With The Fame and, more specifically, "Paparazzi," Gaga stood with these women before anyone else did-before society caught up. To me, Lady Gaga absolutely had something to do with this shift. We've moved into a kinder, more empathetic space. Instead of mocking her addiction, the response has been overwhelmingly supportive. Look at the reaction to Demi Lovato's recent relapse and hospitalization. Thankfully, our culture's come along way since 2008. Gaga clocked this phenomenon in her own subversive way-and showed just how sinister it truly is. ![]() Back then the world delighted in seeing famous women have it all, lose it all, and claw their way back to the top. In many ways the public could be perceived as having destroyed her just to raise her up again-something they've done in various ways to artists like Courtney Love, Madonna, and the late Whitney Houston and Amy Winehouse. It was a sharp turn that felt to me as if people didn't really care about Spears: They just wanted to watch her life play out like a movie. A cleaned-up appearance at the 2008 VMAs and new album, Circus, rehabilitated her image, and the same gossip sites that were hungry for her failure seven months prior were now her biggest champions. This is more or less an exaggerated version of what happened to Spears. As a result, Gaga becomes paralyzed from the waist down, leading newspapers to declare she's "hit rock bottom" and her career is "over." She redeems herself in the end by killing her boyfriend: a drastic act that prompts those same papers to declare, "We love her again!" She did the same thing with the music video for "Paparazzi." It kicks off with her fictional boyfriend, played by actor Alexander SkarsgÄrd, throwing her off a balcony right in front of photographers, who gleefully document the incident. But you couldn't dismiss the image of Gaga bleeding on stage: It shed a light on how terrifying that behavior actually is-and where it can lead. "Well, they asked for it" was a common way to dismiss it. In 2009 few batted an eye at the frenzied and rabid way photographers treated celebrity women. The image of a swarm of male photographers chasing after Lohan in some kind of modern witch hunt is just as disturbing and graphic as Gaga's rehearsed downfall at the VMAs. No, Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan weren't killed in the literal sense, but the scrutiny Gaga illuminated here is what they experienced. I am not sure, just my interpretation :D Great song anyway you look at it!It's a pretty on-the-nose metaphor for what was happening in Hollywood at that period. Part is showing she doesn't care about him in fact at all just getting back at him, she is willing to live her life while trying to get at him. And then the "Real good, we dance in the studio (the music video again) For instance: "but I won't stop" sounds a bit darker the rest. Or, for a crazy interpretation, the whole song is sarcastic and she just wants to get back at him. And she needs more fame then ever to settle herself, and it's driving her insane, (the whole stalker sound part of it) and then people die over it (in the music video for instance) So I am guessing the message is about how ame kills people. Like in the music video, it shows all these women killed by their spouses/boy friends. ![]() Well, watching the music video I think it may be talking about abuse, and how "she" will always love the "abuser" no matter what, even though he trys to kill her for fame. Purple teardrops I cry, it don't have a price Yeah 'cause you're my rock star in between the sets
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