| Lady GaGa – Swine Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Honestly, this song seems to be about an uncomfortable sexual experience – most likely rape. Given Gaga’s speech at the iTunes Festival AND her interview on the Ellen Show a few days after, that seems to be the most likely subject being addressed in the lyrics. (It’s interesting to note that the song “Monster” from The Fame Monster also seems to be about rape, and The Prelude Pathetique segment at the beginning of the Marry The Night music video is often thought by fans to be about rape, unwanted pregnancy, and an abortion). "Heard you, don’t speak, don’t wanna hear another" Probably “I know you want it” talk. "I know, I know, I know I know you want me You’re just a pig inside a human body Squealer, squealer, you’re so disgusting" Gaga is remembering the disgusting man who violated her and compares him to a pig. "Baby, I should have a little more just to stay out of my mind" She has to drink to forget about it. "Slap it, skinny. Would love to watch your ass go wiggle" (these are the actual lyrics) She wants revenge on her rapist. If you have any doubt of the validity of this interpretation, look up on YouTube the short speech she did before performing this song at the iTunes Festival, and also her interview on Ellen at the end of 2013 (it's the interview where she's wearing a pink dress). |
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| Lady GaGa – G.U.Y. Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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It's about gender roles. Gaga is the girl and would therefore be seen as submissive/weaker during sex, but instead she is claiming the male identity in the bedroom. "I'm gonna wear the tie, I want the power to leave you." Clearly, she is the dominant one. On the other hand, her boyfriend would traditionally be viewed as the one calling the shots, being on top, more sexually aggressive, etc. However, Gaga refers to him in the song as a "G.I.R.L. = guy in romantic love" while she is the "G.U.Y. = girl under you." Additionally, because this is a song on ARTPOP (which is all about marrying art with pop culture), Gaga blends her art with social media by mixing her love life with her public life during the chorus: “Touch me, touch me, don't be sweet" (art, if she's role playing as Venus, Eros, or Himeros) “Love me, love me, please retweet” (pop culture, as she directly references twitter) So yeah, it's mainly about breaking free from gender roles but it still carries over the idea of combining art and pop that is present throughout the entire album. |
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| Lady GaGa – ARTPOP Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Amazing song. Gaga's songwriting abilities at their finest! In the first verse, art is singing to pop (“Come to me, with all your glamour and cruelty / Just do the thing that you do, and I’ll undress you” – referring to the sexual nature of pop stars and pop music today). In the second verse, pop is singing to art (“Come to me, with all your subtext and fantasy / Just do the thing that you do, in a perverse hue” – making note of how contemporary art is widely misunderstood and even seen as “perverse” or stupid even though it's just the creator's "fantasy"). In the chorus, art and pop tell each other that they can belong together as one entity without separation or distinction. In other words, ARTPOP (one word). Not Art Pop, ArtPop, or Art-Pop. The placement of the song is also noteworthy - since it is the title track, it would make sense if it was the first song on the album, or even the last. However, it’s precisely in the middle. I believe this is because the song is supposed to serve as a reminder that, like the chorus says over and over again, Gaga’s ARTPOP “could mean anything!” Placing this song right after songs like Aura, G.U.Y., Do What U Want, MANiCURE, but also before songs like Swine, Mary Jane Holland, and Applause is supposed to make you aware that each of these songs has at least TWO meanings. (Ex: Swine could be about dancing or it could be about rape, Do What U Want could be taken as a sexual love song or as an intelligently-written criticism on music critics, G.U.Y. could either be about Greek mythology or about gender roles in 21st century America, MANiCURE could be about a manicure or about being man-cured after a bad relationship). After all, “my ARTPOP could mean anything.” |
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| Lady GaGa – Aura Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This song is essentially about the distinction between Lady Gaga (the character) vs. Stefani Germanotta (the REAL her) and its importance to Gaga’s relationship with her fans and critics. In pretty much of all of the interviews that Lady Gaga did about ARTPOP before its worldwide release, she kept saying that the order of the songs on this record was extremely crucial in order to shape the conceptual meaning of the album’s journey, moreso than it has ever been in the past on her other albums. The meaning of this song in particular shows why this is was so significant. VERSE 1 ANALYSIS: Aura, which is track 01 on ARTPOP, begins with the lyric “I killed my former.” Gaga is telling us right away that