Guest Pud Whacker Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 the Madonna wannabe ... Hence, she has now become the new poster girl for American decadence and Catholic bashing, sans the looks and talent of her role model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skin Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Oh, Billy boy. The man who links homosexuality to pedophilia. Bless him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolidayGuy Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-20007113-10391698.html June 8, 2010 3:42 PM Lady Gaga "Alejandro" Music Video Has Singer's Guns Blazing Post NEW YORK (CBS) One-woman army Lady Gaga has just unleashed a video clip for her latest single "Alejandro." The video officially made its world premiere today on Gaga's YouTube channel. The nearly 9-minute film, directed by fashion photographer Steven Klein, plays out like a dark piece of macabre theatre and is a more introspective departure from her previous clip "Telephone" featuring R&B siren Beyonce. PICTURES: Lady Gaga's Eye-Catching Style "Alejandro" stars Gaga, 24, alone as the sole female figure sans the obnoxious product placements that crowded her last two videos, "Telephone" and "Bad Romance." No Wonder Bread endorsements, here, thankfully. Throughout the music video, she's encircled by an army of choreographed, chiseled dancers writhing around her body in a protective way. With her singing with the sultry refrain: "You know that I love you boy / Hot like Mexico, rejoice." Once again dressing to provoke, Lady Gaga wears a red leather nun's habit in part of the video. Visually, it's a monochromatic, sex 'n' religion-fueled escapade into Gaga's inner psyche -- replete with wooden crucifixes, man-on-man eroticism and swallowed rosary beads. The Madonna-isms run high in this clip, from her short-cropped, platinum blond wig and black blazer suit, set against the stark, post-industrialist mood of the clip (a la "Express Yourself"), to her exaggerated machine gun bra (similar to the infamous coned bra in "Vogue"). All melds to make the video play out like a visual love letter to Madonna's early '90s "Blond Ambition" era. With the "Fame Monster" continually throwing creative punches like this, the only question viewers can ask themselves now is where can Gaga possibly go next? Pretty sure she'll enjoy the challenge. Gaga will be touring the United States this summer in her "Monster Ball" tour, kicking off July 1 in Boston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acpl08 Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Wow...even Roger Friedman and the catholic league prefer Vadge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pud Whacker Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Wow...even Roger Friedman and the catholic league prefer Vadge! THE WORLD PREFERS MADONNA. this goober is a wannabe stand in, as ive always said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolidayGuy Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 http://www.billboard.com/column/viralvideos/lady-gaga-alejandro-video-premieres-channels-1004096109.story?tag=hpflash1#/column/viralvideos/lady-gaga-alejandro-video-premieres-channels-1004096109.story?tag=hpflash1 Lady Gaga 'Alejandro' Video Premieres, Channels Vintage Madonna by Monica Herrera, N.Y. | June 08, 2010 12:30 EDT Lady Gaga's "Alejandro" video premiered today (June 8) on her website, and just like its teasers indicated, the clip channels classic videos by Madonna ("Vogue") and Janet Jackson ("Rhythm Nation"). It also courts religious controversy in much the same way that Madonna's "Like a "Prayer" video once did, intermingling Catholic imagery like rosary beads and nun's robes with sexual cues like S&M and androgyny. Helmed by fashion photographer Steven Klein, Gaga's "Alejandro" video starts out with men sporting bowl haircuts (much like those worn by monks) and marching "Rhythm Nation"-style through an industrial space. Gaga is draped in a black veil and carrying a human heart -- presumably belonging to her dead lover -- while walking through a funeral procession. The gothic eye candy transitions into a scene where Gaga dons latex versions of the robes worn by nuns and monks and clutches rosary beads, which she later uses to satisfy her oral fixation. For the dance sequences, Gaga wears a nude two-piece and performs sexually-charged choreography with her male dancers, both on the floor and in the bed. Also, there's a really catchy synth-pop song about breaking up with a Latin lover playing in the background, but we can't figure out for the life of us why. What do you think of Lady Gaga's "Alejandro" video? Do you think she went too far, or is she pushing boundaries the way a pop star should? