Analyzing The BORN THIS WAY ERA Music Videos By LADY GAGA (Part 2)

[@antarescp4733]

The music video of Marry The Night is the artistic way of retelling her past, as she says at the beginning: "it's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting and as the artist of the painting I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again." So she randomly speaks French, healthcare workers wearing high heels, she is a ballerina at one point etc. are obviously not "real", they are just how she fills in those ugly holes (eg. her past of being sexually assaulted by producers and rejected by music labels). A similar concept is seen in the music video of 911, where the "ugly" reality is reinterpreted and represented in a more stylish and artistic way.

[@キング-l6b]

Born this way is the best creation that has ever been created since Earth

[@donovanpalacios8322]

The bible was never a good creation hahaha but Born This Way indeed was.

[@キング-l6b]

@@donovanpalacios8322 periodttx

[@kodi2701]

You writed ARTPOP a little different

[@キング-l6b]

Every album has its universe and I live on artpop's universe 🤘🏼

[@kodi2701]

@@キング-l6b period, love your picture tho

[@sharkboyalan]

This video is about how she got “backstabbed” (in her case raped) by a music producer early in her career. And then dropped from Def Jams records.

[@MiracleWinchester]

You can say LA Reid, it's okay. We hate him too.

[@EDERRRL]

She was dropped by deft jam the record label. Then she was signed by interscope the sing in the hand says the address and date with interscope records.

[@elenavaleria9943]

Also, her manager from Def Jam raped her. Denoucing him was what got her contract with def jam terminated (she was a unknown face at the time, the man simply had all the power over her x.x). That's why she was in the hospital in the beggining, and that's why faries fly out of her skirt in the balerina scene... it simbolizes her loosing her inocence as a person and as an artist ;/

[@volcrazy89]

Gaga was in the hospital with some health struggles, and when she got out, she was contacted by Def Jam letting her know they were dropping her. She then moved back to NYC, and she was signed to Interscope in 2007. This song is an encapsulation of that time period between when she was in the hospital to when she was scheduled to meet with Interscope.

[@Jiaqua]

wasn’t she r*ped by a music producer from def jam records, and after she was ab*rting the baby she got dropped in 2006??

[@Leandro-xk3co]

Has the story changed now that we know about the abortion?

[@Leandro-xk3co]

@GagaHM look for the apple interview

[@juniorlks1]

Don't forget to react to The Edge of Glory and Yoü and I. They came before Marry the Night, actually.

[@killlamas57]

Edge of Glory is boring and he doesn’t need to watch it. you and I is a really good music video though.

[@kiamosky4340]

Shady Tyrell how is it boring ?

[@hausofash-zf8db]

@@killlamas57 edge of glory is top 5 favorite music video of hers. You have to really know Gaga and appreciate her love for New York and theater and see inside her head. The color texture of the video, the outfit, the entrance and exit through he window, THE KISS ON THE SIDEWALK!!! Whew I had to take a breath. I got amped up and exited. Lol. To each their own. But not a boring video. GAGA couldn't make a bad video if she tried.

[@marcusevans119]

ashley summerfield THIS!!!! exactly how i feel about the edge of glory video. yes it’s simple but there’s truly so much heart and passion in it than almost any other video of hers. new york holds so much pride within gaga and she showed it in the video

[@killlamas57]

Edge of Glory video is visually appealing but it stays one image for the whole video. Nothing changed. I thought they would at least have it start at night and transition through sunrise and maybe even end with all the people coming out of the homes at sunrise and bustling down the street over taking a breathless Gaga staring up the camera as it zooms out and fades to cut. Would’ve been a little more interesting.

[@jaqpg]

"when you work hard for your dreams, you become a satellite" LMAO he's just so funny

[@KylePitre]

and now... shes a satellite

[@zingerbarre]

The gummybears are basic pop girls. Gaga is the knife

[@stablexit]

Hernan Morales stfu chromatica’s legendary

[@filhoman7]

Hernan Morales Chromatica is fucking legendary

[@energyismygame]

chromatica is basic af except for babylon and replay

[@anderrhapsody9753]

The SHADEEEE... I don't wanna say the name

[@dhaatkidd402]

Pls explain?

[@joshcortez9265]

Hilarious that you mentioned the 80s movie reference bc Gaga once said that she wanted every song on the album to sound like they could be the credits song for an 80s movie!!!

