ale...who?

Don't call my name, Don't call my name, Alejandro
I'm not your babe, I'm not your babe, Fernando
Don't wanna kiss, Don't wanna touch
Just smoke my cigarette, hush
Don't call my name, Don't call my name, Roberto

And so we listened to Lady Gaga’s Alejandro in class.

Though I had heard of it over and over again over the radio, it never made any sense to me. This time however I had to be critical of the song. I had never watched the MV of Alejandro, and Dr.Jaya decided not to put it up on screen, because it is full of explicit scenes and also because it’s the fasting month. Wise decision. After listening to the song, it got me wondering. Ok, so the song is about this dude named Alehandro, whom in my mind could have been a homosexual; but who is Fernando & Roberto?

So, after class I googled the video. Goodness gracious me. It is brilliant and all, but rather disturbing. It is not just about the vagina formation moving across the screen as mention by Dr.Jaya, but the whole symbolism used in the MV itself.

In my point of view, it was like Gaga was fighting with herself and a higher being, and by a higher being I mean God. Alejandro? Fernando? Roberto? Can be just anybody. what is the message of the song really, and the MV..is it supposed to send a message to somebody? Too many questions unable to be answered.

Out of curiosity, I really wanted to know what the producer of the MV had in mind when he worked with Gaga on the MV. Was it wholly his bright idea? Or was it Gaga’s? So I googled again. I found out that before working with Gaga on "Alejandro," famed fashion photographer Steven Klein had never directed a proper music video. In terms of what influenced the clip, he stated that

"It is about a woman's desire to resurrect a dead love and who can not face the brutality of her present situation. The pain of living without your true love."

It is more of a combination of cinema and theater if you ask me. Yet still my question is still unanswered, who is Alejandro, Fernando, and Roberto? Gaga’s ex-lovers?