Beth Ray Writes

Can I Talk To You About Lady Gaga’s Music Videos

The year is 2009, Beyonce, Katy Perry and Rihanna are a few of the international artists who feature heavily in the UK charts and we have fun pop music videos that are repeated every hour on MTV or TMF. Then suddenly all our pop diva dreams are answered when a brand new international artist, Lady Gaga, arrives and presents to us her music video for her latest single “Just Dance”. She’s wearing huge square sunglasses and has an unusual lightning sticker plastered on her cheek. The music video is fun, if a little bit different to the usual polished pop videos we’re used to watching. Lady Gaga is writhing around on a sofa and dancing with her mates to the hit song, without much of a story to the video other than she’s an artist having a really good time at a party. She appears to be the cool, rebellious, party girl and her song quickly climbs to the top of the charts.

For those who can’t remember, Lady Gaga came to fame over in the UK when she was supporting The Pussycat Dolls on their ‘Doll Domination’ tour, with Gaga’s unusually quirky outfits for that time (hardly wearing anything other than underwear whilst out for dinner and showing off her super high heels) instantly caught the eye of the paparazzi with every tabloid wanting to document about this new American singer who seems to have climbed straight to the top of the charts. At that time we hadn’t really seen a pop star wear such provocative clothes since Madonna and Lady Gaga began to incorporate her outfits from her music videos to her appearances at MTV Music Videos. She was unpredictable which made it exciting as a music fan to watch what she was going to do next artistically.

One of the many reasons I love Lady Gaga are for her exceptional music videos. I used to love when she would premiere her new music video on MTV and they would be over 5 minutes long. They would tell a story and it presented her songs visually in a way you imagined Gaga wanted them to be.

“When I look back on my life, it’s not that I don’t want to see things exactly as they happened. It’s just that I prefer to remember them in an artistic way“

These are the opening lines from Gaga’s music video to “Marry The Night” which is a whole 13minutes and 50 seconds long. I wanted to dedicate a whole post to these music videos as I think they need their own recognition of being iconic and created the excitement of when an artist released new music that I miss so much these days.

So here are my top 10 favourite Lady Gaga music videos, expect lots of nudity, exceptional dance routines, AMAZING outfits that were ahead of the time, a few celeb cameos and a reminder that Gaga was refreshing and iconic when it came to making a brilliant music video.

A word of warning, 8 out of 10 of these tracks are over 5 minutes long so I suggest you enjoy divulging in some iconic Gaga for the next hour and shut off from the rest of the world whilst you immerse yourself with Mother Monster.

So here are my top 10 Lady Gaga music videos, starting with number 10 all the way to my favourite at number 1. Make sure to comment below which Lady Gaga is your favourite and why!

Beth x

10. We have Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande with Rain On Me.
9. Lady Gaga- G.U.Y the only music video on my list from the ARTPOP era.
8. Lady Gaga- Alejandro
7. Lady Gaga – Million Reasons. This video continues from the “Perfect Illusion” music video and it doesn’t quite fit with the usual Gaga video of abstract visuals. However I adore this song and I love her matching pink suit and cowboy hat.
6. Lady Gaga- 911. My favourite music video from the Chromatica album, please make sure you watch the whole video to the end….

5. Lady Gaga- Telephone feat Beyoncé. Of course this one had to be in the top 5, the iconic cola cans in the hair, the dance routine and Beyonce all contribute to making this brilliant music video that every Gaga and Beyonce fan will recognise.

4. Lady Gaga- Bad Romance. So many great looks and the dance routine is one fans will still remember now!
3. Lady Gaga- Marry The Night. Real fans will remember this iconic music video which is a whole 13minutes and 50 seconds long! The song doesn’t start until after 9 minutes in but it doesn’t matter, Gaga shows us music videos can tell a story, have great dance routines and gorgeous makeup and fashion looks all rolled into one. Enjoy!
2. Lady Gaga- Judas. I know this may come as a surprise to many but Judas is one of my favourite music videos of all time. I love all of her looks, I love the dramatic pause towards the end, I have rehearsed the dance routine from it (i’m not joking) and it’s just a whole vibe. I find it is very underrated as a music video in my opinion and I hope you enjoy rewatching it again!
1. Lady Gaga- Paparazzi. My number 1 Lady Gaga music video has to go to Paparazzi because it reminds me of when I fell in love with this pop queen and how I was amazed she created a 7 minute long music video. With Jonas Åkerlund as the music director (very highly praised as a music director having worked with Madonna, Christina Aguileria, Beyoncé, Blink 182, Smashing Pumpkins the list goes on plus he directed the Telephone music video too) it created a lot of hype and presented with the music video a very famous (or infamous you decide) music performance at the VMAS in 2009.

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