Poptacular !

How amazing is pop music?
Fanfuckingamazing is my answer.
The joyful lyrics lift my soul and lead me to a place filled with rainbows and lesbian unicorns dancing on clouds!~ Okay, maybe I went too far, but it is really quite fantastic. Pop music has had a profound effect on me, I remember listening to Bobby McFerrin's "Don't worry be happy" as a kid and humming and dancing to the song in the lounge room, wishing that I could whistle the opening part, or rather, whistle at all, and just feeling generally cheery. That's what pop music does. It creates happiness and nostalgia. Here is the link to the video clip for the song if you would like to view it - it's rather cute.

Sup guys - Prince E here to wham the amazingness of pop music in your face, and it kick it off a notch, why not talk about the Queen of Pop herself, Lady Gaga! Oh my goodness, don't you just love her? Each and everyone of her songs has an underlying message and every prop, outfit and action in her videos is laced with a story.

Bad Romance, I know you have all seen her video clip or heard of the song - I jizzed at the marvellousness this is. This song is about her willing to do absolutely anything to achieve fame in the music industry. It goes on about how she knows that the industry is "diseased" and "ugly" but she still desires it's love as she knows it can provide. She uses references to the Egyptian sun God "Ra" in the beginning, and alludes to Hitchcock's movies - Psycho and Vertigo -

I want your psycho
Your vertigo stick 


The video clip depicts these lyrics in a different manner. It begins with her emerging from what appears to be a new age coffin, wearing a tight white (symbolising her purity?) latex (?) like outfit, her awkward actions show that she is "fresh" to this world, and wanting more. She is then seen in a bathtub to "wash off her sins" and has wide eager eyes and unruly peach hair. Two woman emerge and she tries to fight them off, but ends up succumbing and accepts her fate with her hands lifted on the side. She is then forced into her duties as a sex slave - the men in the room representing the larger players in the music industry. In the end, she is laying on a bed, with the man she had intercourse with: burnt. This symbolises that she will not follow the rules of the music industry in order to gain fame.

So many ideas within one video - not enough time to yap on about all of them! Her lyrics, her videos, Lady Gaga - everything symbolises something. We are drawn into her use of timeless references which expand our knowledge and encourages us to delve deeper into the issues in our society - namely, the music industry in "Bad Romance".

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