Lady Gaga’s “The Dead Dance…”
Lady Gaga has given us all of us Halloween heads a great early gift for spooky season in The Dead Dance, a masterpiece of song and dance. It ranks up there with Michael Jackson’s Thriller and Wednesday’s dance from the Netflix series Wednesday. There are some Jacksonian moves to it, yet the production, directed by Tim Burton, is unique and distinctly Lady Gaga’s.
For one thing, the video incorporates the feeling of Mexico City’s Island of the Dolls, a place where aging, discolored, rotting, and dismembered dolls are strung up in trees and around the landscape. Such dolls are rather creepy, and appear right from the beginning of Lady Gaga’s video wheas such does not appear in Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Lady Gaga’s zombified dead also seem to do a lot more twitching as they hover in that nether world between death and a recall to life…
Is there anything that Lady Gaga cannot do? She sings, dances, and writes songs, and The Dead Dance can easily be interpreted to represent recovery from romantic break-ups, depression, and other forms of mental illness and personal setbacks in life. Although its topic is dark and presented in terms of the paranormal, the video is both dazzling and yet uplifting…what a triumph! Enjoy, if this is your first viewing of the video…
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September 8, 2025 at 11:56 am
Personally, I liked her work better when she was doing vintage classics with-or-without Tony Bennett. But, whatever floats your boat…
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September 8, 2025 at 3:03 pm
She’s gone a bit to the strange side, especially in costumes and makeup, looking more otherworldly than human sometimes. She even appears in a cameo on the Netflix “Wednesday” series as “Rosaline Rotwood” (great name!), a legendary Nevermore school teacher! 🙀
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September 9, 2025 at 4:46 pm
“Nevermore,” huh? Sounds like some of the Hogwarts students, from Ravenclaw House, would be right at home, there!
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September 9, 2025 at 10:40 pm
Gomez and Morticia are both alumni of Nevermore, and the students are collectively called “Outcasts.” Wednesday’s roommate is a werewolf kind of growing into the role…
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September 10, 2025 at 4:21 pm
I just hope the two of them stay away from Halloweentown. That place is nowhere near as harmless as Debbie Reynolds first said it was!
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