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"Here's \"Alejandro,\" the newest music video from YouTube uberstar Lady Gaga. It adds almost nine more minutes of music, dancing, fashion and shock value to the Internet zeitgest, and judging from the over-the-top successes of \"Bad Romance\" and \"Telephone,\" it's going to be a big hit.\n\"Alejandro\" is the third single from Gaga's 2009 album The Fame Monster, and it's darker in tone than the bubbly, tongue-in-cheek \"Telephone.\" The video draws elements and visual stylings from the expressionist film movement of pre-Nazi 1920s Germany.\nGaga's usual influences of glam rock and Michael Jackson are obvious. Mix those and German expressionism with some steam punk, military uniforms, light bondage and a bra with assault rifle barrels attached to it and you have a quintessential work of Gaga art.\nThe video was shot with help from fashion photographer Steven Klein, and while the Madonna influence is always present in Gaga's work, it's especially hard to ignore the strong homages to Madonna's \"Vogue,\" \"Like a Prayer\" and \"Justify My Love\" in this one.\nThe 24-year old Lady Gaga (real name: Stefani Germanotta) is the biggest pop music artist recording today, having sold 15 million albums and 40 million singles. She quickly reached one billion views on YouTube, beating every other currently producing pop music act.\nWe don't need to ask you to let us know whether you think Gaga is worth the fuss or not. By now, most everyone has made up his or her mind, and we expect to see that in the comments!\nWatch the Video\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more web video coverage, follow Mashable Web Video on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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