lady gaga

In ladys Gagas music video paparazzi she references things such as the white house at the beginning showing how rich and powerful she is in this society. As well as having her face on the American dollar and on newspapers showing she is famous. The parts were she is captured on camera can show the downside of fame as she has no privacy even in her own home. The beginning and end of the music video reference old Hollywood film with the characters introduced and the credits at the end, parts contain sub-titles which reminded me of a french film. Other intertextual references I saw were to Minnie mouse showing her vulnerability after the accident, the red lips of the rolling stones, and the back drop of the spiral which refers to vertigo by Hitchcock. As well as costumes choices which resemble the tin man from the wizard of oz and the hair styles form the Grinch.

In lady gagas and beyonces music video teleophone the first intertextual reference is to a jail, and the writing which resembles pulp fictions logo. In the video beyonces wears the same minnie mouses glasses that lady gaga did in the paparazzi video and lady gaga refernces herself in the jail mug shots at the end. The costumes of both ladys reference the amrican flad as well as beyonce resmebling a cowgirl at parts.When in the kitchen cooking lady gaga has intertextual references to cooking shows and the car is the same car from kill bill. As well as at the end it resembles a hollywood film by having the credits and the title at the beginning.

Lady gagas video paparazzi is hyper-real for the reason she uses her face on the money and that her house resembles the white house showing the audience how she is a leader of her little monsters. The video is a parody of the press by also using self reflextivity. The costume choices reflect the possiblitly of humans and metal combining showing a dystopian future. she uses minnie mouse which could show a sense of innocence in her as well as brings nostalia to people. she refernces hitcock with psychological and horro aspects, using the idea of the blond leading lady "the golden age" of hollywood, the video itself also blurs the lines between reality and fiction.

Ladys gagas music is nothing new it is the same thing as anyone else but the way she dresses is the way people recongise her and remember her for such as the meat dress 'style over substance'. throughout her videos she includes lots of different intertextual references. lady gaga also uses pastiche to homage films made by hitchocock and tarantino. Also showing there is no bad taste everything deserves an outing. lady gaga uses irony and playfulness in her videos by using self referentiality in her videos, making her and her videos postmodern.