Lady Gaga is a genius. Maybe it's her choreographers and directors but either way someone behind the Lady Gaga creation is extremely intelligent! From the beat of the music that makes the viewer or listener tap their foot to the insane costumes, that only someone under the alias of Lady Gaga could pull off, captures an audience.
Lady Gaga's lyrics are basic and easy to understand. The majority of the time they are appropriate. Her verses are short and simple. When she sings, it is easy to understand what she says. There is always some message that Lady Gaga tries to get out to the audience. Most of the time the audience has to listen to her songs a few times to understand what she is trying to get across to the listener because the first few times you listen to it you are taping you foot and dancing.
In the Bad Romance video Lady Gaga has fourteen different outfits. This shows that her producers and costume designers know that to keep the attention of her audience they must change her outfits, the scenes and the choreography throughout the entire video. The video is five minutes and seven seconds. During this time Lady Gaga is seen in fourteen outfits in eleven different scenes. These outfits grabbed my attention and they changes so quickly. It is extremely hard to not pay attention because the viewer wants to see what is going to happen in the next twenty seconds of the music video.
The dancing is strange but interesting. The outfits are nothing a viewer would expect to see in a "normal" music video but with this choreography it works perfectly. The dancing is interesting because it is basic movements of the body that almost anyone with two legs and two arms can do yet the moves add some much to the video. The movements and positions of her body tells the viewer the mood of the video and also explains parts of the plot by simple gestures.
Lady Gaga is extremely clever. By creating an alias she can be and do almost anything. She can change her outfits and hair styles fifty times a day and the tabloids will criticize Lady Gaga and not Stefani Germanotta. The name Lady Gaga itself attracts attention and viewers because an audience would be interested to learn who this person is calling themselves "Lady Gaga". Lady Gaga is a genius! She can entertain an audience for hours on end, sing, dance and wear anything imaginable. Lady Gaga is a master at getting a message across to an audience, not matter how many ways it can be interpreted.
Thanks Jamie. I like the ideas you explore in your third paragraph. Perhaps part of Lady Gaga’s strategy is that she makes her videos “hard to follow.” The abundance of costumes and scene changes force her audience to be easily distracted. You also identify the dancing in the Lady Gaga video. It seems to me that this is by far the weakest part of her performance. I agree; most people should be able to do the moves that she does. You are definitely at your strongest, as an analyst, when you’re looking at specific aspects of the performance. Be aware of being repetitive. I think you tell me three times that Lady Gaga “is a genius.” That might be a bit excessive.
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