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Originally Posted by Skaligojurah
Have Gaga videos ever made sense? or music videos in general?
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Look at her earlier videos. They at least had something to do with the music. In Just Dance she was at a party. In LoveGame she drew a heart to represent love. Eh Eh Nothing Else I Can Say was a bright song, so there was bright, happy imagery to match. The videos only stopped making sense after The Fame Monster.
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I mean, remember music videos are commercials not art.It's just supposed to be a collection of random images in order to create some sort of emotional impulses in order to create an association between the listener, and the sound in order to keep it in memory.
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Commercials can be art. Graphic Design is a well-known form of art that is used commercially. Therefore, Music Videos can be art if it is a commercial.
And even that doesn't make sense. Music Videos are rarely shown on air. If it was only a commercial and just that, why do they keep showing it?
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Seeing as it was a particularly weak single it's obvious that Gaga's going to pull out all the stops, and pair it with powerful high budget imagery in order to make up for the loss.
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True.
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It doesn't matter if it means anything, that's for artists, and somebody who is about as artistic as a bag of cheetoes obviously is going to resort to mass ambiguity as not to polarize an audience yet keep things as impulsive as possible to keep the ADD generation in tune.
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It does matter if you want to show people. You want to draw people in to listen to your music, why would you put them off with bizarro imagery? Who are they trying to appeal to? Horror Fans? Sci Fi? A Teen audience?
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After all, strong complex imagery to base insultingly simplistic music is what keeps Gaga in business, and the money is rolling. Why change things now?
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She's only done that recently, though. She was a relatively normal pop star when Poker Face hit it big, so she probably feels she could put more creative output that way.
And you just said she was as artistic as a bag of cheetoes. Why are you calling her imagery complex now?