Watch Lady Gaga channel an arthouse oddity in her new “911” video

September 18, 2020
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In a year of ill-timing, there have been few pop contretemps as jarring as the release of Lady Gaga’s sixth studio LP Chromatica, which was postponed due to the pandemic and eventually dropped on May 29th during the height of civil unrest following the murder of George Floyd. Since its release, Gaga has kept uncharacteristically quiet, saving her first live performance of the new material for the VMAs a few weeks back. Today, she’s following it up with a video for the album’s third single, the antipsychotic Eurodisco

Directed by Tarsem Singh, the video offers a pop twist on Sergei Parajanov’s 1969 arthouse film The Color Of Pomegranates. It’s one of Singh’s first music videos since helming the clips for R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” and En Vogue’s “Hold On” back in the nineties. Check it out above, and read Gaga’s statement on the video below.

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This short film is very personal to me, my experience with mental health and the way reality and dreams can interconnect to form heroes within us and all around us. I’d like to thank my director/filmmaker Tarsem for sharing a 25 year old idea he had with me because my life story spoke so much to him. I’d like to thank Haus of Gaga for being strong for me when I wasn’t, and the crew for making this short film safely during this pandemic without anyone getting sick. It’s been years since I felt so alive in my creativity to make together what we did with “911”. Thank you @Bloodpop for taking a leap of faith with me to produce a record that hides in nothing but the truth. Finally, thank you little monsters. I’m awake now, I can see you, I can feel you, thank you for believing in me when I was very afraid. Something that was once my real life everyday is now a film, a true story that is now the past and not the present. It’s the poetry of pain.

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