[@jk-si2dc]

It's true. She wad dropped by def jam bcos she refused to use auto tune. That's why her song paper gangsta on the fame was heavily auto tuned to shade her former label.

[@yspinkblue7787]

Not real at all. Bc she used auto tune in The Fame and The Fame Monster. She was dropped bc they didn’t like the songs she wrote and were inpatient with her. Instead of letting her take her time, they just dropped her ass. That was the real confirmation by one of the heads of Def Jam who told the story.

[@BTaylorU]

I believe “born this way” has her best work. MTN is a masterpiece

[@RealLordGaga]

She is raising pop videos to the level of high art. She has even woven Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 in there, which I believe she played herself. That's what distinguishes Gaga from all the artists who have preceded her. .. autobiographical yes, but with surrealist elements that you can't just subject to logical explanation. This video still awaits an adequate aesthetic appreciation. Gaga's talent is immense.

[@Hamdanic]

i'm working my a** off, i really wanna become a satellite.

[@Decadancehallking]

It took me a while (stupid man brain) to put together the clinic was most likely a domestic violence/ assualt ward of some kind. Considering Gaga told us she was sexually assaulted when she was first coming up in the music biz, that pretty much confirms it, id say. Then she gets dropped from her label, and it seems these things happened pretty close to eachother, hence her breakdown. She may have added somee choreography, glitter, and grease to the story but I bet this is one of her most honest and raw videos about her past shes put out

[@amine8073]

"no intemacy for 2 weeks" hits different now that we know about the sexual assault...

[@Decadancehallking]

@@amine8073 absolutely 😩

[@megael0]

Glitter and grease, if you know what i mean

[@Jay_R_]

I think the video deals with a lot of abuse that she unfortunately had to suffer through before she got signed to Interscope (and in turn becoming exactly who she wanted to be/was meant to be), such as her horrible cocaine addiction, to her sexual assault(s), her bulimia, her self-hate, etc, etc... I always thought the ward was basically a Detox facility that she was at due to her drugs and alcohol abuse, but what you said does make sense. Especially with what @T said about the ‘no intimacy for two weeks’ bit

[@chlagace]

@@amine8073 could that refer to an abortion she got after being raped? if only we knew even half of what she went through

[@eyeofthasky]

5:52 the scene is about being raped, when you saw her back earlier on it was red cause it was bruised by being beaten. she is talking about "making it" "becoming" a star in this moment, cuz sexual harasment is something many women are experiencing on their journey in this busyness, like she herself had to suffer.

[@jeansnow1116]

Great reaction ! Lady gaga is currently 34, she was born in march 1986 In this video she was 25 but yes the flashback represented 20 year-old her

[@dougdoesall]

I think she's just as good an actress here. She's realistically playing the part of a young messed up fragile girl. It's very convincing to me. She's also playing it in the anticipatory mode that it's in the venue of a music video. Not that this makes it any less of a performance, but it calls for a slight hint of drama...slight...that makes it a hint bigger than as if it was a movie about a young messed up girl.

[@heirloom906]

Yes, her acting was good here. I don’t know from what perspective he thinks it’s “night” compared to “day” (ASIB). She definitely was fantastic in ASIB but this isn’t bad at all.

[@Thescrantondude]

Be ready for ARTPOP, it's gonna be mostly Edm type of music, it's art. For real.

[@tskaewkampang8981]

13:40 Fact: The director didn't expect the rainfall and almost cancel filming the scene, but Gaga decides to continue to film cause she got the rain for free and it makes her vibe for this scene perfect. sorry for my grammar :)

[@tsfbaf303]

It literally says directed by Lady Gaga

[@kareemzi]

Marry the Night music video is one of my absolute favorite videos❤ and very underrated 😥

[@j.suis9668]

The ending~ (Satellite head piece) is her representing a “phoenix” - a creature that rises again from flames nd ashes. ⚔️✨🖤

[@TheFerrer13]

My favorite song of Gaga ❤️😍

[@cristianandresospinacastan8111]

Marry the night always touchs my heart! ❤️ I'm crying

[@dougdoesall]

On the note that the story is cliche'...Hitchcock said he has no care what a story is about. He could care less about the plot. To him it was the telling of the story that matters. Cliche', not cliche'...doesn't matter.