the Lady Gaga we heard on Born This Way is dead. This is going to be a brand new Gaga who we’re going to be exposed to here on ARTPOP. (Interestingly enough, Gaga had been dressing up as the Roman goddess of love Venus ever since the ARTPOP promotional performances started in the summer of 2013, and the second song on the track list is, yup, Venus. So, Aura is literally the DEATH of Gaga’s “former” while Venus is, as Botticelli’s painting states, the BIRTH of Venus - a.k.a. the birth of the new Gaga). The line “I’m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice” is Gaga dismissing the rumors that she has been manufactured by the music industry. Gaga is saying that she isn’t a “slave” of Interscope Records and that the eccentricity that has given her so much notoriety over the years hasn’t been forced onto her as a marketing ploy to sell more singles, but rather, she is “a woman of choice.” In other words, her craziness and weirdness are her choice. She is her own creation. She does it for its artistic implication, as it’s later discussed on other songs off of the CD. “My veil is protection for the gorgeousness of my face” is probably addressing everyone who says that there is no need for Lady Gaga’s outrageous and over-the-top outfits and masks. Gaga would beg to differ. Her “veil” (masks, make-up, costumes, wigs, etc.) only protect the real her because she has found a certain comfort zone and safety in these theatrical costumes. “You ought to pity me cause there’s always someone to love” means that you should feel sorry for her because she’s always getting hit on by men who view her exclusively as a sexual object and not as an artist. You know the ones. Those people who only go to her shows to see her in sexy and risqué outfits, and NOT to hear the music. “But in the bedroom, the size of him’s more than enough” – but if men are going to objectify her, she’s going to objectify men. CHORUS ANALYSIS: The chorus, despite being provocative and perhaps even considered raunchy or inappropriate by some, is actually pretty brilliant. When Gaga sings “Do you wanna see me naked, lover?” she is essentially asking: Do you wanna see the human being underneath the wigs and the costumes and the make-up? (“naked” = her natural look). Furthermore, “Do you wanna see the girl who lives behind the aura?” can be translated to “Do you wanna see the Stefani Germanotta who lives underneath the Lady Gaga illusion?” VERSE 2 ANALYSIS: “Enigma pop star is fun, she wear burqa for fashion” – This mysterious entertainer known as Lady Gaga is only trying to make you have a good time. Also, she LOVES fashion! “It’s not a statement as much as just a move of passion” – Not every single thing that she does has to be filled with metaphors and symbolism. Sometimes, she’s just passionate about an idea or an outfit without necessarily trying to make some sort of statement with it. “I may not walk on your street or shoot a gun on your soil… I hear you screaming, is it because of pleasure or toil?” – Pretty self-explanatory. A commentary about women who wear burqas and the discrimination they face in America. Is Gaga comparing herself to these women? Much like how they are viewed as a threat by ignorant people who believe all Muslims to be terrorists, many hardcore religious fanatics believe Gaga to be a Devil-worshipper and therefore a threat (since she’s a strong advocate of LGBT rights). But much like the burqa-wearers, Gaga isn’t shooting a gun on a soil so stop thinking that she’s dangerous. “I hear you screaming, is it because of pleasure or toil?” is an interesting line because it plays with the idea that some people secretly love Gaga (“screaming of pleasure”) even though they love to complain about her so much (“screaming of toil”). BRIDGE: “Dance, sex, art, pop, tech” – These five words, which are sung robotically during the bridge of the song, are references to the topics and themes that are going to be explored on the album within the following 14 songs. If ARTPOP was an essay, these lyrics are the thesis statement and songs #2-15 on the CD are the body paragraphs. Indeed, the rest of the album feature dance-pop songs – some with suggestive, sexual lyrics – that make references to pop culture as well as Renaissance art. And as far as the “tech” part goes, there are many aspects of ARTPOP outside of the actual songs that encompass a lot of technology – namely the ARTPOP app for Smart Phones, Gaga’s Flying Dress which she premiered at the artRAVE, the bubble-making dress that she had TechHaus build for her (yes, it’s actually a dress that makes bubbles), and her trip to outer space in 2014. Additionally, this song was used in the movie Machete Kills, in which Gaga played a minor role. The song fits her characters perfectly, as Gaga probably wrote Aura with the movie in mind. In the film, Gaga plays one of the faces that the shape-shifting character El Chamaleon morphs into. Because this song talks about wanting to see her real person underneath their character (underneath the “aura”), the song works for the movie too. |
