The video for Lady Gaga's "born this way" happened and boy is it pregnant with symbolism (you man insert here a rim-shot sound. It has a heavy charge of symbolic images of all kinds, but mainly it is all about femininity, masculinity, death and libido. Self destruction, self exploration and self acceptance (specially from the point of view of an outcast). Despite the simpleness of the lyrics, the video delivers a well structured look at what the journey to mature self acceptance is all about, how one wonders where one came from, where is one going, how there is good and evil, how there is masculine and feminine, what can be changed and how, if there is more people going through the same journey, if there is a group of them, finally to look at one self as a whole, without filters. That's there where one finds beauty. And all of this is accomplished with images and dance, and in the process Gaga gives birth to a machine gun, wears amazing skull makeup and RIDES A MOTHERFUCKING UNICORN. And needles to say, she also rocks my socks.
She caters to so many different people; her music, her costumes, her public appearances, her extravagance, each piece of her image is comprised of different elements, this video is the perfect example of that. It is also the perfect example of why some people strongly dislike her. Or are plain afraid of her. Or want to terminate her career (I of course do not include conspiracy theorists in this group, as they are more efficient at showing their own craziness rather than the Lady's). Whether or not you understand the symbolism, the images seem the product of drug fueled hallucinations, she does not attain to the ideal of beauty, she is exaggerated, the whole thing has a strong 80s flavor and more than once there are references to other singers' past work. She seems like the kind of woman that would greet you on the street and talk to you incessantly for an hour and a half jumping from a topic to the next without real connections. She seems insane. But actually
...that is insanity. And hilarious. But I digress. The rapid evolution of Gaga from whatever pop star of the month to monstrously famous crazy extravagant attention magnet have people wandering what happened. You can't say you didn't see it coming (if you payed attention) her early work as Gaga was more conventional, yes, but you can't find any kind of pissy princess there, she has always been somehow intimidating.
And she rides a motherfucking unicorn.
