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My Bad Romance With Lady Gaga: 63 Close-Ups, And Counting

by Rachel Sklar | 12:59 pm, November 27th, 2009

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Gaga Ra Na Na RA RA RA NA NA NA NA RA NA NA…okay I am maybe a little obsessed with Lady Gaga and her latest single, “Bad Romance,” and its crazy, fantastic video filled with crazy, fantastic costumes. The video, shot by I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence, also has a crazy, fantastic storyline: Lady Gaga emerges from a pod in a white bathhouse, is kidnapped by supermodels, force-fed Ukranian vodka, dressed in couture, lingerie and floating diamonds and is sold to the Russian Mafia as a white-hot concubine. The video is flat-out stunning and must-watch-again-immediately exciting. My only complaint: There is SO MUCH in there, and it goes so fast! Like any obsessed fan, I wanted more. So I took 63 screenshots. Who wouldn’t?

Certainly not you, which is why you are going to watch the video and then click through to study your favorite screenshots with the luxury of time. The video is so opulent, so gorgeous, and so detail-rich that it really does merit a closer look. For some, that closer look will be motivated by the trademark scanty costumes (where, indeed, they are worn at all) — Lady Gaga and Co. are big fan of the body-hugging latex, the highly-accessorize barely-there bikini and showing off her new supermodel-esque figure (vive la difference)(by the way, I am amazed that this shot made it past the censors, unusually lingering as it was…it gives you more than enough time to notice the see-through fabric on her black lacy thong…all the way through. Okay, FEK, I think we have pretty conclusive evidence here.) But for aesthetes, fashion-philes and fans of the fabulous, this video is as addictive and compelling as anything Gaga is singing about. Put it this way: I want this video’s love, and I don’t want to be friends.

Watch it below, and then take your time with the close-ups. You won’t be sorry.

In no particular order. Click on the thumbnails screenshots, then click for close-ups. How amazing is she? Love love love, she’s got my love.

http://www.twitter.com/kgotkin Kevin Gotkin

Ha! And all the gays thought Levi’s photoshoot was going to be drool-worthy. This is exponentially more so.
Chuckjones

You did a great job with the screen shots. What’s amazing is that there are a lot of great shots not included in this exhaustive set. For example, her spitting on the Supermodel (very super, by the way – who is she?), or her reveal when she’s in front of the mirror dressed in black. Such a rich video. Every scene is interesting and well done. Reminds me of a Hitchcock movie (and she pays homage to him during the song and video). The video is a very fast 5 minutes. A Lady Gaga movie could be mind altering.
Rachel Sklar

If you post the timestamp of when the shots are you’d like to see I’ll grab them!
http://the-w.com/ CRZ

Oh dear. I guess we don’t have to ask how you spent (parts of over four hours of) your Thanksgiving. Maybe change those filenames next time? Maybe…consider rehab?
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(I couldn’t resist)
http://www.sailrabbits.com Magister

…though it is an interesting post. I just wish the thumbnails clicked through to the largest version.
jimmymaher

I would expect nothing less from her. Crazy video. Crazy outfits. She’s great and everything she touches right now turns to gold. Add this one to the list amazing Gaga hits. But definitely HOT!.
Gunpowder Tea
Rachel Sklar

Haaa ooops CRZ got me, I forgot to finish the headers/captions for the screenshots. CRZ you just got a window into my life – obsessive screengrabbing and hours and hours spent on the computer. And hours spent with Lady Gaga are never a waste. But p.s. I had an awesome Thanksgiving. Hope you did too! I’ll fix those headers now…
Rachel Sklar

p.s. Sorry you need to click again for the big version, I don’t know how to fix that.
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