Still, the media wants this woman to have some status and own a title soooo badly. It’s still a far cry from anything that defines her as a Queen of anything. I still am waiting for more originality, but this is the only thing that gives her monsters a claim to making Gaga out to be an actual artist with talent. Anyway, after a slew of crappy, elementary and simple sounding pop singles(excluding Bad Romance) we finally get something solid. I believe she’s just being wierd just to be wierd. Heck, I’m not even sure it’s clear to Gaga herself. The concept is not clear, but I don’t think that matters to Gaga’s audience or to her fans. The look of this video has a very grand appeal to it and her presence is amazing. It’s Vogue,Express Yourself, even Like a Prayer themes thrown together and you easily notice the different elements of all those influences(the black and white, her look, the crosses, etc). I’m sure everyone that’s being completely objective can admit that it does visually.
Okay, here’s my TAKE ON THIS… The video was very similar and reminiscent (once again) of Madonna’s previous work.
The continuous emphasis on showing that one man as ‘Alejandro’ with a scene of a riot playing behind him represents how, despite his throbbing sexuality – he must fulfill his role as a ‘man’ by staying silent as he listens to riots break out surrounding the tension around his sexuality. The ‘funeral’ represents the LGBT community ‘killing’ those mainstream biased gender roles. Gaga is a symbol of how mainstream Christianity and Catholicism religions see the LGBT community. When gay men get mixed up into that, they portray ‘nazis’ in this video or simply ‘strong military men’ to once again show the roles that they’re expected to play by culture’s eyes. Meaning that we’re forced to act a certain way in fear of being shunned, abandoned, alienated or ridiculed. The ‘nazi costumes’ are symbols that we are so bound to fulfill gender roles assigned by society to the point where we are psychologically placed into internment camps. “Alejandro” is a metaphor for society’s gender role of the aggressive man that society yearns for. It’s restless, monsterous and almost unbearable because society tells them that they shouldn’t express their feelings towards other men. These few scenes are increasingly sexual in order to show the massive, heated underlying sexual conflict that gay men experience within themselves. Also stands for the millions of gays, transgendered and cross dressers that can only show their *true* selves at night when greater society isn’t watching. But as soon as they’re alone, even if they still ‘look’ manly and assertive, their feminine aspect of their sexuality comes to the forefront and they express their fantasies in the dead of night. During the day, society pressures them to act a certain way, to truly be the biased aggressive man. Those beds are metaphors for what gay men experience when they’re trying to fight their growing erections from their fantasies when trying to sleep at night. As the video carries on, you see her getting “felt up” by a man in a scene with various beds. That’s very blatant and evident in what she wears, the crosses in the background, her swallowing rosemary beads, and so on. Gaga is a modern symbol of the virgin Mary – a cold, religiously bound woman who cares about serving and satisfying Christ.
Gaga is simply a symbol for how conflicting religion becomes when a gay man has to emotionally deal with accepting that he’s ‘gay’ when his religion tells him that it’s a sin. Gaga is not meant to be the focus of this video. Those outfits are symbols for the intense religious Christian-Catholic backlash that the LGBT community experiences from religious zealots with how they say that ‘gays are going to hell’, ‘you need jesus,’ ‘being gay is a sin,’ etc. However, as the video progresses, you see Gaga in and out of scenes, wearing these religious outfits. Them marching around in synchronized form represents the role that they’re expected to play in society – Always marching in a tight pattern, never meant to branch off from that gender role. The soldiers in this video are meant to represent the gay, transgendered and bisexual men in this society that are *expected* to be aggressive and fully ‘masculine’ men. I’m going to basically explain this video to everyone that’s either disgusted by this, indifferent or simply does not ‘understand it.’
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