Better Video: Applause vs Abracadabra

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It's been a while since the last time I've said this so... the applause cover

Was the image that changed my life. Kinda like this level of life-changing:

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1 hour ago, NUTELLA said:

Applause automatically loses because of 🦢

Also, the Abracadabra video is beautiful

Not too much on Sedgwick Swan … Edie might be one of the closest personifications of Reverse Warholian within the ARTPOP referential repertoire … and literal personification of de facto American artistocracy 

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1 hour ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Me listening to Alice 

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9 minutes ago, bxr said:

Not too much on Sedgwick Swan … Edie might be one of the closest personifications of Reverse Warholian within the ARTPOP referential repertoire … and literal personification of de facto American artistocracy 

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I also live for the camp grandiosity, self-seriousness, and absurdity of the visual and the performance of that moment. Genuinely iconic.

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7 minutes ago, bxr said:

 

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17 minutes ago, bxr said:

Not too much on Sedgwick Swan … Edie might be one of the closest personifications of Reverse Warholian within the ARTPOP referential repertoire … and literal personification of de facto American artistocracy 

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And on the swan-motif note, it's beautiful if not brutal how we get this in 2011

After this in 2010

Just girls in the world not having fun while living for the applause...

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58 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

I just don’t really see how it’s boring. Her performance is great, the looks are great, the choreography is great. Genuinely one of her highest replay value MVs in recent memory (if not of all time) 

Great choreography yeah,  but with bad direction + a boring as **** location(it feels like we're watching rehearsals instead of the inner battle within Gaga's mind). I hate the stupid corny zooms(I usually love Gaga being a corn on the cob but here it feels like the cornyness stems from laziness rather than intent)  the pan transitions don't work at all, and it feels faux creepy/weird.

 

It's kinda like the Anti-Disease MV, where that MV contained the best and most daring parts of the Mayhem era, the Abra MV is basically a culmination of every little peeve I have with the Mayhem era dialed up to 100. I would never out irght say I hate the MV just because Abra is such an amazing song, but it certainly deserves a better MV than what we got. 

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Its a bit apples to oranges. Applause is more all over the place chaotic. Ironically its more Mayhem and abstract

 

Abracadabra is also abstract deep meaning in its own way but the cheoreography, angles, sequence etc feels more ordered and proper

 

So they are totally different. But if I must chose and compare anyway I like Abracadabra better

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Y'all so wild 😌

[dynamite 65,443]

Umm I guess Applause 

The video premiere at Times Square is one for the books ... 

[TAIPEI 3,134]

never liked applause 👏🏻

[Blackout19 14,601]

i love abracadabra, but i will go with applause