[@khaledcalderone]

"I had to watch for for film school" Best thing i heard, we stan an iconic reference

[@michellesm1nd]

i hold the mary the night music video so close to my heart, i watch it every few months just to recenter myself honestly

[@sofiamonteirobastos1390]

Dont forget You and I and The Edge Of Glory music videos

[@alana2030]

i’ve been waiting for this

[@callumpritchard662]

alana : samee

[@cikotan6994]

"And now she is a satellite 📡 " I WAS SCRREAAMMINNGGG 💀💀

[@monsterzan1072]

15:11 my favorite part of your video. You summed it up all. That’s what she wants to tell in this song.

[@TheLalapopo123]

Interesting fact of this video... it started to rain heavily on set and the producers told her they might need to shut the set down. Gaga said absolutely not. We got free rain, roll the cameras and turn the lights back on. She would pay for any damaged equipment.

[@Franco-eh2jn]

I'm gonna be a star Me for the 1000th time: 😭😭🥺🥺🥺😭😭 Taylor: 😶

[@gabot397]

Where's The Edge of Glory and Yoü and I?!!!

[@melroseface1819]

I don’t think gaga has ever talked about if she had an abortion …. But I believe from this video she went through that. Her doctor is def some type of ob/gyn as she talked about delivering her. She tells her everything went well (referring to a procedure) and implies she’s being given morphine. Advises her no intimacy for 2 weeks. And gaga says she “has nothing left to lose”. Just my interpretation

[@masonobrien2342]

6:31 I watched A Star Is Born for the first time earlier this week and I agree with you. Gaga plays a really good character where she eventually becomes a star. Like a real star. Gaga’s character Ally didn’t like to write songs because she didn’t feel like it. She also said she wasn’t going to make it because of the shape of her nose. Ally then went on to write Shallow and sing it with Jack in front of the grocery store to prepare for their performance. After this performance and Always Remember Us This Way, she started to win awards, perform on SNL and have a concert. Ally went in the studio and recorded Look What I Found, another original song. I can see how you’re relating this music video to A Star Is Born.

[@Charlyedgar]

This is art.

[@charlotterickard8335]

The song she was playing from Beethoven is about a man who accepts his imminent death, but realizes he had unfinished business so he made a deal with the devil

[@tangentpuppet]

IMO, Gaga's very best mv. Her solo directorial debut and cinematography by Darius Khondji who also shot Seven, Delicatessen, Midnight in Paris... Just a breathtaking short film MV about one of the worst moments in her life, her r*pe, and drop from her label. An artistic rendering of course.

[@moe3691]

That whole album (music&videos) is top tier. Gaga is amazing, but that right there is Mother Monster...

[@terry2843]

Marry the Night one of the BEST videos of all time.

[@ChrisNB]

Love your style of reacting to videos & how you do deep dives. Thanks!

[@Ricky-xs8wm]

I'm reminded of Pop Up Video when I read your little bit about where the videeo was recorded etc. Love it!

[@andTOEneeOH]

Omg lmao Rocky with the Marry the Night Audio was fucking epic!

[@peeedrosanandres3877]

his little hair coming out of his hat makes him look like timmy turner

[@m3rrys0ngstr3ss]

I mentioned it in the comments on the other video, but "Marry the Night" came out really when I needed it to. I'd loved the song all summer, but then the day before the music video dropped, I'd gotten in some pretty serious trouble at school (I was a junior in college). It was my own fuck-up, no question, but I felt like such dog-shit about it, especially because it was right around my birthday. I won't say the video made me feel "better", but it at least got me out of my head for a bit so I could actually enjoy a night out with my friends. Edit - Suddenly reminded of a cool detail in re-watching the video - Gaga's expressly saying she's not gonna let anyone else go through what she did if she can help it. Notice when her ballet audition starts going wrong (probably right after her sexual assault), no one came to help her? She's sobbing on the ground, top torn off, and these five other dancers won't even look at her. When she's at the new studio and the girl she's paired with hits the floor, what does she do? She immediately stops and pulls her up. I don't know if that other girl was someone who also got hurt by a producer or if she was just having a bad day, but I can imagine Gaga thinking "Oh HELL no, not on my watch" and getting the other girl back up before someone accidentally steps on her.

[@ruysantus]

Marry the Night is such a beautiful song and the video is amazing aswell, I love the Prélude Pathétique. Great video! Plz don't foget The Edge of Glory and Yoü and I MV's they were before MTN =)

[@debspvr]

i love this mv it's so intense

[@juandelsol9433]

The cars exploding represent each record label she got rejected. It's like the car that goes to one path but it failed. The car she sits, where she played the right song, represents Interscope.

