Lady Gaga Bad Romance Video Deconstruction
In the music video for Lady Gaga's Bad Romance it has lots
of imagery in there for innocents. At the very start of the video Lady Gaga is
sat in the middle of a lot of people on a throne. She is dressed in gold whereas
all of the men stood around her are in black and the woman are dressed in
white. This makes you automatically focus on her because she stands out. The
camera zooms in on her and this makes it certain that the video is focused on
her. She is wearing metal glasses with razor blades on them, this shows that
she is dangerous and she shouldn't be messed with. Then it cuts to a shot of
her with her finger on the play button on a Parrot iPod speaker. This is
product placement and it happens throughout this video. There is also product
placement for Russian Vodka called Lex Nemiroff. This could show that the guys
in the video are Russian and this could have links to the Russian Mob.
The next part of the video there is 4 pod like things on the
floor and one of them has "Monster" written on it and it has a cross
on it. The religious themes run through this whole video and this could mean
several things. These pods are in a white bricked room that looks like a prison
cell. The next shot it has red text that says "Bath Haus Of Gaga" now
this is just like a communal bath house in Russia but it Russia these can often
be associated with Whore Houses, this gives us an idea of what the video is
about.
The next shot is of the pods opening and people coming out
of them. This looks like the Aliens from Alien and this is linking Music videos
to films. This happens quite a lot in Lady Gaga's videos. Then when they are
out of the Pods they are wearing white latex clothes and the dance that they do
looks like the Thriller dance for Michael Jackson and this is showing that she
has taken influences from a very influential dance. Form this the video cuts to
her in a bath. Lady Gaga is wearing white clothes and she has very wide eyes,
this shows her innocents because she has an innocent look about her. With this
there is cuts to her stood in front of a mirror wearing black. This could be
that she is innocent but she always has a dark streak in her or it could be
foreshadowing the end of the video.
On this part of the video you can see her spine through her
clothes this shows that she is being mistreated at this Bath Haus. But she is
still wearing white showing that she is still pure. After this she is sat in a
bath and a man and a woman come up to and force her to drink some drugs or
vodka. Even though there is a woman in power she is still being controlled by
man. This substance they give her to drink makes her comply with what they want
her to do and this makes links to money and that if you give someone money then
they will do what you want. She is then stripped down out of her clothes in the
video and this is showing that she is stripped back to basics in the media
world and re built as what the men what.
She is made to dance in front of men and this shows that the
media is run by men and that female artists are made more to look sexy for the
male gaze rather than for the music. The women dancing in front of the men are
all still wearing white and this shows that they are still pure but that will
be take away very soon. In this part the men are all wearing black and this shows
that the men are the more powerful people and that they aren't pure and that
they are transforming women.
In this video there is lots of references to the imagery of
a cat this shows that the females are more used as "pets" in the
males eyes and that the women are just used as something nice to look at more
than a person.
Lady Gaga is now starting to have bits of black in the clothes
that she wears and this shows that she is starting to transform into what the
men what and this is is bad for her because she is conforming to what the media
people want and not being her own person. There is a few shots throughout this
part of the song that she is in a cage. This is her showing that she feels
trapped and that she can’t get out of what she has got herself into. The next
bit is her surrounded by men and she is in the middle with a load of diamonds
and jewellery around her this shows that if she conforms to what the men want
she will make lots of money.
The very last scene in this music video is very graphic
because she is laying on a bed that she has just set on fire and burnt and she
is lying next to one of the men out of the video that has been burnt and is now
just a skeleton. This shows that she has beaten the men and got to the top but
because of what she is wearing you can tell that she has no innocence left and
this is bad for her because even though she has beaten the men she has lost all
of what she wants to be.
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