Oh, we are back back. Tonight, Lady Gaga released the highly-anticipated music video for “Disease,” the newest single off LG7—her forthcoming seventh studio album. And boy did Mother Monster deliver: Gaga served up a twisted fashion fantasy that was equal parts glamorous and grotesque, harking back to the dark-pop era aesthetic she channeled during The Fame Monster era more than a decade ago.
But let’s get into the video, shall we? Sharing her inspiration for the track on her Instagram Stories earlier today, Gaga shared that “Disease” is a song about grappling with your own demons and illnesses. “I think a lot about the relationship I have with my own inner demons. It’s never been easy for me to face how I get seduced by chaos and turmoil,” Gaga wrote.
“Disease is about facing that fear, facing myself and my inner darkness, and realizing that sometimes I can’t win or escape the parts of myself that scare me.” The video, then, served as a continuation of this idea—with Gaga facing off against various ghoulish versions of herself, a battle of the evil-versus-the eviler. Of course, this being a Gaga video, her macabre costumes had to be avant-garde—and completely fabulous.
If her eerie wardrobe is a disease, we simply do not want the cure. Playing a masked villain of sorts, Gaga emerges wearing a zippered gimp mask with a long, black, ruffled overcoat and extra-long steel fingernails; She runs over herself wearing a sweet floral-print nightgown, as th.