2/28/2023 0 Comments Lady gaga applause video![]() ![]() “I’m happy it’s in the world,” Gaga said on “GMA” about the song, which she’ll perform to open the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. When Gaga sings the “Suddenly the Koons is me” line, the singer is transformed into a black swan/human hybrid. Let's hope this video is just her looking backwards one more time and cracking a joke-before she dives ahead to somewhere weirder than Weird Al ever imagined.Mustang Talks Galloping Away From 'Masked Singer,' Belting a Rock Classic But "Applause," catchy as it is, offers nothing new. For however much she gets accused of ripping off Madonna or Bruce Springsteen or whoever, she's long been a legitimate pop change agent: making European dance beats ubiquitous on the American charts with her debut, The Fame amping up the drama, theatricality, and lyrical content with The Fame Monster bringing in rock bombast and a gutsy medley of influences with Born This Way. Whether or not the white-and-nerdy vibes are intentional or not, though, they might be a byproduct of the awkward place Gaga's career is at right now. "It's actually very empowering, I think." At the time, it sounded like publicity-speak, but watching "Applause," that quote suddenly seems a lot more believable. "I actually really appreciate the philosophy behind the song," she told Rolling Stone 's Brian Hiatt. ![]() Gaga's aware of "Perform This Way": After her management initially denied Yankovic rights to her song, she praised his rendition. But it's possible the parody influenced her. ![]() So is Gaga's purposefully mimicking Weird Al's mimicking of her? Probably not-her work has long addressed the nature of celebrity, and the "Applause" video references tons of other cultural touchstones. Whether or not the white-and-nerdy vibes are intentional or not, they might be a byproduct of the awkward place Gaga's career is at right now. "Perform" presented Gaga's desperation for attention as a crass money-making ploy: "My little monsters pay lots 'cuz I perform this way." "Applause" is about desperation for attention being a kind of bodily/chemical/spiritual dependence: "If only fame had an IV, baby." Weird Al was making fun of Gaga Gaga is explaining Gaga. The lyrics echo as well- dismissing critics in the first verse, glorifying Gaga's hunger for fame. Gaga's new video also reminds me of "Perform This Way" in the way it's staged against a black background, and in some of the outfit choices. even if it means shapeshifting into a Na'vi from Avatar or covering herself in bees. The message was that, yes, she's willing to do anything to please the public. ![]() Back in 2011, his clip for the send-up "Perform This Way," featured Al-as-Gaga in a parade of insane, low-couture costumes-more Halloween outlet store than Alexander McQueen. The unsettling thing, though, is that Weird Al beat her to this punch line. even if that means shapeshifting into a swan." I think MTV's James Montgomery got it right when he wrote that the clip is "showing the viewer how she's willing to do anything to please the public. It's unlikely Lady Gaga repeated herself by accident. Some of the outfits in it look like knock-offs of things that Gaga's worn in the past for details check out Kate Ward's side-by-side comparison with the "Born This Way" video. The "Applause" video seems to come out of this self-consciousness kick. It appears that in that time, the "haters" have gotten under her skin: "Applause" calls out critics in its lyrics, a promo video she puts out proclaims in its title "Lady Gaga is over," and now she's in a highly personal and highly public showdown with Perez Hilton. Gaga's returning from some time away after promoting Born This Way, her 2011 album of disputed commercial and artistic success (on one hand, it sold more than a million copies in its first week and was, according to me, really great on the other, those sales were in large part because of a pricing gimmick and few of the album's singles performed particularly well). But it's tough to be impressed when this self-styled cutting-edge artist is recycling a joke from the great deflator of self-styled cutting-edge artists-Weird Al Yankovic. Which is probably the point: to make a video both celebrating and poking fun at her career thus far. Why a Medieval Woman Had Lapis Lazuli Hidden in Her Teeth Sarah Zhang ![]()
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