Those beds are metaphors for what gay men experience when they’re trying to fight their growing erections from their fantasies when trying to sleep at night. As the video carries on, you see her getting “felt up” by a man in a scene with various beds. That’s very blatant and evident in what she wears, the crosses in the background, her swallowing rosemary beads, and so on. Gaga is a modern symbol of the virgin Mary – a cold, religiously bound woman who cares about serving and satisfying Christ. Gaga is simply a symbol for how conflicting religion becomes when a gay man has to emotionally deal with accepting that he’s ‘gay’ when his religion tells him that it’s a sin. Gaga is not meant to be the focus of this video. Those outfits are symbols for the intense religious Christian-Catholic backlash that the LGBT community experiences from religious zealots with how they say that ‘gays are going to hell’, ‘you need jesus,’ ‘being gay is a sin,’ etc. However, as the video progresses, you see Gaga in and out of scenes, wearing these religious outfits. Them marching around in synchronized form represents the role that they’re expected to play in society – Always marching in a tight pattern, never meant to branch off from that gender role. The soldiers in this video are meant to represent the gay, transgendered and bisexual men in this society that are *expected* to be aggressive and fully ‘masculine’ men. While “Alejandro” seems both politically and religiously charged, Klein insists “the politics came out of the story, but was not the official intention.” Madonna’s visual oeuvre seems like the obvious reference point for “Alejandro,” with its not-so-subtle hints of “Like a Prayer” and “Vogue,” but Klein admits that painters, more than any musicians or film directors, influenced the design and spirit of the video.I’m going to basically explain this video to everyone that’s either disgusted by this, indifferent or simply does not ‘understand it.’ “We had planned so much and achieved much of that, but of course some of it we were not able due to time constraints.” “On a music video there is never enough time,” says Klein, who, besides directing tour videos for Madonna, hadn’t tackled an MTV-style project. Like “Bad Romance” before it, the ending of “Alejandro” shows Gaga laying in bed before it culminates in Two Lane Blacktop fashion - Gaga’s blank stare morphs into a specter as the film burns and disintegrates in the projector.Įven though the clip’s running time ballooned beyond the length of standard videos, Gaga and Klein struggled to squeeze all their ideas into the final cut. Gaga swallows rosary beads, simulates sex with her dancers and winks at the “Lady Gaga has a penis” rumors by wearing a red phallus-shaped mark on her crotch. Surrounded alternately by half-naked, monk-haired male dancers in high heels and uniformed soldiers, “Alejandro” avoids one defining plot, opting instead to wow viewers with its intense, provocative political and religious imagery. Get an eyeful of Lady Gaga’s wildest outfits. “The process was to express Lady Gaga’s desire to reveal her heart and bear her soul.” We combined dance, narrative and attributes of surrealism,” Klein, a fashion photographer who in the past has worked closely with Madonna, tells Rolling Stone.

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