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pud Whacker Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 putrid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nessie Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 I can't really think of any Britney video that is a Madonna rip off. there is a Britney video copying a scene from Madonna's Drowned World video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolidayGuy Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 ^This track is kinda inferior to some of her other singles, though, and, it does have that Ace-of-Base sound to it. :0 So, not sure if it really builds on past releases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karbatal Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 It's pretty clear that Gaga has been inspired in Madonna, but those opinions about the Evita funeral and Oh Father and Human Nature are a but laughable. To me, she's been inspired by BAT a lot, it seems a rehearsal of that tour! And she has inspired a lot in this: One of the best Madonna's performances ever, the MTV Express Yourself. She copies the movements and a bit of the clothes. And of course, half the video is Xtatic Process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GimmeSomeMo Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 this goober is a wannabe stand in, as ive always said. I wish we didnt need a stand in though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikki Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 shes using sex and religion in her videos. what other female artists have done this? heck there's even burning crosses and nuns. it's not really the vogue ripoff that bothers me, because that one's just TOO obvious and it would be very naive of her to think that no one would notice thatt. its the whole religion vs sex thing that bothers me. people call it "shocking and provocative" not its not. it was 20 years ago but not anymore. its ALL been done before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XXL Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Maybe this is her ultimate message about fame; people will buy into just about anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queen Bitch Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Christina and Gaga paying homage to Madonna is no different than Material Girl really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Being blasphemous to the catholic church now days is about as shocking as taking a dump. If you really wanna cause a controversey try Mormonism, Islam or Scientology. Most Christians now just don't care cos it's all been done before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertogerard Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Oh my- the leader of the Catholic League PRAISING La Ciccone. Lady Gaga video 'Alejandro' outrages Catholics, Katy Perry 41 comments by Ed Masley - Jun. 9, 2010 01:41 PM The Arizona Republic You know you've done your controversial best when Katy Perry and the Catholic League are out to get you. Lady Gaga's stylish "Alejandro" video - or "Like A Prayer 2010" as we prefer to call it - premiered yesterday, inspiring a star whose breakthrough hit was called "I Kissed a Girl" to Tweet that "using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke." And if anyone knows cheap, it's Katy Perry. Then, today, the Catholic League weighed in with a statement signed by president Bill Donohue: "Lady Gaga is playing Madonna copy cat, squirming around half-naked with half-naked guys, abusing Catholic symbols - they're always Catholic symbols - while bleating out "Alejandro" enough times to induce vomit. Dressed occasionally as a nun in a glossy-red habit, the Madonna wannabe flashes the cross, swallows a rosary and manages to get raped by her S&M boyfriends. Hence, she has now become the new poster girl for American decadence and Catholic bashing, sans the looks and talent of her role model. Like Madonna, Lady Gaga was raised Catholic and then morphed into something unrecognizable." And yet, what Lady Gaga's done here is completely recognizable - to the extent that nearly every sentence of the Catholic League's response includes the word Madonna. Like Madonna in her "Like a Prayer" days, Lady G is clearly courting controversy here. But it's artfully blasphemous, stylishly decadent and intriguingly uncomfortable - in other words, provocative, but not the same way Katy Perry's cleavage is provocative, which may be Perry's biggest problem with the clip. I'm not sure where the Catholic League saw rape. If anything, Gaga's the one in control for most of these group sex scenes. But it's clearly hyper-sexual, with Gaga as a Latex-wearing nun who likes it rough in a clip that makes the most of what the star told Larry King was a "homoerotic military theme" (which is clear from the opening scene of a topless male dancer in fishnets, fast asleep with his machine gun by his side). And unlike Perry's video for "California Gurls," where frosting shoots out of her bra, this one is meant to make you think. Steven Klein, the famed fashion photographer who directed the clip, told MTV, "The religious symbolism is not meant to denote anything negative, but represents the character's battle between the dark forces of this world and the spiritual salvation of the Soul. Thus at the end of the film, she chooses to be a nun, and the reason her mouth and eyes disappear is because she is withdrawing her senses from the world of evil and going inward towards prayer and contemplation." And swallowing rosary beads? As Klein told MTV, that scene was meant to represent "the desire to take in the holy." Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/music/articles/2010/06/09/20100609lady-gaga-video-alejandro-outrages-catholics-katy-perry.html#ixzz0qPLpICDT Wow. The President of The Catholic League implying Madonna is talented & beautiful? Never thought I'd see the day. Fucking Awesome!