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  • Lady Gaga’s Alejandro Fails to Impress

    June 9th, 2010

    On Women’s Wednesday I talk about women in media.

    Did you just watch the video above? How far did you get? I forced myself to watch all of it – mostly out of curiousity – but I barely got 15 seconds through. Especially when I saw how long it was.  Dear Ms. Gaga, does every video need to attempt to be an epic? My patience is wearing incredibly thin when it comes to your pretentious art and film references – and I’m a filmmaker!

    Harsh? Well, I’m not alone. Let’s start with Jezabel: “Gaga’s New Video Makes Riot Gear and Latex Boring” who says:

    It’s very beautiful! And very dull. Vivid religious iconography, leather coats, vague military/riot references and men in fishnets and heels can’t make up for a weak (non existent?) narrative and an incredibly repetitive song.

    In “So Predictably Disrespectful” The Spectator states:

    Being vulgar to shock the middle class is by now simply the last refuge of an empty mind; it’s not shocking at all. We expect disrespect from people like Lady Gaga. After all, we’d only be shocked if she sang something beautiful, inspirational, or possibly with more than ten words in the song.

    Even Faith & Reason from USA Today agrees:

    I can certainly understand how some people will be offended and I wouldn’t argue with them. And 25 years ago when videos were first doing things like this, it was shocking. But I think it’s just not a particularly compelling — or coherent — or shocking video.

    Whether or not you agree, you can have your vote over at The Guardian, who is simply asking of the video – Masterpiece or Overrated? And while you are considering the options, they jog your memory:

    -Masterpiece – espiecally the machine gun bra and Leather Nun homage

    OR

    -Overrated – Madonna’s done it all before, and the song sounds like Ace of Base

    What do you think?

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