VIDEO | Lady Gaga's Born This Way
The Grammy-winning starlet was never one to shy away from excess, and Lady Gaga's latest video will not disappoint fans hungry for more of her risque, flamboyant antics.
In scenes that resemble something out of Forbidden Planet or the Aliens films (though given a decidedly camp varnish) Lady Gaga's promotional video to the already-successful single Born This Way starts off with a 'manifesto' for Mother Monster - presumably Gaga's intergalactic alter ego-cum-camp-Goddess.
The opening delivers the usual high-concept imagery we've come to expect from the stratospherically popular starlet, with mirror-effects depicting Mother Monster's narcissistic birth. But perhaps what's actually unique this time around is that there's a large chunk of words preceding the action: Gaga narrates her character's birth in biblical overtones, using words like 'mitosis' to describe the process...