[@Caro_BlackMagdalene]

Nobody knew back in 2011 but looking at it now it makes sense, she was signed into DefJam Records at 19 years old in NY, some years later she confessed that she was rapped at 19 years old by a record producer and left pregnant 😢 but she was dropped by the label like 3 months after she was signed, I think about this period she had a mental breakdown and very dark thoughts, she did drugs, she cut herself and went through many difficulties but eventually went out, continued making music and I think this is the period when she met Lady Starlight and did a performance art piece with her on bars spraying cans on fire and then did a show at Lollapalooza in 2007, also working with producer Rob Fusari who gave her the name Lady Gaga and she went to LA and got signed to Interscope Records in 2007, wrote songs for other artists and eventually dyed her hair blonde and released her debut album in 2008. The Hospital scene and what happened at her apartment, cuz she was living alone in the lower east side of NY since she was 18 so, it makes sense to her tragic traumatic experience, she was hinting to that but told nobody until 2013 in ARTPOP era when she wrote an angry song called Swine about that bastard producer and went public with her sexual abuse, although she never said his name. Music is the thing that constantly saves her life and she made that clear on Chromatica that whole album is about dealing with her chronic pain from the broken hip and fibromyalgia and also her mental health issues as a consecuence of her trauma, but music has this healing energy that keeps her going. ♥️🙏🏻

[@composerreviews]

Can’t wait to see the next Eras!!! Love the series

[@hugolopes25]

Taylor don't forget the track Hair has a music video but it's a live performance from syndey monster hall

[@vincewarque1351]

Im super excited on how youd perceive you and i mv, no one was able to decipher that mv HAHAHAHAH

[@jamesmayoral5949]

i’ll LITERALLY PAY you to react to the artRave concert on youtube when you get to Artpop just because i feel like you’d appreciate how much work she put into it

[@mapandache8239]

omg same

[@Marjol]

It's not really a good representation of what it actually was like though. She screams a lot during this version for some reason. I've found that people who aren't fans find it unpleasant to listen to.

[@amine8073]

pay him to watch the born this way ball instead since he said it's a live type of album he'll love it more

[@RalphGermanotta]

I love all your reacts man, you get the video. ❤️

[@fcp3589]

Don't forget you and I. It's her best video

[@garrettchace]

The phone call was her getting dropped from her first record label. She snapped and tried to kill herself and landed in a mental hospital. Then, at the end, is her getting her first meeting at her new record label. The very, very end, I believe, is her selling her soul over to the industry. This video is all very autobiographical.

[@tyradavis6045]

Not you weird conspiracy theorists, always thinking someone sold their soul just because they are successful and you’re jealous

[@garrettchace]

Tyra Davis I’m a huge Gaga fan so chill. What exactly do you suppose it means? She had her meeting at interscope set up and then the next scene is literally in an underground world with flames all around her... it’s not some crazy conspiracy I just pulled out of my ass. She always talks about the industry and how evil it can be/what it’s done to her and how people only use her. Notice how I said sold her soul to the industry, not the devil 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@mr.galactica1630]

Good videos man! With knowledge, criterion, and funny moments 🤙🏼👍🏼 good work 😉

[@poulllorca]

Your satellite joke realy got me hahahahshshshshshs

[@estebanbohorquez659]

PLEASE REACT TO ARTPOP! Greetings from Colombia!

[@oscar30579]

Venus is an underrated bop!!

[@estebanbohorquez659]

@@oscar30579 Totally, it's one of my favs! Actually Artpop is entirely my favourite album of her.

[@idontactuallykno]

what do you think a deep dive is

[@benjaminnieves228]

I love how genuinely real Taylor gets within these reactions...also Can't wait for the Melanie Martinez deep dives, I know you'll love them!

[@josheads5409]

I’m obsessed with how hot you are, then you break out the glasses!! 😍 and I’ve followed your entire lady Gaga deep dive cause she is my absolute favorite artist and I think you are going to LOVE LOVE LOVE Joanne and Chromatica. I can’t wait to see you react to them

[@MiracleWinchester]

He seems tall too

[@pseudodark]

the glassessss haha give you a serious energy

[@karlwesneski7593]

Even her speaking voice is f*cking beautiful

[@fedssays6676]

Marry the night was the last music video released from the Born this way era. I was expecting edge of glory and yoü and I. I's fine though. I ❤️ it.

