Chapter 7: Lady Gaga: The Line Between Benefits & Heartbreak LoveGame (The Fame March 2009) Lady Gaga sees a guy at the club and wants to have sex with him. She asks him repeatedly if he's in it for the game or for love? It seems from the song and the vide that she would be fine with commitmentless sex. Bad Romance (The Fame Monster October 2009) Lady Gaga plays a woman sold into the sex trade, in fact this is a metaphor for how women get trapped into commitmentless sex. How by having pure sex without love, women will eventually always get emotionally attached to the man they are sleeping with. It is about a co-dependant relationship in which the woman is serving the man sexually and the man is serving the woman's need to feel wanted by someone, even if it is at her own detriment. Reinvention Lady Gaga is someone who some people might say has always been pretty out there, but as an NYU student only slightly junior to Gaga I got to witness Stephanie Germanotta as a student via YouTube. Even in the early months of her career Gaga was reinventing herself. Starting out as a blonde hottie, donning American Apparelesque leotards and tights, Gaga was out there but not anything compared to the shockfest she is now. As you can see from her LoveGame video Gaga is barely made-up, in regularish clothes and still dancing like a normal person. This all changes in Bad Romance when we see her outfits, hair and makeup go from out there to out there and around the corner. Noticeably thinner Gaga didn't only change her looks but her sound as well, going from more dance pop to futuristic sounding. And lets not forget her signature Gaga claw replacing more traditional dance steps. Dichotomy Gaga represents an interesting dichotomy with LoveGame and Bad Romance. She makes statements about commitmentless sex in both songs, but addresses them very differently. In LoveGame Gaga is a proponent of commitmentless sex, saying, "Yes I'm educated in sex, and now I want to play." As in Human Nature, she is letting the audience know that sex for sex's sake is acceptable. However, in Bad Romance, the message comes across more like the Express Yourself message. It says, this is what will happen to you if you have commitmentless sex, you will be caught in a bad romance, unable to break free. Again we see contradicting philosophies of "have sex because it's fun, but if you do you're going to get hurt." Gaga can't seem to find a good grasp on whether women can have sex without getting emotionally entangled and becoming a victim of their own crime or not.