At over seven minutes long, Lady Gaga's highly, highly anticipated video for her single "Born This Way" unveiled today, beats Britney Spears' "Hold It Against Me," in the pop star wars. In turns bizarre, disturbing, gross, beautiful, incredible, and staggering, the Nick Knight-directed vid starts with a Mother Monster Manifesto—an introduction from Gaga that's all about the spawning of a new race and the birth of evil on a new government run space territory. But when the music starts almost three minutes in, Gaga does what she does best, dancing wildly in a black bikini, fingering herself, and sporting her new built in body growths...before morphing into a Michael Jackson Thriller-esque skeleton (
it's all straight-up mugler's menswear 2011). We like it, we think, though she's starting to turn into an alien—which, given the subject matter, is quite appropriate. Watch for yourself and tell us what you think.
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