I don't think that all these entertainers of stature willfully go into things thinking their doing the work of Satan. Many are obviously deceived and become enslaved by it. Interestingly, the man who directed the Lady Gaga video being discussed also directed a very symbol-ridden video for the recording artist, Britney Spears--for the song aptly titled "I'm a SLAVE for you." Satan robs people of their God-given talents and enslaves them into drawing undiscerning masses of people to himself. I think it's worth noting how he does it and the level of artistry behind it.
Gaga's actual music video is approaching 100,000,000 (yes 100 million) views and counting.
"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." ~ Ephesians 6:12
“her influence in our culture and international iconic status”
LOL
I’ve read that she is actually a he. Anyone know if this is true?
Wait for a Gaga Studies elective to be added to a sociology department at a university near you.
A la Madonna’s burning crosses video of twenty years back, it’s all a labored attempt to be transgressive, etc. I would be interested in knowing more about her costume/set/choreography design staff and how they work.
When she sticks a muslim crescent up her hoo-hoo, get back to me.
influence??
I never heard of him/her/it before this year. As far as I know.
I wonder what the native language of the narrator is? Obviously not English.
*sigh* - The sad thing is that there are people who would make such blanket statements as “sex is wrong”... how did they get here then? If sex is wrong, why did God “make them male and female”? Sure there’s a time and a place for things, and often we fail to discern the correct time/places.
So let my refuting begin:
- While it is true that Satan can appear to be a being of light and as such _might_ be depicted by the sun it is also true, and much more common, for the sun to denote/symbolize a beginning or end as in sunrise & sunset.
- Haus is merely German for ‘house.’
- The refrence to Lady Gaga being a god-like figure because she is sitting on a throne is a bit of a stretch when it is more likely that the director (who said he was going for a sort of futuristic Russian bath-house) was thinking of a monarch.
- To say that the bath is symbolic of washing her sins away is to ignore that people ACTUALLY take baths for the physical-body’s sake.
- To imply that large eyes denote ONLY innocence is to ignore that large eyes ALSO are a symptom of arousal, and thusly the historic usage [by women] of belladonna to dilate the pupils.
- The feeling of betrayal by God is *gasp* common! (In Christians and non-Christians alike, at least at SOME point in their life.) Mother Theressa, it is said, had a long period of ‘drought.’
- ‘Vale’ is supposed to be ‘veil’
- The term ‘morning star’ is ALSO used throughout the New Testament in reference to Jesus the Christ [or perhaps Holy Spirit]; thus the “I will give him the Morning Star” (See: Revelation 2 :26-28 & 2 Peter 1:19 )
- Having a cat means you’re worshiping Horus, and therefore Satan? Wow, I must be quadruply damned with my cat and her three kittens.
- Joules are a unit of measure [energy]; JEWELS on the other hand are precious and semi-precious stones.
- Satan is known as the “Rain Man”? Where do you get that? In the sermon on the mount Jesus says that God sends the rain to the just and the unjust; are you implying that Satan and God are one? That IS, I’m fairly sure, a heresy.
- The cross is attached to a sash consisting of a thin-rope/thick-thread and just has the unfortunate (ass far as I can see) chance to dangle at the crotch... probably because any lower and it would be out of the shot altogether and any higher it would look off-center and therefore unbalanced.
- ‘Reseave’? I’m fairly sure you meant receive.
- “Why does Lady GaGa wear this costume?” you ask... I have no idea, why do any pop-stars wear ridiculous costumes in their videos?
- Red is a color associated with sin? Not really, passion perhaps; blood, definitely.
- Or, perhaps the dance becoming more lively is because the song is finishing or coming to a crescendo, perhaps?
- Actually there is a body left at the end; it’s the burned skeleton... or did you not see that?
All in all, I’m more inclined to say it’s just a[nother] “stupid pop music video” with no real hidden/deeper meanings.
This is like the twits who put Beatles music under a microscope to “prove” Paul is dead. Some people need to get a life and stop making Christians look retarded.
I’m not particularly a fan of underwear videos since they are usually just a tactic to divert attention from the mediocrity of the performance. “Bad Romance” though is actually a pretty good video, something exceptionally rare today. It seems to owe more of its imagery to the Fifth Element and Nosferatu movies then to Baal and pagan sacrifice of the Middle Ages.
I also get a smile from the choreographer’s clever moves that make you forget that people can’t really do elaborate dance moves in those platform shoes. That stage had to sound like a barn with the clomping those shoes would produce.
Gaga herself I’m neither hot nor cold on. It’s too soon and I’m not familiar with her overall body of work. She seems to have some legitimate talent that needn’t rely on studio tricks. If so that ultimately will probably limit her career.
Also those snide spiteful remarks calling her a man seem pretty lame. Churlishness isn’t really a conservative value, no matter how hard some here work at it.