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melluransa) wrote2011-08-16 05:05 pm
melluransa) wrote2011-08-16 05:05 pm
Lady Gaga's "You and I" analysis
Yay... country pop. So here is a half humorous, half serious explanation to Lady Gaga's latest video, "You and I." For whatever reason, there is an umlaut over the "u." That makes it silly, but whatever.
Okay so she's walking, she's been walking a long way from how her feet look. She arrives at an ice cream truck but she doesn't like vanilla. She wanted chocolate. Vanilla is all they sell because that's what everyone else likes (the ice cream truck is labeled "Follow the Crowd.") They like white and pure ice cream. Purity.
Gaga was once white and pure, like a pretty girl who played with dolls...but then she got married. She managed to escape her insane marriage, and her on the run is where where the MV starts. So after her escape, not only did the ice cream man tell her "no vanilla," he taunted her with her lost innocence by waving a doll at her. This made her experience flashbacks.
You see, she got married to a mad scientist husband. He experimented on her and turned her from pure and white to black and fragmented. He treated her like how they treat animals in clinical trials (very cruelly, actually) which is shown by how she and the other animals (backup dancers) are shown in a barn with animal stalls. Animals.
Being with her mad scientist husband changed her fashion and her taste in ice cream, which is why after she left him, she walked that far to get some chocolate ice cream wearing black. She wasn't young, innocent, and pure anymore.
Her husband ended up making her this mermaid thing. There was no water for her, she was just stuck on land in a barn. She wanted real water, longing to wash away the filth and pain from her hubby, hopefully to become pure again in a sort of baptismal moment. In the end, he turned her back to human because you can't make love to your wife if she has a fishtail.
Mermaid Gaga struggled. She was literally a fish out of water. The whole video, she's fighting and resisting him (except for the wedding scene). She hated and loved him, but needed him to pour water over her so she wouldn't die. It was like Stockholm syndrome.
The whole experience made her insane, inducing multiple personality disorder. This is demonstrated by the other two Gaga alter egos in the cornfield; the Greaser-Drifter guy, and the naked-like hippie girl who dances with cornfield nature sprites.
In the cornfield, her alter egos are close to the earth and the growing plants... Pure nature. They're in pure nature, but figuratively, they're so far away. Gaga is so far from being pure.
The ending of the video just shows turmoil and chaos. Her alter egos are drunk, and make out. She's tormented in the barn secret lab... The lyrics say "I'd rather die..."
Dude, and that was just the MV visuals. I watched/listened a second time to the lyrics. She's singing to her lost innocence! It fits so well! This doesn't necesarily mean virginity... maybe youth, naiveté. She's singing to it, telling her purity how she lost it. Someone came to her, luring her away into losing her purity. She sings about how the years have passed. She had some good times, but lost her sanity in the process. She's unfulfilled, longing for the innocence of the past.
Okay so she's walking, she's been walking a long way from how her feet look. She arrives at an ice cream truck but she doesn't like vanilla. She wanted chocolate. Vanilla is all they sell because that's what everyone else likes (the ice cream truck is labeled "Follow the Crowd.") They like white and pure ice cream. Purity.
Gaga was once white and pure, like a pretty girl who played with dolls...but then she got married. She managed to escape her insane marriage, and her on the run is where where the MV starts. So after her escape, not only did the ice cream man tell her "no vanilla," he taunted her with her lost innocence by waving a doll at her. This made her experience flashbacks.
You see, she got married to a mad scientist husband. He experimented on her and turned her from pure and white to black and fragmented. He treated her like how they treat animals in clinical trials (very cruelly, actually) which is shown by how she and the other animals (backup dancers) are shown in a barn with animal stalls. Animals.
Being with her mad scientist husband changed her fashion and her taste in ice cream, which is why after she left him, she walked that far to get some chocolate ice cream wearing black. She wasn't young, innocent, and pure anymore.
Her husband ended up making her this mermaid thing. There was no water for her, she was just stuck on land in a barn. She wanted real water, longing to wash away the filth and pain from her hubby, hopefully to become pure again in a sort of baptismal moment. In the end, he turned her back to human because you can't make love to your wife if she has a fishtail.
Mermaid Gaga struggled. She was literally a fish out of water. The whole video, she's fighting and resisting him (except for the wedding scene). She hated and loved him, but needed him to pour water over her so she wouldn't die. It was like Stockholm syndrome.
The whole experience made her insane, inducing multiple personality disorder. This is demonstrated by the other two Gaga alter egos in the cornfield; the Greaser-Drifter guy, and the naked-like hippie girl who dances with cornfield nature sprites.
In the cornfield, her alter egos are close to the earth and the growing plants... Pure nature. They're in pure nature, but figuratively, they're so far away. Gaga is so far from being pure.
The ending of the video just shows turmoil and chaos. Her alter egos are drunk, and make out. She's tormented in the barn secret lab... The lyrics say "I'd rather die..."
Dude, and that was just the MV visuals. I watched/listened a second time to the lyrics. She's singing to her lost innocence! It fits so well! This doesn't necesarily mean virginity... maybe youth, naiveté. She's singing to it, telling her purity how she lost it. Someone came to her, luring her away into losing her purity. She sings about how the years have passed. She had some good times, but lost her sanity in the process. She's unfulfilled, longing for the innocence of the past.