casual everyday lives. The target audience for her work would be a range of ages and people who are very open-minded, and enjoy strange, abstract and imaginative work.
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