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Showing posts with label egypt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label egypt. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Gaga for Death Continued

All seeing eye on dancers jacket + Gaga's Occult hand sign

Lady Gaga kicked off her Monster Ball tour this week and added more weight to the themes I covered in Gaga for Death. In addition to the symbolism featured in the photo above, there were other elements worth noting. The show started with her new song "Dance In The Dark" which is a song about the tragic deaths of icons such as Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Sylvia Plath, and Jon Bonet Ramsey. This is yet another example of how this era in Lady Gaga's career is all about death. Later on in the show Lady Gaga performed as Egyptian God Anubis. Anubis was the Egyptian God of death. He was the patron of mummification and the dead on their path to the underworld.

But it's only about her emotional monsters...




Saturday, February 14, 2009

Illuminated Vocalists

Here's an old performance of Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey performing "When You Believe" at the Oscars. The song is on the Prince of Egypt soundtrack which I guess was nominated that year (1998, I believe). The symbolism in this performance is so blatant that honestly I don't even need to explain it, but I will still explain it for people that don't get it.
A sun rises at the climax of the performance.
The two divas perform on a checkerboard floor as the choir behind them sing in a pyramid.
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