Those beds are metaphors for what gay men experience when they’re trying to fight their growing erections from their fantasies when trying to sleep at night. As the video carries on, you see her getting “felt up” by a man in a scene with various beds. That’s very blatant and evident in what she wears, the crosses in the background, her swallowing rosemary beads, and so on. Gaga is a modern symbol of the virgin Mary – a cold, religiously bound woman who cares about serving and satisfying Christ. Gaga is simply a symbol for how conflicting religion becomes when a gay man has to emotionally deal with accepting that he’s ‘gay’ when his religion tells him that it’s a sin. Gaga is not meant to be the focus of this video. Those outfits are symbols for the intense religious Christian-Catholic backlash that the LGBT community experiences from religious zealots with how they say that ‘gays are going to hell’, ‘you need jesus,’ ‘being gay is a sin,’ etc.

However, as the video progresses, you see Gaga in and out of scenes, wearing these religious outfits. Them marching around in synchronized form represents the role that they’re expected to play in society – Always marching in a tight pattern, never meant to branch off from that gender role. The soldiers in this video are meant to represent the gay, transgendered and bisexual men in this society that are *expected* to be aggressive and fully ‘masculine’ men. I’m going to basically explain this video to everyone that’s either disgusted by this, indifferent or simply does not ‘understand it.’

Lady gaga alejandro video analysis