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The guy that did this, Scott Land, does marionette work in southern california. My mom was friends with him when I was young and I had a VHS of a bunch of his work, including this.

He was also the lead puppeteer on Team America

I actually liked it. It's a tremendously complex video that rewards watching it several times and expending effort interpreting it. The man with the gun--did he shoot Gaga, or is planning to shoot himself? Perhaps he--Alejandro, apparently--is meant to signify a gay man trapped in a straight marriage. Note that in the bedroom, he and Gaga are both constrained by cables from the ceiling, as if they are marionette puppets. Perhaps he killed himself, and is thus the man buried by Gaga in the funeral procession.

What's the with the man wearing the Star of David with a cage around his head, and the man nearby wearing a stylized pyramid? Is Gaga just throwing a bone to the conspiracy theorists, or do they play a more significant role in the video? I am tempted to say that they do. They are presented with the lockstep march of the soldiers, offering commentary on the way they are closely regimented and controlled.

Just a few points: Every costume Gaga wears appears to symbolize some means of control or liberation. Nazi Dictator Gaga, as I have dubbed her, in the black outfit with the goggles, is a symbol of externalized, nefarious control. Cabaret Gaga, in the underwear, seems to represent purely carnal sexual liberation--just plain sex--which is outside her system of control, but does not seem to seriously subvert it. Machine Gun Madonna Gaga might is a woman who--like Dictator Gaga--has seized masculine, phallic power to herself, but in a rather dangerous way. Following the appearance of the M-16 bra, we see that the soldiers are led to violence and domination. Red Latex Nun Gaga symbolizes is like Dictator Gaga in that she represents control--but passive, internalized control, rather than external control--but is nonetheless just as controlling; she has, by accepting the system of control into herself, enslaved a man into a desperate, entirely inappropriate heterosexual marriage. The flip side is Anti-Christ Gaga, who, like Cabaret Gaga, symbolizes sexual liberation from control--but in a spiritualized, highly subversive form--though the flash of an appearance of Dictator Gaga may indicate that this, too, is part of the machinations of the system of control.

There's plenty more one can say. A number of narrative threads, occurring simultaneously, can be teased out of the video.

Also, lots of man-candy. Yay!

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Thanks for your promote.

In reply to this comment by Deano:
*promote

It's been seven years now, living in this box
Closed in on all sides, no light, just dark
He kept me under the bed, I'd pray for it to stop
He'd lock me safely away, and lie on top
Pop the latches open the hatches
Out comes Jack in the box
Doing tricks and taking licks
Out comes Jack in the box
I was an uncut marionette hanging by steel cable threads
I was a shadow dancer a thousand shades of red
There's too much light it's far too bright
I see things much too clearly
There's too much light, it's far too bright
Weary, oh so weary
If this is all of life outside
Please put me where I am happy
Where I won't know what to think of this
Black in black, almost sleeping
Pop the latches open the hatches, out comes jack in the box
Doing tricks and taking licks, out comes jack in the box
Please lock me up
Shut me up
Shut up your jack in the box

Team America opened doors for marionettes everywhere.

Scars are bad-ass, though.

>> ^mmve:
I've been scarred for life.

>> ^mauz15:
Someone explain to me how can the 45 people who upvoted can see the bullshit but there are other people who actually think this is a defense for Mccain and a loss for Biden?


Brb...."Mom, dad, meet mauz15. He/she has a quick question for you two wild & crazy kids".

Sadly, I avoid any and all topics having to do with politics and religion considering my past failed attempts to bring about the tiniest fraction of cognitive dissonance in them; lest I hear my own parents channeling Sean Hannity nearly-verbatim, like marionettes that make noise when you pull their string.

mccain is a marionette

It's been seven years now, living in this box
Closed in on all sides, no light, just dark
He kept me under the bed, I'd pray for it to stop
He'd lock me safely away, and lie on top
Pop the latches open the hatches
Out comes Jack in the box
Doing tricks and taking licks
Out comes Jack in the box
I was an uncut marionette hanging by steel cable threads
I was a shadow dancer a thousand shades of red
There's too much light it's far too bright
I see things much too clearly
There's too much light, it's far too bright
Weary, oh so weary
If this is all of life outside
Please put me where I am happy
Where I won't know what to think of this
Black in black, almost sleeping
Pop the latches open the hatches, out comes jack in the box
Doing tricks and taking licks, out comes jack in the box
Please lock me up
Shut me up
Shut up your jack in the box

Yeah, that was a really good performance. I can see why that's a top vid.

Scary message, though. Apparently jesus is the only solution to problems and all is well provided you only do as you're told. The marionette thing at the beginning was chilling - not sure how you can interpret that in a good way but I'm sure a lot of people do.

Finally! Proof that there is a god. At :24, you can actually see him working the marionette strings.

Upvote for microhouse and marionettes together. Upvote more for circus dancing.

Hey white folks...what about the California raisin commercials??? I dinna hear a buncha crackers whining and complaining when they turned Mike Jackson, Ray Charles into little black, shriveled up raisins.....y'all thot that shit was cute.....like Paul Mooney said, " I bet if got me some marshmallows, and put some arms and legs on them fukkin' marshmallows, and made em sing, "Surfin' USA" you wouldn't think that shit was so, goddamn cute!!

Ohhhh it's terrible that curious George is being used as a stereotypical caricature for a black dude by some white redneck dude.....If it'd been a brother made the shit, some might just be chuckling...

Bad part is, is that whitey fucked up, showed his ass in a big way, and has to take some guff from reactionaries...good news????-He is selling the fuck outta tasteless t-shirts for some scratch....

My Obama shirt would have him marionette-style, strings visible, with a "WHITE" hand on the manipulator's cross, belonging to the real enemies of mankind, who use race a fucking diversion-pick one
Under his podium would be his robe, opened a bit to see the starving children alla Dicken's "Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come" depicting the people of America two years into his fucking term, their needy hands barely able to reach for what they were told they would get, and have been groomed to expect....

Fuck Obama.