Lady Gaga Released The Video For “911”
Lady Gaga just released the video for “911”, the third single off her album Chromatica. It follows singles “Stupid Love” and “Rain On Me” ft. Ariana Grande. She performed all three songs at the VMAs last month. Apparently “911” was written about Gaga’s experiences on an antipsychotic drug called olanzapine, which she takes because she “can’t always control things that my brain does.” Join the club, Stef! The video is fairly standard artsy fartsy Gaga featuring a surprise twist this side of Chicago Med.
It begins with her lying in the desert, blindfolded, surrounded by broken bicycle parts and pomegranates. She follows Zorro to a temple. There’s lots of weird rituals, costumes, religious iconography, and Gaga’s patented frenetic hand dancing (messy voguing that makes her look like she’s shooing away a swarm of wasps). At one point she’s flown like a kite, which was just done.
Then, around 3:30, the song ends and the reeeal show begins. It’s revealed the entire music video was all in Gaga’s head (Bob Newhart should sue). She’s been in a car accident! She’s lying on a gurney! Her leg is fucked! She’s using every inch of her Oscar-nominated act-ting skills to scream for her motherfuckin’ life (it’s… not her best work). We survey the scene… everything she dreamt she subconsciously Keyser Sözed from the location of the crash. It was all an allegory for death and shit. Mind? Blown. Leg? Crushed. Ear? Wormed.
Now, if you’re into Chromatica, you know the most memed part of the album has been the transition from the instrumental “Chromatica II” into “911”. Gaga covers both songs in the video, but the transition she came up with is kinda meh. Really shoulda opted for one of these beauts:
Chromatica II into 911 but Helen Sharp gets a hole shot into her stomach pic.twitter.com/gTYl5vWwEp
— Helen Sharp’s Bonus Hole (@dickrtreat) June 23, 2020
Chromatica II to 911 but it’s Jennifer Coolidge saying “hi” pic.twitter.com/ciBi7VVGI4
— Online_Mike (@MichaelFails) July 13, 2020
Pic: YouTube