Sunday, June 26, 2011
Lady Gaga's 'Edge Of Glory': A Pop-Culture Cheat Sheet
The first thing that strikes you about Lady Gaga's "The Edge of Glory" video is the fact that it's steeped in the rich, gauzy traditions of classic pop clips and noticeably missing any of the allegories, agendas or, uh, afterbirth of her previous work. Simply put, "Edge" is an homage to an entire genre of videos that has since gone by the wayside ? namely, the eternally soft-focused, ethereal mini-movies of the 1980s, (mostly) pop productions that reimagined cityscapes as dream-like fantasy worlds, where the just-wet streets shone like mirrors, the manholes frothed with steam and no piece of
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