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolidayGuy Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/video/comparing-lady-gagas-alejandro-music-video-madonna-10870288 As for homages- for me, I like that Madonna took her influences for videos and such from sources outside the music industry (well, there are a few instances like Boy George's claims, "Ray of Light," etc.- but the originals weren't exactly hugely known, like Madonna's work- same for "Hollywood" video, but not being a big fan of that clip, here nor there for me). With the Madge "wanna-bes," they're culling from within the music industry. If you're going to pay homage a female musical act, who better than Madonna? Something like "Material Girl," it was a true, bonafide homage, down to the exact dress and set (though the choreography is different, I believe). Same with her photo shoot tributes to Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, etc.- and the Dietrich staging with Girlie Show. Why it's hysterical looking at that troubled Aisha's web site, and including stuff like that in her list of Madonna "plagiarisms." Fact that that girl would want to claim that she "inspired" a less-than-stellar track like "American Life" shows how wacko she is. But that's a whole 'nother story. I would never say Stephanie ripped Madonna off- the influence clearly is there, and nothing wrong with that, really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADUSTIO Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 putrid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camacho Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 SEEN THIS ACT BEFORE Word of advice to Lady Gaga: Madonna did it first and she did it better Joanna Molloy Saturday, June 12th 2010, 4:00 AM Lady Gaga does what any woman would do who wants to avoid attention at a baseball game: Strip down to nothing but your studded bra and panties. Poor Lady Gaga. She gets all dolled up - okay, in little more than her underwear - and treks out to Citi Field to catch a Mets game. She doesn't arrive until the fifth inning and she's shocked, shocked to find photographers there. Then she did what any woman who wants to stay incognito at a ball game would do - strip down to her bra and panties. They were studded, just what you want covering your posterior on a steel stadium seat, no? Then, for good measure, she stood up to flip the bird at the offending lensmen in front of numerous Little Leaguers actually trying to enjoy baseball on a Thursday afternoon in June. The lensmen weren't the paparazzi she sings about, but professional sports photographers who were probably paying more attention to the game than to Herself. All these dramatics wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that she just released a new single, would it? It's hard to picture actual ladies like Audrey Hepburn or Jackie O flipping the bird - the double bird no less. It's even hard to picture Madonna, to whom Gaga is most compared, engaging in such declasse behavior in a family venue. But the undeniably talented musician had already chosen marketing over manners a day earlier, when she showed up as a beekeeper at her little sister Natali's high school graduation. Natali's already living in Lady Gargantua's shadow, and it should have been her day to shine. Wouldn't it have been classy for Miss Thing to hang back in sunglasses and pearls and let Li'l Sis have the spotlight? Nah, this is all about marketing and business, which Lady Gaga is as good at as she is at dance music. She has three out of the top 25 songs downloaded on iTunes of all time and, as of last month, she'd sold 40 million singles and 15 million albums. Like her style icon Madonna, she's brilliant at realizing the street is her dance floor, the sidewalk her stage - even her skivvies are costumes. Wherever Lady Gaga is, theater is. Image, and getting that image swirling around the globe, is everything in the digital age. In her new single, "Alejandro," all the "shocking" visuals on the checklist are there: Ripped, shirtless guys who look like Nazi stormtroopers dance around. Check. Gaga simulates sex with one of them in her underwear. Check. Gaga puts on a red latex nun's habit and does outrageous things to get controversy going in the Catholic press. Check. Hmmm . . . Sounds familiar. Wasn't there someone else who messed around with Catholic iconography in a music video? Oh yeah, Madonna, in "Like A Prayer!" Except then, it wasn't just for marketing purposes. Madonna's actually had meaning, a story. When she hooked up with the saint, it was sexier, yet somehow Okay for Little Leaguers to see. You know. Like a lady. