Nonetheless, his eccentric readings have attracted a large and passionate following: several posts have received more than 1,000 comments. The ostensibly meaningless "Bum bum be-dum" refrain in Rihanna's Disturbia, for example, is decoded as: "You good-for-nothing, idiotic person, let yourself become dumb, stop thinking and let yourself be hypnotised and possessed." It's something of a stretch. And a lot of pop stars really do pretend to be robots."īut the Vigilant Citizen can't encounter a predictable pop trope without interpreting it as part of an occult music-industry plot to brainwash the masses. Scrolling down his densely illustrated posts, you may find yourself thinking, "Say, Lady Gaga really does very often cover up one eye. His examinations are certainly exhaustive. To those who don't study occult symbolism, he concedes, it might all seem "totally far-fetched and ridiculous", but for those in the know "I was simply stating the obvious". He does not write like a swivel-eyed loon rambling about Obamunism (although, inevitably, there's an unsavoury fascination with Jewish influence). What's surprising is the methodical, matter-of-fact, occasionally humorous tone of his essays. Thus Pink's MTV awards performance mimics a Masonic initiation Jay-Z's Run This Town trumpets the coming of the New World Order (NWO) and the video for Black Eyed Peas' Imma Be Rocking That Body advances "the transhumanist and police state agenda". All of these interests converge in his insanely detailed analyses of the symbolism of pop videos and lyrics. He has spent five years researching "Theosophy, Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, the Bavarian Illuminati and Western Occultism". On his website,, he describes himself as a graduate in communications and politics and a producer for "some fairly well-known 'urban' artists". The Vigilant Citizen has a good claim to be the world's most distinctive music critic. In Alejandro, she "flashes in her fans' faces the symbols of their own oppression". Bad Romance apparently "offers a chilling description of a music industry ruled by the elite". This anonymous Canadian blogger explained last year's Paparazzi video with reference to the CIA's MK-ULTRA mind-control programme, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, the Eye of Horus and the goat-god Baphomet, concluding that Gaga was indubitably an "Illuminati puppet". While “Alejandro” seems both politically and religiously charged, Klein insists “the politics came out of the story, but was not the official intention.” Madonna’s visual oeuvre seems like the obvious reference point for “Alejandro,” with its not-so-subtle hints of “Like a Prayer” and “Vogue,” but Klein admits that painters, more than any musicians or film directors, influenced the design and spirit of the video.Y ou might think that by know you've read more than enough online exegesis of Lady Gaga's videos but you haven't even scratched the surface until you've read the work of The Vigilant Citizen. “We had planned so much and achieved much of that, but of course some of it we were not able due to time constraints.” “On a music video there is never enough time,” says Klein, who, besides directing tour videos for Madonna, hadn’t tackled an MTV-style project. Like “Bad Romance” before it, the ending of “Alejandro” shows Gaga laying in bed before it culminates in Two Lane Blacktop fashion - Gaga’s blank stare morphs into a specter as the film burns and disintegrates in the projector.Įven though the clip’s running time ballooned beyond the length of standard videos, Gaga and Klein struggled to squeeze all their ideas into the final cut. Gaga swallows rosary beads, simulates sex with her dancers and winks at the “Lady Gaga has a penis” rumors by wearing a red phallus-shaped mark on her crotch.
Surrounded alternately by half-naked, monk-haired male dancers in high heels and uniformed soldiers, “Alejandro” avoids one defining plot, opting instead to wow viewers with its intense, provocative political and religious imagery. Get an eyeful of Lady Gaga’s wildest outfits. “The process was to express Lady Gaga’s desire to reveal her heart and bear her soul.” We combined dance, narrative and attributes of surrealism,” Klein, a fashion photographer who in the past has worked closely with Madonna, tells Rolling Stone.
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