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WATCH: Lady Gaga Hits Surprising New Low With ‘Edge Of Glory’ Video

by Justin Fenner | 10:42 am, June 17th, 2011

Where do we even start? After consistently raising the bar of artistic expression for, well, everyone, Lady Gaga has seriously disappointed us with the music video for her new song, Edge of Glory.

In the video, Gaga walks around what is clearly a set in exactly one two vintage Versace outfits (which are probably the most exciting parts of the entire video). Sometimes she sits on a stoop next to Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band, at other times she wiggles around on a fire escape that’s too wide not to violate some kind of building code. And that’s it. There are no backup dancers, no complex visual messages about death, no alien robot tentacles cleaving her in twain from within. It’s just Gaga and the music.

If the woman was a different kind of artist, that would totally be enough. But her art, such as it is, is so reliant upon all of the moving parts that she normally juggles — the shirtless gays jiving in her shadow, the layered storytelling, the ever present sexual tension between her and the camera — that without them, her message just becomes damn boring.

So why did they go with this concept? It’s been reported that originally, the video was as complicated as Alejandro and as conceptual as Judas. Director Joseph Kahn was set to direct Gaga in and out of a variety of scenarios, including a mermaid tank, a hospital and a subway station, but there were some issues on set and the concept didn’t come together. The original casting notes called for a group of hunky male “couture doctors” and a “Puerto Rican or Dominican type badass” to star in the video alongside her. But in a round of direct messages with a Gaga fan on Twitter, Chancler Haynes, an on-set editor for the video, said that at the last minute, Gaga changed her mind about the video, scrapping what must have been hundreds of thousands of dollars — not to mention countless hours — of production design in favor of five minutes of her jumping around a fake street scape. We don’t know what the other version of the video would have looked like, but a mermaid escaping from forced plastic surgery with the help of a younger Enrique Iglesias type sounds a lot more interesting to us than just watching Gaga dance around a wet street.

We don’t know what possessed Gaga to scrap all that work, but take a look at the video (and its original set design) and tell us if you can come up with anything. We’re stumped, and we want our old Gaga back.



The TRUTH Behind the Edge of Glory Video [ONTD!]
Lady GaGa “Had Issues” With New Video Director [MTV UK]
Lady Gaga Looking For A Man Like Enrique Iglesias For “The Edge Of Glory” Video [Idolator]



  • Jesuscristo

    dont put words in our mouth sir she disapointed u not us.she actually has something big planned for this video like mermaids and stuff but she scratched everything last minute the dancers the set everything.tis era is a test for her fans.those who understands her message will continue to follow her and those who decided to part ways can do so.

  • Rvmonster99

    Yeah I heard and Know, this was last minute. But i actually like it. Its a throw back. and you actually can pay attention to the lyrics. its a very good video that i can watch over and over.

  • Jesuscristo

    the video is about her hometown new york.in an apocalyptic world she refuse to leave her hometown new york at the edge with new york

  • gagaftw

    youre dumb whoever wrote that, the song is about her grandad who died, and the video obvuilsy represents her lonlieness when he died, because the scene is a lonley new york street where gaga was raised. learn your goddamn homework writer!

  • Guest

    i agree that this video is kind of a disappointment. just in the fact that it is nowhere as powerful as the song. and i find it really weird that it is just HER, and there are no back up dancers. yet at the same time, it almost works, and i DO like the lighting and the set, she just did not go far enough with it. i don’t think the leather bondage look worked. she needed to be more out there with it. just take the concept further. i am GLAD she didn’t do the whole mermaid thing. it doesn’t fit the story. it would be a huge distraction from the song.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Salvador-Suárez-Arrocena/100002346428697 Salvador Suárez Arrocena

    Probably it dissapointed you…but not to us…her little monster…well the ones that always understand the concept of her videos…cuz there little monsters that say: mm yeah I love it…but they don’t even understand what they ar seeing….It’s so simple…she’s making love to the place where she belongs: New york. She kisses the place tha saw her grow up… and of course before dying she comes back to her origins (didn’t you know she did Just dance the same date and she uses those glasses and makes a part of the Just dance original choreography???)…well….you gotta be smarter

  • http://www.dearjackie.net Baker

    I think this is the best Gaga video yet. Its totally simple 80′s tribute to Versace, city, saxaphone solo. Gaga gets so much screen time Im surprised you Gaga fans arent more excited on the fact that there arent other lesser important people junking up her airtime. Its simple. Think on Madonna’s ‘holiday’. Its back to basics bitches.

  • http://www.facebook.com/sarina.drake Sarina Michelle Drake

    I endorse all things GAGA but, this video was a slight disappointment. BUT at the same time, the actual song  seemed a little out of her element, a little katy perry-ish. not very outlandish as usual. I still love her and her work and will always support her, i just expected something a little more crazy.

  • Anonymous

    Every once in ahile people have to do something outside their usual scenarios and this was it for Lady GaGa and as someone else  commented said you can pay attention to the song this time.

  • Anonymous

    Every once in ahile people have to do something outside their usual scenarios and this was it for Lady GaGa and as someone else  commented said you can pay attention to the song this time.

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