# Lady Gaga "Bad Romance" video **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 11, 2009, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-bad-romance-video/517144 "2009-11-11T03:49:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-bad-romance-video/517144/21 "2009-11-13T01:08:17Z")
> [@KarlGrenze](#): > > That was Thriller-wannabe part. Interestingly, she did a few different MJ dance moves- including crossing herself. The only GIF I can find of him doing it is [this](http://i25.tinypic.com/wlf0b4.jpg) (ha), but she does it exactly, including the bit after. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-bad-romance-video/517144/22 "2009-11-13T01:24:35Z")
I don’t like the fact that I can’t tell whether she’s hot or not. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-bad-romance-video/517144/23 "2009-11-13T01:57:57Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > nor is she the world’s best dancer > [@statsman1982](#): > > She’s actually quite talented, much more than most of the pop stars out there today. She has a hand in writing her own music The modern world saddens me… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-bad-romance-video/517144/24 "2009-11-13T02:42:53Z")
I was delighted to see those freaky Alexander McQueen hoof shoes make their appearance in the video – I should have guessed they’d appeal to her. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-bad-romance-video/517144/25 "2009-11-13T03:53:04Z")
You know, I always forget about YouTube comments. “you people really do not see all the illuminati symbolism in this video?? really?? are you serious??..she is NOT a gift to this music generation she doesnt even sing about anything but sex and partying and money like how is that a gift? shes rubbing it in your face that shes famous and rich and your fighting for her pocket change. come on peeps wake up lady gaga may have talent but its not being used in the right way. im not a hater i just can see what shes portraying and know who she works for” ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-bad-romance-video/517144/26 "2009-11-13T04:36:50Z")
I think I am going to have nightmares from that video. It reminded me of the [Cremaster Cycles](http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&um=1&sa=1&q=cremaster+cycle&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g1&start=0). ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-bad-romance-video/517144/27 "2009-11-13T04:46:44Z")
> [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](#): > > I agree the video is very impressive and the song is quite catching. I can’t remember the last time a mainstream music video had such a creepy atmosphere. The body horror scenes were subtle and well made. I didn’t see anything remotely close to human trafficking. And it didn’t look even a little disturbing. It just looked like generic and dull to me–where was the creepy atmosphere? The trafficking? ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-bad-romance-video/517144/28 "2009-11-13T05:22:16Z")
Well, I thought the video was somewhat interesting - honestly, it reminded me of a Marilyn Manson video. A lot. In fact I would go so far to say that she cribbed many of the images from him. However, I’m totally comfortable with the fact that he cribbed the images from someone else before him, so no harm, no foul. The song, on the other hand, was typical over processed pop dreck; however, pop isn’t really my thing so if experts/fans say it’s good I’ll take their word for it. I must say, it was as pleasant departure from the ego-fests that Mariah Carey puts out (assuming she’s still considered pop). God I want to punch that woman in the face. And finally, can we just clear up the whole ‘Lady Gaga is intersexed’ thing? There are shots of her with a tampon string showing (God would you just DIE! Fire her handlers!) - I’m pretty sure that precludes her from being a boy. Or even kind of a boy. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-bad-romance-video/517144/29 "2009-11-13T06:22:02Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > The modern world saddens me… ☹ Er, why? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-bad-romance-video/517144/30 "2009-11-13T07:07:02Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > Er, why? :dubious: I guess if this is what constitutes one of the talented ones…how bad must the rest be? ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-bad-romance-video/517144/31 "2009-11-13T09:16:28Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > I know that the board here is more or less split on Lady Gaga, but I figured it’d be interesting to see the Dope’s take on Lady Gaga’s latest video, [Bad Romance](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACm9yECwSso). I thought the song was too long and too slow. I cant comment on the quality of the video cause I have not seriously watched videos since the 80’s. Given the choice I would perfer just dance over this one, not sure where she is going in her future , but I hope she comes out with more dancable stuff. Declan ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-bad-romance-video/517144/32 "2009-11-13T12:02:48Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > And finally, can we just clear up the whole ‘Lady Gaga is intersexed’ thing? There