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| Lady GaGa – Black Jesus + Amen Fashion Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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All these Illuminati comments are ridiculous. I can't tell if those people are genuinely serious or just trolling. Anyways, this actually a very intelligent and well-written song. As Gaga has stated in multiple interviews, the song is about being open minded to different ways of thinking and being accepting of other religions. Understanding that others may view Jesus as Black even though you yourself may not. Basically, like I said above, it's about being open to new ways of thinking. New ways of looking at things. Most songs on Born This Way are about some sort of equality: Americano is about Latino equality in the US, Scheisse is about women's rights, both Born This Way and Highway Unicorn are about equality in general, etc. Following that pattern, Black Jesus seems to be about religious freedom/religious equality as well. Once again, the idea of understanding that different people have different religious beliefs. Because this is a Lady Gaga song, she likes to incorporate fashion imagery to her songs (ex: Bad Romance is not a song about fashion, yet there is the famous line towards the end "Walk, walk, fashion baby, work it". Lady Gaga just really likes fashion). She is using the idea of a fashion show ("On the runway, dressed in his best... On the runway, work it, Black Jesus...") to metaphorically say that Jesus Christ is modeling, not clothing, but his religion. Jesus is on the runway "modeling" his teachings the way a model models her clothes. The whole point of beginning the song with "I grew up in New York City [...] moved downtown when I was just nineteen..." is to state that she was introduced to this new way of thinking when she moved downtown. That part is obviously true and biographical. The whole song is about having a new way of thinking and being open minded and she is just saying that she became open minded when she moved downtown. "Dancing is my revelation, underground pop civilization" simply means that dancing was how she expressed her individuality in an "underground" pop scene ("underground" meaning that pop music wasn't very popular there so it was underground, yet she liked to dance to pop songs. This was her revelation. It was how she revealed to others who she really was. She was Lady Gaga and she liked pop music and dancing to it, even if everybody else didn't). "Concrete poetry to feed my mind" is obvious. It means she enjoys reading poetry. She's always said she's a huge fan of Syvia Plath's poetry as well as Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry. She even has a line from one of Rainer Maria Rilke's poems tattooed on her inner left arm (that huge text tattoo with German writing she has). Basically, think of it like this: she's the weird kid in the neighborhood who listens to pop music and reads poetry and is open minded while everyone else is listening to hip hop, don't care about poetry and classical literature, and probably are close-minded.. "Old symbolism was left behind" means that this generation will leave behind old-fashioned ideas. For example, homosexuality being a sin and gay marriage being morally incorrect is, according to this song, a concept that is going to be left behind. Additionally, the idea of the cross being a symbol for Jesus Christ might also be left behind. (But you could probably argue that this wasn't what she was going for when she wrote the song). Gaga herself has used the cross in her work (like second album, The Fame Monster) and has used it as a symbol for R.I.P. tombstones and death. NOT as a symbol for Jesus. So the old symbolism (cross = Jesus) is being left behind as more and more people are giving the cross other things it could mean other than just Jesus. Just like a snake can be a symbol for evil and temptation, it can also be a symbol for medicine. The color red can be a symbol for love and passion, or can be a symbol for sin. Old symbols are being left behind, and new ones are being used. Gaga herself left behind the traditional symbolism of horns to mean something of demonic nature and has replaced it to mean "you're beautiful no matter how you look. you're beautiful even if you have ugly horns on your face". (Seriously, that was the whole point behind the horns in the Born This Way music video). Old symbolism was left behind. Lastly, being a Christian herself, Gaga is saying that Jesus is "the new black." Jesus goes with everything (as another commentator said). She is pretty much saying that Jesus is cool. Jesus is dope. Jesus got swag. Jesus is tight. Jesus is all right in my book. She's trying to make Christianity appear cool and not a big deal if someone is Christian (the same way she has made being weird or being gay not a big deal and, in many ways, cool). She is probably doing this because Christianity has a really bad reputation nowadays. If you identify as Christian, most people will assume you're old fashioned and homophobic and that you're not okay with contraception and abortions, even if you're actually fine with all that and you accept gays. Gaga is just saying that if you believe in Christianity, that's cool. If you don't, that's cool too. But Christianity is cool (according to Gaga) so don't hate on them Christians. Pretty nice song. Has NOTHING to do with the Illuminati. |
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