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 SEEN THIS ACT BEFORE Word of advice to Lady Gaga: Madonna did it first and she did it better Joanna Molloy Saturday, June 12th 2010, 4:00 AM Lady Gaga does what any woman would do who wants to avoid attention at a baseball game: Strip down to nothing but your studded bra and panties. Poor Lady Gaga. She gets all dolled up - okay, in little more than her underwear - and treks out to Citi Field to catch a Mets game. She doesn't arrive until the fifth inning and she's shocked, shocked to find photographers there. Then she did what any woman who wants to stay incognito at a ball game would do - strip down to her bra and panties. They were studded, just what you want covering your posterior on a steel stadium seat, no? Then, for good measure, she stood up to flip the bird at the offending lensmen in front of numerous Little Leaguers actually trying to enjoy baseball on a Thursday afternoon in June. The lensmen weren't the paparazzi she sings about, but professional sports photographers who were probably paying more attention to the game than to Herself. All these dramatics wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that she just released a new single, would it? It's hard to picture actual ladies like Audrey Hepburn or Jackie O flipping the bird - the double bird no less. It's even hard to picture Madonna, to whom Gaga is most compared, engaging in such declasse behavior in a family venue. But the undeniably talented musician had already chosen marketing over manners a day earlier, when she showed up as a beekeeper at her little sister Natali's high school graduation. Natali's already living in Lady Gargantua's shadow, and it should have been her day to shine. Wouldn't it have been classy for Miss Thing to hang back in sunglasses and pearls and let Li'l Sis have the spotlight? Nah, this is all about marketing and business, which Lady Gaga is as good at as she is at dance music. She has three out of the top 25 songs downloaded on iTunes of all time and, as of last month, she'd sold 40 million singles and 15 million albums. Like her style icon Madonna, she's brilliant at realizing the street is her dance floor, the sidewalk her stage - even her skivvies are costumes. Wherever Lady Gaga is, theater is. Image, and getting that image swirling around the globe, is everything in the digital age. In her new single, "Alejandro," all the "shocking" visuals on the checklist are there: Ripped, shirtless guys who look like Nazi stormtroopers dance around. Check. Gaga simulates sex with one of them in her underwear. Check. Gaga puts on a red latex nun's habit and does outrageous things to get controversy going in the Catholic press. Check. Hmmm . . . Sounds familiar. Wasn't there someone else who messed around with Catholic iconography in a music video? Oh yeah, Madonna, in "Like A Prayer!" Except then, it wasn't just for marketing purposes. Madonna's actually had meaning, a story. When she hooked up with the saint, it was sexier, yet somehow Okay for Little Leaguers to see. You know. Like a lady. Nice article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karbatal Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 She's so Nikki Finn in that photo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narendra Sen Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 SEEN THIS ACT BEFORE Word of advice to Lady Gaga: Madonna did it first and she did it better Awesome!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowball83 Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 I think all this ‘homage’ stuff lately is getting ridiculous, the only word for it is laziness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GimmeSomeMo Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 Would you really call GaGa lazy though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moe Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 Would you really call GaGa lazy though? Yes.lazy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elysium Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 Yes.lazy I'd add fucking UGLY to that too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pud Whacker Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 VILE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ciccone's Cheeks Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 ^ that was actually a really good interview between GaGa and John Norris. GaGa speaks very well and it just seems like John Norris was trying to egg Gaga on in a way about never naming M as an influence (finally someone confronted her with that)!! It was like he was trying to get her to diss madonna- due to the fact she never says shes an influence, but Gaga held her own, said she loved her and even came back to the question after they starting drifting into something else. I think most here unfortunately and in the media are almost hoping and waiting for Gaga to say something UN-complimentary towards M and she is very self conscious of just that and wont do it (so far lol). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bluejean Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 Madonna's actually had meaning, a story. When she hooked up with the saint, it was sexier, yet somehow Okay for Little Leaguers to see. You know. Like a lady. Great way to sum things up. Although I wouldn't say Lady Gaga is meaningless as an artist. But that video didn't live up to the hype this time. And she is NOT sexy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bluejean Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 THE WORLD PREFERS MADONNA. this goober is a wannabe stand in, as ive always said. Lady Gaga is the new CHRISTINA and BRITNEY mixed into one. If she wants to be as big as Madonna she'll need classics like Vogue, Like A Prayer and Express Yourself to match the imagery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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