GaGa’s Best Long-Form Music Video?

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4 hours ago, Blackout19 said:

btw

“will always be” — you, yesterday 

A tip of the mint gauze cap to you for the thread inspo 

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6 minutes ago, bxr said:

 

All of BTW, or just the visuals during the feature song? Just curious (a little controversy here, a little curiosity there…)

Mainly during the feature song. The intro is great and the second verse is fun.

 

also just remembered how they did the skinny effect on their bodies which I hated as well and thought looked ugly .  

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4 hours ago, DESTROY UR DISEASE said:

You may say "I lost everything". But I still had my Be-Dazzler. And I had a lot of patches, shiny ones from M&J Trimming. So I wreaked havoc on some old denim. And I did what any girl would do: I did it all over again.

… a narrative :

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4 hours ago, JustAnotherGayASMR said:

MTN forever & always. She managed to portray her life "in an artistic way" which gave us insight into the artist we all admire while touching on themes of psychology, trauma, strength, determination & more. You root for her but in the same stroke it makes success feel achievable for the viewer which I think is what Gaga ultimately strives for in everything she does. The empowerment of the viewer. It's perfect.

Totally.

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4 hours ago, JohnnyVersace said:

“GaGa” 

OG Long-Form MV savant stylization for the pre-monstrous nostalgic geeks 

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4 hours ago, JustAnotherGayASMR said:

MTN forever & always. She managed to portray her life "in an artistic way" which gave us insight into the artist we all admire while touching on themes of psychology, trauma, strength, determination & more. You root for her but in the same stroke it makes success feel achievable for the viewer which I think is what Gaga ultimately strives for in everything she does. The empowerment of the viewer. It's perfect.

“… and this ^ is the Manifesto of Nocturnal Matrimony.”  

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4 hours ago, TAIPEI said:

always my favorite.

 

4 hours ago, Ricardo said:

Paparazzi will always be my favorite 

 

The Royal We: “WE LOVE HER AGAIN”

The Real We: “Again?!" 

 

Additionally … Flash on a billion (it’s true, it’s true …)

[Bronco 21,289]

MTN > Paparazzi > Alejandro > Telephone.

 

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4 hours ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Genuinely was a core text for me as a teenager. Her best video.

 

2 hours ago, Duella Dvil said:

When I look back on my life clears

 

55 minutes ago, NewUsername said:

I think the whole intro of MTN adds the most to the whole MV and story.

 

That Prelude … remains Pop Gospel 

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“When I look back on my life 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. And truthfully the lie of it all is much more honest because I invented it. Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer. Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics. They can be lost forever. It’s sort of like my past is an unfinished painting and as the artist of that painting I must fill in all the ugly holes, and make it beautiful again. It’s not that I have been dishonest; it’s just that I loathe reality

For example those nurses, they're wearing next season Calvin Klein and so am I. And the shoes custom Giuseppe Zanotti. I tipped their gause caps to the side like Parisian berets because I think it's romantic, and I also think that mint will be very big in fashion next spring

Check out this nurse on the right; she's got a great a . Bam

The truth is back at the clinic they only wore those funny hats to keep the blood out of their hair. And that girl on the left she ordered gummy bears and a knife a couple of hours ago, they only gave her the gummy bears. I'd wish they'd only given me the gummy bears

You may say I lost everything. But I still had my Be-Dazzler. And I had a lot of patches, shiny ones from M&J Trimming. So I wreaked havoc on some old denim. And I did what any girl would do; I did it all over again …”

 

 

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Talent won today

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3 hours ago, Ultimecia said:

I'd vote for the Fame perfume commercial if I could. 

GAGAKLEIN: The Re-UP (Back out to black out — perfume formulas and fame paradigms)

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I was genuinely considering adding it to the list … 

 

Write-in votes are valid

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Paparazzi is my favourite, but Marry The Night is objectively better

Telephone and Alekandro are on par with each other, slightly below the above two

GUY and Born This Way are really fun to watch, but I haven't watched BTW in a long time

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I voted for Marry the Night, but each one brings something unique to her artistry that I can't help but feel a sense of internal betrayal for not picking any of the others.

Paparazzi + Telephone have established "rules" in terms of visual language, narrative, and camp aesthetic that pack such a visual punch. This is the closest that Gaga has come to an Andy Warhol/John Waters aesthetic and artistic ethos, and most of all, these are some of the most rewatchable videos of her videography that appeal to both pop heads, art heads, and general pop music fans.

Every frame of the Alejandro video should be placed in museums. It is romantic, gothic, brutalist, both religious and sacrilegious; it's a visual feast of an artist at a peak (but not the peak) of her artistic and cultural powers. It's alchemy in music video form and elevates her art to the stuff of legends.

Born This Way is stellar for the stark and hard sci-fi visuals and use of the Vertigo theme in the beginning which seamlessly segues into BTW's orchestral overture introduction. It also carries over some of the visual language from the Alejandro video (the Lang/German expressionist and H.R. Giger visual influences, abstract narrative and visuals). It's also one of the most stunning visual choreographies put to her videography.

Marry the Night though...narratively, visually, musically is truly hard to top. This is the earliest moment where we've seen the "real Gaga" underneath the makeup, couture, and wigs, and seamlessly ties into the whole "Born This Way" ethos: living halfway between fantasy and reality. Living in one's truth as one sees it to make something out of oneself. It narratively tests Gaga's mettle, and she makes it on the other side flawlessly. The free rain...the challengers exploding, the merging of fantasy and reality...it's a further distillation of who she is as both an artist and a person, as both canvas and artpiece.

G.U.Y. in retrospect is just...unfortunately, kind of "there." However, there's elements of G.U.Y. that work, and I will never get over seeing Gaga, Kyle Richards, LVP, and Giggy killing record executives. 

Edited March 16 by PornoDanceFight

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7 hours ago, Controversiaga said:

Alejandro and Paparazzi

 

btw is the worst imo- it really lacks in the visuals department imo 

Only when the song starts playing though, the first half with Gaga talking is visually stunning.