Showing posts with label Lady Gaga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lady Gaga. Show all posts

March 12, 2010

Lady Gaga and Beyoncé in Telephone

With much anticipation and baited breath have I been waiting for the release of this music video. The song itself is so hot, and now I can conclude that the video only adds to that factor.

The following, a list of my favorite aspects and moments of the music video:

1. Commenting on hermaphroditic rumors.

Prison Guard #1: I told you she didn't have a dick.
Prison Guard #2: Too bad.

This while Gaga, pantyless and in fishnets, climbs her jailbars and flashes the viewer her (blurred) crotch. What a way to keep the speculation going!

2. Smokin' hot eyewear.

Literally. I wonder how many takes and how many cigarettes went into this sequence. And the smoke couldn't have been fun to tolerate, dontcha think?

3. The fat black woman sighs upon taking a glance at Gaga on the recess grounds. Her sound and expression. Hillarious.


4. Diet Coke cans for curlers.

Alexander McQueen used pop cans in his FW 2009 show. In a way, I saw this shot above and thought, how befitting in light of everything. Of course, I'm sure the intent was more white trash (more on that below!) than high taste, but to me, the sentiment is there.

5. The "OK" sign.


6. Product placement.

As Lady Gaga is the creative director for Polaroid, how appropriate she'd be flashing pictures with an old-school camera and film.


7. Beyoncé.



OMG Beyoncé deserves a category of her own. I remember reading how Lady Gaga made it clear how she didn't want to bring her Gaga persona into Beyoncé's Videophone video, she wanted to do it up "Gee-yoncé" style. Well, it's like the reverse has happened here, and this time, Beyoncé has been done up so befittingly in the Gaga aesthetic. There's that bee-eyed headdress she dons initially. I LOVE how she gets to don the same flip-shades from Gaga's Paparazzi video. And I especially love how she freaks out at the phone and throws it on the floor in one of the sequences.



8. Americana white trash.


I love how the Gaga creative team has placed a very hot and attractive spin on trailer park living. The diner sequences are such a visually fantastic production. It's rotten, it's rocker, and it shows that consistency and the right sense of styling is all you need to work a look. Star-spangled banners mixed in with studded biker leather, midriffs, greasy looking eye makeup, and the denim. OH the denim. Distressed, shredded and gaping to the point that one could really turn heads, I really wish I could walk around with any pair like the ones on these dancers...especially the pair on Mr. Center-Stage Dude. The long tassel-y shoulder embellishments on his coat are pretty eccentric (but appropriate) too. LOVE it.

9. Jai Rodriguez.

Ooh-la-la! Yum. 'Nuff said.

November 11, 2009

Lady Gaga Bad Romance Music Video

Lady Gaga's new music video for her latest single, Bad Romance, is one visually overloaded masterpiece...and, I daresay, a tribute to Alexander McQueen? How nice that they seem to have struck a reciprocating deal where, one got to play a fresh hot single to closeout his Spring Summer 2010 show, and the other got the privilege of using the extravagant shoes and even a full-on outfit from that show in her music video...

...head to toe in McQueen!...


...oh to literally be the center of attention, while wearing these shoes...


...and here they are again in white...paired very nicely with that must-have train ;)

A couple other thoughts that lead me to stake my claim that McQueen is very much alive in the styling of this vid: beyond the obvious cues to his Spring Summer 2010 show, there's also the spinal vertebral enhancements she sports...

...from time to time, McQueen is all about highlighting skeletal anatomy...

...and then there's that fabulous naked bat Lady Gaga sports along with said vertebrae...

...substitute that out with a feathered bird, outstretched wings and all, and you've got McQueen's Widows of Culloden collection from Fall 2006...

Oh and lastly, on a completely different note...props for casting the hot men in this video...all inked up and looking bad ass...especially the sexy looking lead character with the face ornament. So avant-garde, so appropriate for a Gaga video, so...Jean Paul Gaultier (especially when u take into the other headresses/masks used on the other men?)? Anybody know who he is? He looks familiar...like male model familiar...I should keep on digging and find out for myself...


...ready whenever you are...

October 27, 2009

ON REPLAY: Bad Romance by Lady Gaga



Tonight on our Top 40 Radio Station, KDWB, Lady Gaga's newest single, Bad Romance, aired on their nightly segment called The New-ish at Nine-ish, or something to that effect. The premise of the feature is to pit two new songs against each other, one is the previous night's champion, and the other the contender. Listeners call in to vote...yada yada yada...

Let's see, the first time I heard this song was at the finale for Alexander McQueen's Spring 2010 show...I remember waking up and going directly to his website to watch the streaming recording...10.07.2009. Both the song and show were fabulous. Fabulous to the max -- walking down the runway in these shoes with this song? Fabulous. FEROCIOUS.

image via fashionologie


images via style.com

So, 20 days, that's the lag-time for a hot single to finally percolate into middle America? And Lady Gaga lost tonight too! To some single by Uncle Kracker! Which took 68% of the votes! Minnesota, YOU LOSE.
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