I just came out of a film studies class, so the entire time I was watching the video (which, to be honest, took me a few tries) I kept trying to analyze it from a film studies perspective, like, appropriation of the male gaze and all that. Gaga's videos are always strange, but this was the first one to make me feel especially nervous.

One of my friends watched it and her first reaction was, "It's Evita on drugs." Which, strangely, doesn't not make sense.