G.U.Y.

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.

I think this song is talking about a strong woman not being intimidated by a man that takes the "active" position. She's in and feels in control, even if the man is on top of her.

Not only do I think this song is about the obvious, her being just as strong as the man in the relationship and all, I also think this is some great commentary and gender and patriarchal culture. If you watch her video, you can see famous figures such as Michael Jackson, Ghandi, Jesus. She wants to be just as famous and important as these influential men were. In another scene in the video you can see them taking blood from these people and injecting them into Gaga. This is great social commentary in my opinion. Her songs and videos definitely have more layers and meaning than most think.

My interpretation of this song is that she's saying how she knows the guy she's with doesn't want her for her body and sex, he appreciates her for who she is and respects her. For example: I don’t need to be on top To know what it does, I'm strong enough to know the truth.

I think this song is about her experimenting with women, and the sexual identity she has created with another woman (or women). Society always puts constraints into lesbian sex, as to who is the guy, and who is the girl. I think by saying she wants to be your G.U.Y. (girl under you) she is playing with the idea of being the submissive one (girl), but still being dominant enough (she's strong enough to know the truth) to be a "guy".

That has been my take on the song since the first time I heard it, and based off Venus, and other songs on this album, I'd say the interpretation is at least somewhat close to her intention. It's definitely a sexual song, no doubt about that! Also one of my favorites on the album.

It's "Greetings from Eros".

To me, the song refers to her wanting to take on the role of Eros at first--who has been interpreted as a bisexual god, not simply one-side-or-the-other--Gaga wants to shed wooden ideas and embrace her 'self' that isn't represented. I'll start off at this point because it sets the tone for the rest of the meaning to me. "I wanna be that guy." "Gee; you--why?" The comment she receives from Gaga's partner completely disregards her. The girl doesn't believe in transgender people, in transformation, is just closed-minded/superficial about it. Likely a surprise for Gaga, it shows the partner having some level of understanding, but not being willing to accept Gaga fully for the person she is. The partner plays along with what Gaga's shared, and allows Gaga to treat her as a man would, though she's still superficially oriented toward Gaga/is into experimenting, etc. Gaga still feels masculine, still thinks masculine. Maybe it was a role she played once, but Eros is seeping/seeped into her. "I’m in charge like a G.U.Y; I'll lay down face up this time, under you like a G.U.Y." The problem is, her partner's words are stuck in her head. "Gee, you--why?" and Gaga can't shake this. Attacked from the same side, Gaga realizes she's stuck in her form; her role. But subconsciously she resists, or the masculine feelings permeate through still. "I'm gonna wear the towel; the power to leave you" comes out of wanting to resist her partner who doesn't accept or understand fully. Gaga wants to do what she's wanted to but has been unable to do--maybe even what guys have done to her in the past--but because she's trapped, she realizes she wants to leave her partner, 'like a G.U.Y.' would do. She's caught between loving women and wanting them to treat her like a man in ways, but can't progress any further because she is a woman and her partners whom she looks to for understanding instead fail her. So she inadvertently understands the underhanded, lower-form of male; just as broken as the men she pushes away from. "I wanna be that guy (G.U.Y.) I'll wreck you right up guy (G.U.Y.)"

If this isn't the way she intended it, it's the meaning that comes across for me. The tragedy of being transgender. Not a Tomboy--a girl who likes guys and hangs out with them, etc--but the girl who was born a girl yet feels they should have been made male, who pushes down her true feelings and ideas because she believes transformation isn't possible for her.

Did nobody realize about the gay roles references in the song? Really? I mean, look at the bridge, it's like if she's saying that she doesn't need to be the top on the lesbian relation to feel potent. It's a "third wave feminism" that talks about how a woman can be the bottom in both straight and gay relationship but she still knows that she worth it. Just because you're the submissive one doesn't mean you don't deserve some respect. Also, she renew the meaning of "guy", putting it aside as a synom of "boy" and taking it as the girl who is worth it. Greetings from a bottom. X

Being in love with a transgender woman has changed my entire view of this song.

I couldn't have met a more perfect person inside and out...I truly believe it was fate. I wish we had met when we were younger so we wouldn't have had to go through so much pain and doubt and self-hate to get to this point.

Though our struggles are obviously different...we understand each other on a real level, one I've never experienced with anybody else...she met me while I was in at the end of my rope with my eating disorder and broken self-image. I hated myself. I looked in the mirror and saw a different person than who I was inside. I couldn't reach her anymore. Since I was 13 I had felt that invasive, constant sense of wrongness.

That's where we connected.

We've gone through nights when one or both of us couldn't bear to be touched. The total vulnerability scared the fuck out of me. To have someone who wanted to be close and who knew the true me yet understood when even that wasn't enough to break down the barrier and let myself go...that she knew how it felt...and was willing to hold me anyway through the anxiety. Who didn't get angry when I wasn't "present" in the moment and had to put on the brakes.

We've been through mornings where one or both of us couldn't leave the house without changing outfits ten times and spinning the mirror more than that. Some are worse than others...sometimes I'm at a loss as to how to help her, or vice versa...sometimes all you can do is be there...

When we look into each others' eyes at night it seems to fall away for a second and I'd give anything, suffer everything, just to have those moments forever.

We'll be getting married this year. I couldn't imagine being with anybody else. I'm still shocked every other day that we have each other and met so suddenly...(we met online, when I had, by pure chance and boredom, checked my messages on a dating site I hadn't been on in two years!). Like the stars were aligned. We tell people we met at Kmart or prison lmao.

Anyways...the meaning is clear to me now. Even if it means something different for Gaga or for others, it'll always be my song to her. When she can't get through another moment feeling wrong, when she asks why she can't simply be normal, why she was born with the wrong DNA, the wrong chromosomes, with her brain and her body not matching like they were supposed to...when she asks if I see her as a girl, if she's pretty, if I'll ever get sick of her and want a "real" woman...I listen to this song and want her to know she's ok. She's my girl and I'm her G.U.Y. lol...even though I'm a girl too, I often feel like the "man" in the relationship and I wouldn't want it any other way. I want to protect her the way she protects me from my own mind and my own body dysphoria.

Our struggles manifest in different ways but our souls are cut from the same cloth. We were dealt shitty cards. But we'll continue playing the game til we come out on top.

Preferably with me on top of her ;)

Thanks for reading.

The lyric is "Please retweet".

I think this song is about how she wants to run the relationship. She is tired of getting hurt and played with by this man. She wants to turn the tables on him so he can be the girl and get hurt. Its kind of like that ciara song about being the boy but its lady gaga version lol