Hello, dear readers. Hope you're doin good.
First and foremost, I want to present the circunstances of idealization of this blog.
I am a fan of progressive metal and rock, especially crazy about concept albuns associated with these genres. After I heard Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime, one of the best concept albuns ever made, in my humble opinion, I compulsively started searching for more albuns in the same vein (ended up listening to Pain of Salvation, Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, Devin Townsend, Opeth, and other bands associated with the so called 'progressive' movement). I had this little obssession about discovering all the mysteries and hidden messages around the concept albuns of these bands. I often like to hear albuns and songs that favor the patient listener. I get really thrilled when I have a new theory about a certain song and about how that song fits in that album's concept and all that. I always loved lyrical mysteriousness (if that's a word) and poetryness (this one defnately is NOT), and was always really intrigued by them.
Ok, that's a fine, necessary and sufficient introdution about my musical past. (I forgot to mention my 'initiation' in rock and metal, which happened by the means of the epic and somewhat ridiculously pompous music crafted by Rhapsody of Fire, who, after all, will always have my respect and a dear place in my heart, but that's not a story for now).
The casual reader might ask, 'so how come you've started listening to Lady Gaga?'. Well, I don't really remember the beggining of it all, but it started with Bad Romance, when its video clip had just hit the screens and was played everywhere. I remember listening to it and thinking 'well, that's OK for pop music... I've never liked it that much but this girl (Lady Gaga, haha) seems to have some intelligent ideas and concepts that fit well with her music, and it's accessible, nice, and the lyrics seem nice too, yeah, nice.' But well, I didn't took her seriously back then.
After Bad Romance there was Alejandro, which I watched and thought was cool and had a sexy dance, then there was Telephone, which I thought had a funny videoclip, but was just futile and empty. There were always some wierd elements in her songs, words in her lyrics and scenes in the videoclips, that never fitted with the average interpretation of her songs. But I was not intrigued back then. Not until Born This Way was released.
As soon as the videoclip for Born This Way came out, my girlfriend fell in love with the song and with the videoclip as well. She showed it to me and had lots of ideas about it. We were both intrigued by the concept of the videoclip. We would often ask ourselves: 'what is all that birth, GOAT, bad versus evil sh*t in the videoclip prelude?'. I think that videoclip was the one that got us truly interested in Gaga. We really wanted to discover what was all that about. I downloaded (sorry, no money for the CDs) her past albuns (The Fame and The Fame Monster) and as soon as Born This Way album came out, I downloaded it too. I put it all in a pen drive and listened (and still listen) to it a lot in the car while driving, which is where I listen to most of my music since I drive a lot.
Well, seeing that Born This Way was obviously a concept album, my little addictive obssession with discovering concept album mysteries was now completely hooked on Lady Gaga's new album. Like many of you who went after explanations for the symbolisms and concepts revolving around Lady Gaga's artistry, I searched the internet and was flooded with an ENORMOUS amount of conspiracy theories explanations: illuminati, satanism, pacts with the devil, monarch programming, mind control, anticristianism, apocaplyptic destructions caused by the evil that Lady Gaga would bring from hell onto Earth, etc. Well, that's all we had for the moment, and we actually worked our minds a lot with it and reached a decisive conclusion. From listening to Gaga's musics with all these crazy theories in mind, we agreed that she made a pact with the devil giving her soul for her fame, and believed she could, now that she was famous, seduce the devil with her sexy body and take over his place as the ultimate lord of Hell, transforming herself in the actual ultimate Queen of Hell and future dominator of Earth and bringer of the Apocalypse. That actually made sense back then, but I always thought there outghta be a simpler (and plausible) explanation.
