12/29/2023 0 Comments Paparazzi lady gaga costumeIn this scene she tries to walk with the use of crutches and she’s wearing the infamous robot costume and helmet by Thierry Mugler. She takes away her clothes and something gorgeous appears beneath. This is a nightmare from the hair rock era! Her outfit is hilarious: she’s wearing a leopard jumpsuit, a leather jacket with padded shoulders, studs and chains, round-framed sunglasses, Balmain studded sandals and a Betony Vernon for Swarovski red rhinestone collar with a white cross on it. In this scene, she enters her tacky mansion (full of gold details, marble floors, big bunches of flowers, velvet chairs) with tuxedo-clad boys (her handymen?). Her death was obviously apparent, so here she is again, sitting on a wheelchair but ready to kick back. The same reference can be found in other scenes of the video. The final shot of this scene is a clear homage to the sublime opening credits by Saul Bass from Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Vertigo. What happens after death? We don’t know, but Lady GaGa makes her (apparent) last journey by falling towards a vortex. This shot reminds me of Helmut Newton’s 79 Central Park West, taken in 1977, where a beautiful and naked blonde girl is lying – dead – on a terrace. She’s even wearing square mirrored sunglasses. It looks like her death has been staged: she wears a Thierry Mugler decorated bustier and pearls around her neck, which she didn’t have before the fall. The first part of the video finishes with a fall, which has a double meaning: not only physical, but also symbolic (GaGa is not the it girl anymore, now she’s dead). Paparazzi immediately surround her bloody body and continue taking pictures (this is a reference to the cynicism of the media). They start fighting and she falls from the balaustrade, hitting the ground. The lover is conscious of their presence and he even asks her to smile at them. The blonde singer and her lover are still making out, but this time some paparazzi start taking pictures of them. In the following scene, the action is set on a balcony. In this scene, she’s wearing a white corset and a feather-trimmed robe, rhinestone necklaces, Glovedup patent leather fingerless gloves and Christian Dior rings. The camera captures every detail around the bed – some bills with Lady GaGa’s face and Beats by Dr. Lady GaGa and her lover (the Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgard) are lying on a bed and smooching. The first scenes are set in a beautiful mansion, decorated by statues and colums, and in a bedroom, where objects are scattered all around a bed. The video is shot like a short movie, so it opens and closes with credits. This is a video about the pursue of fame, so it contains autobiographical hints. Well, I was so impressed by what I saw! Paparazzi is directed by Jonas Akerlund, one of my favourite video directors, whose unique mix of glamour, dirt, decadence, death and beauty perfectly turns Lady GaGa’s song in images. I’m not her fan but it cannot be denied that she’s the hottest pop sensation out there, because she is talented and she perfectly manages her image, using clothes, make-up and extravagant hairstyles which always hit the mark.Ī friend of mine asked me to watch her latest music video, Paparazzi, and to tell him my thoughts. I’m not a Lady GaGa fan and I think I’ll never be: her pop music, though strongly influenced by David Bowie and the Queen, is not appealing to me her avant-garde sense of fashion is extremely interesting, but I don’t like her trying too hard to catch the media’s attention and to shock.
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