are shots of her with a tampon string showing (God would you just DIE! Fire her handlers!) - I’m pretty sure that precludes her from being a boy. Or even kind of a boy. There are those shots? Time to see the video again! I didn’t even notice the fat spiky headed dancer until after second or third viewing… ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-bad-romance-video/517144/33 "2009-11-13T14:47:48Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > Er, why? :dubious: Say that Shakespeare is the best author in the history of the planet. But now someone comes along and says that he’s sub-par because his illustrations aren’t very good. Then another person comes along and says to him that what they’re going to do is find an illustrator and release all of Shakespeare’s works as, actually, the illustrator’s work, and give all the glory, fame, and the majority of all of the money to the illustrator. But now let’s also say that 99% of the time, people are going to enjoy the works of Shakespeare without any illustrations at all. Does this seem like a very far or logical system? To me it strikes me as meaning that people aren’t celebrating the work of Shakespeare, rather they’re grudgingly slogging through the text (99% of the time) because the one illustrator guy draws boobies really well, or something. And yet, they’re not calling the illustrator an “illustrator” they’re calling him “the author”. ---
**Author:** ![phreesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@phreesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phreesh)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-bad-romance-video/517144/34 "2009-11-13T14:52:14Z")
I don’t like the song or video, but I admire that she’s always ‘putting herself out there’ (as it were). It would be safe to just do the typical video of some party where the lyrics are more literally played out, but she does this arthouse weird thing. Like I said, I don’t care for it, but I like that it’s well done and different. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-bad-romance-video/517144/35 "2009-11-13T16:14:02Z")
Meh, Lady Gaga is just Cher for a new generation. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-bad-romance-video/517144/36 "2009-11-13T16:19:34Z")
> [@phreesh](#): > > I don’t like the song or video, but I admire that she’s always ‘putting herself out there’ (as it were). It would be safe to just do the typical video of some party where the lyrics are more literally played out, but she does this arthouse weird thing. > > Like I said, I don’t care for it, but I like that it’s well done and different. It doesn’t really seem all that different to me, though. It looks like a Britney Spears video to me but with weirder fashion and a slightly different song. There’s nothing new here to me. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-bad-romance-video/517144/37 "2009-11-13T17:18:46Z")
> [@KarlGrenze](#): > > There are those shots? Time to see the video again! > > I didn’t even notice the fat spiky headed dancer until after second or third viewing… No, no - not in the video - from a previous, ill-fated, pantless venture: [![](https://salbehe.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/lady_gaga_flashes_her_tampon_string.jpg) ](https://salbehe.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/lady_gaga_flashes_her_tampon_string.jpg) And that, kids, is why it’s best to actually wear a bottom, as well as a top. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-bad-romance-video/517144/38 "2009-11-13T17:19:46Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > And that, kids, is why it’s best to actually wear a bottom, as well as a top. Wearing pants is a good ting: who knew? Though to be fair I suppose if she were wearing a skirt, it could have happened just as easily. I’m sure Lady Gaga would counter with “Modesty is for peons.” ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-bad-romance-video/517144/39 "2009-11-13T17:30:25Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Though to be fair I suppose if she were wearing a skirt, it could have happened just as easily. I’m sure Lady Gaga would counter with “Modesty is for peons.” Maybe; however, I think even Lady Gaga would be slightly nonplussed to have her tampon string showing. Having your period isn’t really sexy and reminding the world that you’re just a regular chick who gets cramps, and bloated, and zitty, and sore boob-y, and grouchy really doesn’t enhance the fem-bot, uber-girl image, ya know? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-bad-romance-video/517144/40 "2009-11-13T17:37:24Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > Maybe; however, I think even Lady Gaga would be slightly nonplussed to have her tampon string showing. > > Having your period isn’t really sexy and reminding the world that you’re just a regular chick who gets cramps, and bloated, and zitty, and sore boob-y, and grouchy really doesn’t enhance the fem-bot, uber-girl image, ya know? If I were going to be uber conspiracy theory-ist, I’d say that that was a faux tampon string. No, not to cover up her being a man but to cover up her being a fembot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-bad-romance-video/517144.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-bad-romance-video/517144.md?page=3)