Lady Gaga's new music video for “Born This Way” begins with a powerful creation myth.
In a voiceover with eerie and dramatic space music, Gaga begins: “This is the manifesto of Mother Monster.” She then describes a birth of magnificent and magical proportions: it was the infinite birth of the mitosis of the future, infinite wombs giving birth to infinite new life—and it is eternal! It is the birth of a new race within the race of humanity, an evolution into a race that is without prejudice, without judgment, only boundless freedom. This is the birth from the Eternal Mother of the Multiverse.
But at the same time, there is another birth: the birth of Evil. And She Herself is split in two, rotating in agony between two ultimate forces. It seems so obvious that everyone would choose good, but the Mother wonders, “How can I protect something so perfect without evil?”
Then begins the song “Born This Way.” The song is unabashedly gay positive, with lyrics like “Don’t be a drag – Just be a queen” and the closing verse, “No matter gay, straight, or bi, lesbian, transgendered life / I’m on the right track baby / I was born to survive.” The rest of the verse then recaps with another layer of division among humans: “No matter black, white or beige / chola or orient made.” So all difference—sexual and racial—is celebrated as love for life; to wit, “I was born this way.”
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