GaGa’s Best Long-Form Music Video?

[Lucas 30,255]

So hard to chose, they are all masterpieces 

I love the career predictions and dark magic vibes of Paparazzi, I ****ing love the looks and campiness of Telephone, and the first half of the Born This Way video is absolutely stunning...

I truly hope one day that Gaga will release another long form video and put as many efforts into it as she did back then.

I feel like 911 is her only true masterpiece video since 2013. Joanne era's videos were not my cup of tea, although John Wayne was different and fun coming from Gaga. SL bad and ROM very average, Disease feels rushed, and Abracadabra is great but not a masterpiece (and the video is an idea she had 17 years ago)

Edited March 16 by Lucas

[Hydrangea 7,120]

I wanted to say anything except GUY but it’s so messy it turns back around to being kinda iconic 

[garbage day 11,778]

7 hours ago, JohnnyVersace said:

“GaGa” 

"The Fame: Monster" teas

[bxr 1,656]

2 hours ago, zevthepaparazzo said:

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

This aligns; sort of a one-off aside, but for some reason, within that framework, I feel like Tier 2 and 3 are seasonal … more mood-dependent, watchability and resonance fluctuate more on those tiers (sometimes G.U.Y. feels more significant with cultural critique, and Telephone might feel more fundamentally entertaining, and then vice-versa, for instance) … whereas Paparazzi and MTN feel more inherently evergreen

[bxr 1,656]

4 hours ago, ****oDanceFight said:

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. 

Wow, a retrospective; how casual the canon blueprint cinesymphonic  Reckoning of the Evidence, with some Foucauldian flair, and wrap it up in Roland “Ribbons” Barthes … bonfireside chats of the post-vanities meets underground pop civilization … 

G.U.Y. though … the potential for seamless segues continues … in immediate retrospect, your GoE/ZB/Killah/(CSTH) Mayhem Film concept from before, even gives G.U.Y.’s narrative trajectory a there “there” … so, hypothetically, the C-Suites are cleared of the incumbent old guard, Gg literally launches fleet of yuppie-adjacent suits from *checks notes* Hearst Castle into a beachfront grove (or, there’s an abundance trees in an apparently verdant environment) or … Garden … of Eden … where the Mayhem Film Prelude picks up after Abracadabra and, a voila, the G.U.Y closing scene grove transits into the Mistress’ Garden of Eden club, and we’re back on the right track to fortunately sythesize all of the prior elements … honestly, even Warhol/Waters reference on the auraboros, is like … the levels of Garden of Eden / Mayhem aesthetic interplay potential with that alone … but, digress …

TL;DR: G.U.Y.’s present linger in the lucid suspense could gain legacy levity / new life in the next MV installment … it has the elements and essence … ARTPOP / Venus carry a certain gravity on graduated dissolve, then when G.U.Y. hits the bombast of that audio alone sort of elevates the visuals on vibes alone, by the time the magnitude settles, you’re at MANiCURE … but this is just stream of consciousness, so, grains of salt and stardust and such

Edited March 17 by bxr
Hearst Castle

[bxr 1,656]

2 hours ago, vanna shintuyu said:

"The Fame: Monster" teas

It’s for the best that this is the first time I’ve seen this stylization (even and especially in jest), because I could see myself unironically incorporating that iteration as default title / designation across all correspondence … 

[Chromanne 2,437]

Objectively Marry The Night MV is her best long form music video but right now I'm hørny so I chose Alejandro.

[jimmytimestep 2,860]

Honestly we stan an artist with arguably the best videography of all time (though Kylie Minogue and Michael Jackson put up good fights).

and Marry the Night is an absolute masterpiece. I’ll never forget how I felt watching it for the first time. The details, the energy, the cinematography! The last frame is like experiencing seeing god. 

my second favorite is actually probably BTW, I think it gets a lot of unnecessary flack. Alejandro is awesome too. I’d tie them for second. 

below that it’s literally splitting hairs, every video of hers is so cool. 

[fuqdissht 69]

Damn this is so hard, but I think MTN for me gooddddd that was hard

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3 hours ago, bxr said:

It’s for the best that this is the first time I’ve seen this stylization (even and especially in jest), because I could see myself unironically incorporating that iteration as default title / designation across all correspondence … 

When she first announced the album title, it was verbal, so people didn't know how it would be stylized. There were some people who very strongly believed it would be that way

[imogen2133 315]

MTN is probably her best and my fav overall and Alejandro is probably my least fav cause to this day I still have no idea what's going on lmao (even though it is still visually stunning). Also G.U.Y is very underrated (both song and video) it was her last real attempt at a long form video that had both dancing and a storyline and it has beautiful, artistic imagery that was still in line with the ARTPOP era aesthetic. Also it has campy classic-Ga elements like her as lego, her in Minecraft and her as a teddy bear.

[bxr 1,656]

9 hours ago, jimmytimestep said:

Honestly we stan an artist with arguably the best videography of all time (though Kylie Minogue and Michael Jackson put up good fights).

and Marry the Night is an absolute masterpiece. I’ll never forget how I felt watching it for the first time. The details, the energy, the cinematography! The last frame is like experiencing seeing god. 

my second favorite is actually probably BTW, I think it gets a lot of unnecessary flack. Alejandro is awesome too. I’d tie them for second. 

below that it’s literally splitting hairs, every video of hers is so cool. 

Slightly one-off aside, but for the sake of posterity … The Kylie Annthology, is understated prolific—the sheer endowment of that armory (the B-Sides, Remixes, and live tours alone are just … a whole repertoire)—Pop Precision Since 1987