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Alejandro (Single Cover)

With all the hoo haa on Lady GaGa’s latest video, Alejandro” , the director of the clip Steven Klein decided to come forward to not only defend the criticism, but also to explain it to those who were left scratching their heads after watching the video…

“The religious symbolism is not meant to denote anything negative, but represents the character’s battle between the dark forces of this world and the spiritual salvation of the Soul,” Klein explained. “Thus at the end of the film, she chooses to be a nun, and the reason her mouth and eyes disappear is because she is withdrawing her senses from the world of evil and going inward towards prayer and contemplation.”

Klein added that the scene in which Gaga ingests the rosary beads is meant to represent “the desire to take in the holy.”