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Lady Gaga officially released her new music video for her lackluster new single, “Applause” on Good Morning America today. Despite the song’s poor reception, the music video is quite entertaining to watch and feels like a work of art, or a movie in itself.
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Gaga’s video for “Applause” has an on-time 80’s Bowie/90’s Madonna feel to it. It is very sexual, but in a way that hardly seems trashy. Gaga seems to be trying to show sex as being a work of art in itself and a cause for celebration — or “Applause”.
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There are many parts of the video in which Gaga is also seen modeling on a runway as if she is participating in a fashion show. These are followed by some strange, yet traditionally Gaga clips featuring the singer sitting in an oversize top hat giving off an Alice and Wonderland Mad Hatter feel and another clip where the singer is seen wearing a tail followed by dressing as an Ostrich (which will probably give me nightmares….so creepy…)
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As I think back to the song itself and try to decipher the overall theme of the song/accompanying music video I can’t help but wonder if this is Lady Gaga’s way of saying that all that she does is for the “Applause”. I wonder if this is her undeclared statement that she’s not actually that “weird” as many believe her to be but she chooses to dress so eccentrically and act so odd simply for the attention or “Applause”.
For what it’s worth the music video is pretty great and worthy of attention, but will it help to save for the boring, forgettable single? Only time can tell. Check out the video below and let me know your thoughts!
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