Let’s see, we have obvious lifts from various works of Madonna (‘Like a Payer’ and ‘Vogue,’ specifically), shock-value defilement of religious symbols, men in various states of crossdress, and your typical full-of-poses dance choreography. Oh, and don’t forget a few references to Nazi Germany and the Halocaust. In short, it’s nothing we haven’t seen before, done previously and more genuinely by artists that have come before her. The video for ‘Alejandro’ seems like nothing more than Gaga attempting to demonstrate how “deep” and “important to our generation” she thinks she is.

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