Well, fellow adoring fans, it has arrived. The latest visual opus from Lady Gaga involves Hitchcockian puns, a disco lizard ballerina, a polar bear cape, space pods, and plenty of pop culture references we can’t spell out before the jump. Click through for our screen-by-screen analysis of the video for “Bad Romance,” complete with more cultural touchstones than you can shake a stick at (Anna Wintour! Where the Wild Things Are!, Nurse Mildred Ratched!) 12 costume changes, and at least one full disrobing.
