The Meaning Behind Lady Gaga's "Alejandro" Music Video

     The music video for Lady Gaga's "Alejandro" was released today, and in what has becoming standard Gaga fashion, it clocks in at just under nine minutes.  Nothing in the video is reminiscent of things that are "hot like Mexico", instead it's all Nazis and shirtless Beatles (or are they headed to a Three Stooges convention?).  Earlier today, the video's director, Steven Klein, talked to Rolling Stone about the meaning of the video.

     "She likes epics. It fits her personality. We combined dance, narrative and attributes of surrealism," Klein said. "The process was to express Lady Gaga's desire to reveal her heart and bear her soul."  Although the video seems highly political, Klein commented that, "the politics came out of the story, but was not the official intention."


     The Internet has been abuzz with people discussing their theories behind the clip's meaning.  Sean S. on EW said, "To me, the story/point seems to be addressing gays in the military and religious persecution and the death/killing of love. Everything from the “puppet strings” to the crucifix in the mouth would seem to support that storyline."

     One blogger's mom wrote, "Madonna is going to be pissed to be ripped off so blatantly.  Or shall I say one-upped...the nun's habit in latex, swallowing a rosary, strategically placed crucifix and the machine gun bra definitely are sings she's thrown down the gauntlet!  Still love the song even if the video is just the 2010 version of "Like A Prayer".

     Gaga has her share of critics who believe she is a puppet of the Illuminati, and judging the amount of times she only had one eye showing or the times you could spot a triangle, there are sure to be people who say the video was actually conceived by the devil.  Why else would she eat rosary beads?

     Of course, some people think the video has no deeper meaning.  The bowl cuts for instance, weren't an order from Frau Gaga, they were actually drawn from a recent photo shoot taken by Klein.

     "I don't think there's much hidden meaning in this video at all, other than the red-painted cross at her crotch that could be her laughing at the rumors that she has a male member," said a CMR writer.

     The video ends with Gaga lying motionless on a bed next to a motionless man, both of them attached to puppet strings.  The clip then burns out from the center, similar to the ending of the film Two-Lane Blacktop, which creates the haunting subliminal image that flashed during the video's preview clips.  How sure are we that there wasn't anymore subliminal images thrown into the real video?  If you have an unexplainable inkling to wear cigarettes as sunglasses, resist.

     [Edit: Hours after the video premiered, MTV e-mailed Klein to ask him directly the meaning of the video.  Here's what he had to say:

"The religious symbolism is not meant to denote anything negative, but represents the character's battle between the dark forces of this world and the spiritual salvation of the Soul," Klein wrote. "Thus at the end of the film, she chooses to be a nun, and the reason her mouth and eyes disappear is because she is withdrawing her senses from the world of evil and going inward towards prayer and contemplation."
Klein added that the scene in which Gaga ingests the rosary beads is meant to represent "the desire to take in the holy." 

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