i had never even heard of lady gaga until a car trip this weekend.
i was blissfully ignorant of her existence.
i wish things had remained that way.
the wikimasters have provided us with so much here that i don't even know where to begin.
this is why i started the blog.
Music video
The music video for "Poker Face" was directed by Ray Kay and was aided by Anthony Mandler.[57] Premiering on October 22, 2008, The video is set by a pool, as well as in a mansion. The video begins with Lady Gaga emerging out of the pool wearing a shiny masquerade mask and a black full body leotard, with two Great Danes beside her. She throws the mask aside and the song begins with a facial shot of Gaga singing it.[57] Gaga wears a metallic sticker on her left cheek in this shot. Featured in the video are scenes of Gaga in a mansion and dancing poolside with her dancers in a turquoise leotard.[57] Gaga attends a wild party where every man and woman tries their luck on a stripped poker game. The party gets wilder when all the party's guests strip down to their underwear, dance around, and share kisses with each other. The video also features two harlequin Great Danes and several white mannequins on her swimming pool deck who are supposedly playing her servants. During the musical interlude before the "I won't tell you that I love you" hook, Gaga is shown in her trademark "Pop Music Will Never Be Low Brow" sunglasses while sitting beside the pool. The video ends with the head shot of Gaga singing the Mum-mum-mum-ma hook.
Gaga explained in the nineteenth episode of her "Transmision Gagavision" series, the main idea behind the music video of "Poker Face". She said that "I knew I wanted it to be sexy, so I thought no pants, because that's sexy, [...]And I knew I wanted it to be futuristic, so I thought shoulder pads, because that's my thing."[58] The music video premiered on MTV UK on February 17, 2009. In some versions of the song, the words "muffin" (being a slang term for the woman's vagina), "Russian Roulette," and "gun" are censored out (bleeped) by the mum-mum-mum-ma hook.[59]
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This video has 16,652 comments. I only got through a few hundred (all from the first couple of days...). Some omitted comments come from rapists, racists, xenophobes (commenter arguing against the racist), sexists, foot fetishists and more...
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"no offense or anythign and im not dissin or anything but she reminds me of sum d&d geek who grew up to be a singer. lol
shes pretty tho"
-WishingXBelowXDreams
"so what is a Poker face anyway? Like a trickery or a polka dot face?"
-blueuro83
"Like in the card game of poker, you have to have a serious face, so you don't give away your emotions, which can hint at your cards. That's a poker face."
-allstarcheerx
"Oh, ok... I was thinking of a Joker... I am sorry, I don't play card games so I am clueless... Thanks."
-blueuro83
"This video is in fact horrible, but the song is amazing. I wish they had a better director or something because this is a waste of MTV."
-raclip02
"i wonder what thoes comments at the bottom were that was so bad to be removed by the author. (.)_(.)"
-EliteCitrus
"especially because the author is universal music group. they must have been so bad that they had to go out of there way from there jobs to remove a comment. im wondering what they were too."
-steveoyruhere08
"they deleted my comment saying that her in her videos they have some sexual parts in them like in this one where they r all on the couch everyone is all over eachother lol"
-rockindiva82
"Does anyone know what's her hairstyle is called?"
-coolchix18
"its called a wig -- its super plastic -- you can't get real hair like that so don't annoy your hairdresser too much. you can get your hair straightened and straight bangs and thats the best you can do -- it still won't look that thick and straight though. you can get the chunky/piecey ends by putting some pomade in the ends. cher has the same wig in black since the 70s. lady gaga gets points for the fake hair bow though -- nothing like making a look your own."
-gisforgary
"is ti just me or is lady gaga the most selfconscious insecure celeb around?"
-Blobadelics
"How can she be self conscious and insecure? She obviously thinks she's pretty hot LOL"
-violetvelvet
"dresses in horrible clothing do draw attention away from her face? shes always got shit on her face, shes always doing shit with her hands on her face, seems insecure to me"
-Blobadelics
"What an intruiging psychological study. Do tell more lol."
-andrewtierneyoflenno
"not a study, just an observation, if u have a different opinion id love to hear why"
-Blobadelics
"Bad fashion has nothing to do with insecurity. She motions to her face because guess what, the song is about her face. Don't feign knowledge of psychoanalysis. lol"
-runyoko
"ur an idiot, i listed awhole lot of reasons why i think shes insecure not just bad fashion. and no shes not doing shit with her hands on her face cuz of the songs message... she does it in just dance too.. aswell as everything else i said on this video, so fuck up"
-Blobadelics
"Blob, no need to get emotional. All I said was that you don't sound as smart as you think with your "psychoanalytical" ways."
-runyoko
"lol i guess its just ur coping mechanism distorting reality twice in a row now thats not likely coincidence, i think u need therapy"
-Blobadelics