[@JoseDiaz-sr2yn]

i love thus guy goddd

[@erickmancebo]

when the rocky scene came on i lost all control of my nervous system. havent laughed that hard in a while

[@ClaytonGoldhawk]

Fun fact: Lady gaga did all of her stunts in this video. So all the car explosions were real and she was admit on being there when they did. Her mom and dad were said to be really upset with this decision

[@rafaelt1960]

The rain was an unpaid actor ✌️😌 she said in an interview that it started raining while shooting and the director wanted to cut and finish for the day because of the equipment getting wet but she said "we've got free rain... If sth happens I'll pay for the cameras" and the rest is history

[@petsa.7861]

yeyy new gaga vid! ❤

[@andersonberrios]

The night!!!, The night!!!, THE NIGHT!!!!!!

[@mikemi1908]

This is the best music video I've ever seen

[@stromano8833]

Right! She was dropped by Def Jam and subsequently got a job with Interscope. Look at her now. 😄

[@cuatesanz5611]

Can't wait for ArtPop!

[@IgorSoares-lz6wu]

16:50 😂😂♥️♥️♥️

[@mapandache8239]

I always get so excited when u upload a new gaga reaction, I love this channel

[@itscesarbtch3451]

Marry the night is the greatest song ever in pop history .

[@grandeyasser2229]

Can we talk about Roberts with glasses

[@francolucianoruiz393]

React to Collxtion I and II. Allie X es sick!! Please 😭💖😭

[@spencersantana1633]

anything by allie x, tbh. her whole discography is GOLD.

[@andersonberrios]

Please

[@Bi11ieTheDo11]

“She started speaking English again” why is that making me laugh so hard! Lol 😂

[@jasonmurray8184]

My interpretation of her weirdly speaking in French has to do with what she says in the beginning, that she has to fill in all the ugly holes during a traumatic event. This music video has an interesting link to her latest music video 911, where we find out during traumatic events she paints them into much more sophisticated pieces of art in her mind. I think her speaking French might be one of those instances, where she painted the trauma of being dropped by her label into a more sophisticated moment in her mind.

[@Xisters_]

Yes!!! I love you my Taylor !!! Please react to her masterpiece ARTPOP album

[@jesusaceves3893]

It's true life. She knows a few languages too. She went to a catholic school I believe and they taught languages too.

[@user_314_andmore]

love this series

[@cuatesanz5611]

The whole descontruction of the mary the night mental breakdown sounds like my last night 😂

[@carruthers97jc]

The Edge of Glory & Yoü & I were released before the Marry the Night video so assumed it would be those, esp as MTN is the perfect closer vid for the BTW era. Regardless, hope u react to this other 2 in the next vid - the Yoü & I vid is pretty cool. And then I really hope u love ARTPOP - could go one of 2 ways 😂 but it's my fave album.

[@itsmex5953]

“ *IM OFF THE DEEP END WATCH AS I DEEP DIVE IN I’ll NEVER MEET THE GROUND* “

[@poulllorca]

Lady Gaga - Queen of Leaks

[@dale8076]

Let's accept it. Born This Way album is the bible of pop.

[@10ageboy]

MARRY THE NIGHT VIDEO DESERVES WAY MORE VIEWS

[@mohdshow]

"is there a reason for switching languages" it's called art

[@ginawong2211]

This song is fire ..my fave Gaga song

[@infsai]

Yup, Lady Gaga irl got dumped by a record label which is called Def Jam. ;)

[@ladyshady383]

Please, don't forget about "The Edge Of Glory" and "You&I".

[@dwayne8273]

Aside Gaga, I just came for your brows. The rocky montage was superb xd

[@Matheusalvess10]

Please don’t forget the edge of glory and you and I of born this Way

[@EmmVillajuana]

I'm pretty sure you're not going to react to The edge of glory and u and i

[@leaksnips4u271]

Thank god I’m part of XO XOTWOD

[@Leandro-xk3co]

The rocky montage 😭😭😭

[@justinlewis4005]

10:03 Um SIR, WE DID NOT NEED TO KNOW THAT 😂✋🏾😁😐😑

[@sergiotello2003]

Don't forget You and I and Edge of glory! and the live performances are also the best :=)