Before working with Lady Gaga on the just-released "Alejandro," famed fashion photographer Steven Klein had never directed a proper music video. But after seeing Gaga perform live, he knew it was time to take the plunge.
"I went to see her show in NYC, and it felt like performance art in the '90s. And I had not seen anything like that in a while," Klein told MTV News in an e-mail. "Lady Gaga approached me about doing this particular song, and in the past, I have passed on such offers, but this time I felt [a] narrative drive you could make interesting, and we both aligned on the vision for the film."
Working closely with Gaga, the two created an eight-minute-plus, darkly surreal epic that draws equally from Madonna and Marlene Dietrich (to name just a few). Of course, given that Gaga and Klein are among the hottest names in their respective fields, getting together to plan "Alejandro" was difficult — and actually shooting it was nearly impossible.
"I had a vision and story for the film, she reacted to it, then we both collaborated ... We shot in Los Angeles on April 30, 2010," Klein wrote. "My schedule and hers are both complicated, so it took a lot to get the days that we both could work together."
Now that the "Alejandro" video has been unleashed on the world, we figured we'd ask Klein to reveal what inspired the clip ... or, at least explain what the heck it's all about.
"I was not thinking in terms of influences. I saw it more as a combination of cinema and theater," Klein wrote. "[It is] about a woman's desire to resurrect a dead love and who can not face the brutality of her present situation. The pain of living without your true love."
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Earlier today, the highly anticipated video for Lady Gaga’s latest single, “Alejandro,” premiered, much to the delight of fans from all over the world. As we were also saying, because of the images included in it, the video has great potential of causing a controversy – and it would seem that Katy Perry is leading the attack on it, as AceShowbiz can confirm.
The video features Lady Gaga surrounded only by male dancers who, in certain scenes, wear fishnet stockings and high heels. In others, Gaga is dressed in a plastic outfit that resembles a nun’s outfit, while another shot sees her swallowing a rosary, to mention just two of the things that are potentially controversial. It’s precisely this use of religious imagery that got Katy Perry all hot under the collar.
“Katy Perry is rumored to have taken aim at Lady Gaga. The ‘I Kissed a Girl’ hitmaker sparked such speculation after writing on Twitter, ‘Using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke.’ The fiancée of funnyman Russell Brand didn’t mention Gaga;s name on her post. However, people were quick to link the tweet to ‘Alejandro’ music video due to the fact that the newly-premiered clip features, among other Catholic imageries, a crucifix during a bed scene,” AceShowbiz writes.
Still, the e-zine says, if Perry is targeting Gaga, this would be a very clear case of pot calling the kettle black. “Aside from Katy Perry’s rumored jab at Lady GaGa, the two female singers actually have several things in common. [T]hey seem to have similar style when it comes to undergarments. Katy picks a pair of cannons that launch frosting to the camera for her bra in ‘California Gurls’ video, while Gaga opted for rifles to equip her own,” the report says.
Perry has remained mum on intensifying buzz that she dissed Gaga’s “Alejandro” video, as also has Gaga herself. Gossip blogger Perez Hilton, though, is convinced that the diss was real, saying on his Twitter that what is one’s blasphemy is another’s cannons shooting frosting, thus pointing out that one should never be so quick to judge others.
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