The male dancers are mere props in black and white contrast to Gaga, who look oh so stupid and act oh so stupid, grimacing and wincing about the set like a bunch of baboons swinging on a jungle-laden Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movie set.
Is Gaga a Flying Nun out on a midnight romp? Or is she a crusader for the Gay community?Īs such, the lyrics are a subtle endorsement for the Gay community, as she so informed Larry King. This is a ‘lighter shade of pale’ version of organized religion. Not too much damage is done to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This latex nungetup spoofs Catholicism in an innocent way. Don’t call my name, Roberto.” It’s not just rejection of his sex that’s implied here, it’s rejection of the stupidity of the Napoleon-esque actor in the video, and the cesspool of violent Fascism that circles his stodgy world. The lyrics express a rejection of the anti-hero in the song, Alejandro, or at times she refers to him as Fernando. Don’t need to portray her preeminence with careful reasoning, ART is intuitive, people!
To hammer the nail into the coffin, The Lady is a far superior dancer also (than Madonna) and the message of the lyrics and celluloid images reverberate deeper with a pulsating profundity, jiving society at every turn, or scolding religion and sexual archetypes, that tend to horribly haunt us or waterboard us, artistically speaking. Moreover, Gaga has a superior singing voice to Madonna, with a nasal tone that resonates with waxing wonder. To candidly evoke a bucket of precision-laden-frankness, Alejandro is a much better written song than Like A Prayer ever was, or could ever hope to be. The critics are getting it wrong when they say she’s ripping off Madge! Gaga is closer to the Weimar Republic than to Like A Prayer or Vogue. Gaga more resembles Marilyn Monroe than Madonna with her coolblonde hairdo and dark dress.
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I saw ne’er a reference to Like A Prayer or to Vogue for that matter, but did catch a whiff of Bob Fosse’s Cabaret, with swinging dance routines, darkly lighting, and a throbbing bunch of butch-boys swirling ’round surreal stage sets.įor a full nine minutes, Expressionist action, with a dash of Nazi bravado, androgynously toss us around like the limpest Raggedy Ann dolls (you’ve ever seen) lost at sea, and bumpily bouncing hither and thither by whirls of wayward wind. With regard to the Madonna-worship canticles, nothing could be further from the truth. Some harmless teasing of Catholicism is detected, and a scintilla of historical foreplay disguised as fanaticism, via Nazi S & M channeling, or otherwise, chimerical theatrical filtering pipes through my caustic carcass. Her outfits are getting even crazier!Īnna Pickard with the Guardian in the UK writes a witty piece, who’s most offended by Lady Gaga’s Alejandro? Ultimately, however, Anna doesn’t get it either, but sees it only as filler Jell-o pudding, and such a waste of her precious time!Īu contraire, I believe there to be a good amount of art and craft herein, subtlety of theme and evocative metaphors mercilessly pounce down on your face. Lady Gaga looks like Maleficent in Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, or perhaps Queen Elizabeth I weepily awaiting Sir Walter Riley’s return from the New World with his discovery of tobacco. Luchinda Fisher from ABC News sees it as a rip-off of Madonna’s Like A Prayer or her video Vogue. There’s a lack of understanding about Lady Gaga’s new video, Alejandro. Critics and media people alike aren’t getting it.
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