Analysis of a Music Video - Bad Romance by Lady Gaga // Dance-Pop

The first scene is a group of people in a room. The women are all in gold and the men in black/shirtless. Gaga sits in the middle on a white throne in gold - this draws your eye to her. She has sunglasses on with razorblades around them - perhaps showing whatever she is seeing is painful. She then presses play on on a box, this is also product placement through the use of parrot box and the next shot has an iPod classic in it. Another product placement appears - clear glasses of "Nermioff' which appear later in the video.
The next scene shows pods, with the one in the middle saying monster with a red cross on. They then begin to crawl out of the pods as if they are newborn, and they wear white latex suits which cover them head to toe, showing the innocence of them. Lady gaga's suit has an open mouth, whereas the rest all have their mouths covered but can see.
This ties in with the next scene where she's in a bath tub,wearing earphones with huge,innocent eyes. This could be because hers were covered so she doesn't know what the world is. The earphones is product placement as lady gaga has her own brand of earphones.
The next shot is of her standing in the mirror, but it could be a flashback as she is dressed in black with her eyes covered.
One of the shots is gaga making a gun motion with her finger, maybe showing that she is too innocent to shoot it at this moment in time. The bath scene then switch to women pulling her out of the bath and her fighting it and then placing her on the side of the bath.
A quick shot of a close of lady gaga wearing very little makeup is used, again to show her innocence right now.
The women rip off lady gaga's shirt, perhaps showing that they have the power and that women in the media constantly degrade each other. Then make her drink something, which could be the alcohol from the start, and she fights it. Another of the close up scenes is used but shes in tears this time, showing that the innocence is broken and she knows the real world.
The next scene shows a ring of women trying to tear a coat of lady gaga. The coat has words on it, maybe showing what she thinks in her head. They rip it off and she acts as if she's naked and not in clothes, but her clothes are very sexualised and all diamond. The shot pulls back to show a ring of men, drinking. She then joins in on the dancing almost as if she releales if shes goes along with she can escape.
Another scene is shown where shes in a very dark room compared to the other room, and shes on her own as if this is where she goes when shes not paraded in front of the men.
The next bit in the white room is sit crawls along the floor and sits on a mans lap, relating to the next scene where men are bidding for her. Its like shes figured out if she goes with him she can get away from the women. The women can also represent other women in music or the media and how they sexualise everything.
The next scene is she is all in black and posing in the middle of a group of men, with another scene that joins it of her spinning in a wheel. She is wearing the same outfit in both of these, but in the wheel she is dressed slightly more futuristically.
She also is then in the dark with a strange outfit on, and at the end of this scene she fires the guns, showing that she has the power but has been making the power on her own.
It then changes to a scene of her walking towards the man that bought her, she has sunglasses on so that he can't see her eyes or intentions. A dance scene begins too, wear she is back in the white room but it is dark and she is dressed in a red outfit, showing that she has no innnocence but she has power. The crying scene appears too, showing that she maybe regrets what shes about to do but it had to happen for her to escape. The bed sets on fire and the guy is trapped in the flames, and the vevry last scene shows his skeleton and gaga on the bed, with her in the black outfit with smoke, and a cigarette hanging out of mouth.