Gaga dances, fights, and runs from monstrous versions of herself in the video for her maximalist pop track
Lady Gaga paired her dark electro-pop track “Disease” with an equally menacing music video on Tuesday night.
The four-and-a-half-minute visual sees Gaga confront macabre versions of herself, including an all leather Gaga complete with bloodshot eyes, towering heels, a zippered mask, and long steel-studded finger nails. Throughout the chaotic video, which takes place in a quiet suburban neighborhood, the star fends off, fights, embraces, and runs away from her personified fears.
Gaga shed insight into her thought-process behind the video on Instagram stories earlier on Tuesday. “I think a lot about the relationship I have with my own inner demons,” she wrote. “It’s never been easy for me to face how I get seduced by chaos and turmoil….