23 votes

Lady Gaga - Abracadabra (2025)

17 comments

  1. [3]
    Flother
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    Posted this purely for how well done the choreography is. Easily one of the best music videos produced in recent years IMO.

    Posted this purely for how well done the choreography is. Easily one of the best music videos produced in recent years IMO.

    14 votes
    1. smoontjes
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      Definitely great choreography! And good song too although I had a jumpscare towards the end lol

      Definitely great choreography! And good song too although I had a jumpscare towards the end lol

      4 votes
    2. arrza
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      You haven't been following Jungle's music videos! This was outstanding, but Jungle's choreography is second to none.

      You haven't been following Jungle's music videos!

      This was outstanding, but Jungle's choreography is second to none.

      2 votes
  2. [6]
    kfwyre
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    Visually STUNNING. Also this song makes me want to go to a gay club for the first time in like, fifteen years.

    Visually STUNNING.

    Also this song makes me want to go to a gay club for the first time in like, fifteen years.

    10 votes
    1. [5]
      kfwyre
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      This video is now at 13 million views and I am responsible for probably 2 million of those. I can’t stop watching it. The seated red-vs-white throwdown is my favorite part. Also, I listened to the...

      This video is now at 13 million views and I am responsible for probably 2 million of those. I can’t stop watching it.

      The seated red-vs-white throwdown is my favorite part.

      Also, I listened to the song on its own, and it felt emptier than it does on the video. I think the choreo is so good that it really electrifies the whole thing and gives it a much punchier feel.

      8 votes
      1. Flother
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        Definitely agree! My friend first mentioned this song to me as I haven't really been on top of new music much for the last few years, and she couldn't decide if she liked it at first. She had...

        Definitely agree!

        My friend first mentioned this song to me as I haven't really been on top of new music much for the last few years, and she couldn't decide if she liked it at first. She had listened to it before seeing the music video and I think that made all the difference, because my jaw almost dropped watching that red-and-white throwdown scene for the first time.

        3 votes
      2. [3]
        cfabbro
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        69,544,652 views now. And even a month later I still can't get enough of this video either. It's just so fucking good! And seemingly every time I watch it I spot something new. BTW, one of my...

        69,544,652 views now. And even a month later I still can't get enough of this video either. It's just so fucking good! And seemingly every time I watch it I spot something new.

        BTW, one of my favorite choreographers, Brian Friedman (who was also actually one of the dancers in the music video), just released a video of his students dancing to this song... which is why I came back to the watch the original once again for the millionth time too. :P

        3 votes
        1. [2]
          kfwyre
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          That was great! I love seeing the choreo without the camera cuts. I also love the four bars where they just pause with their legs out. 😆 The new album drops THIS FRIDAY!

          That was great! I love seeing the choreo without the camera cuts. I also love the four bars where they just pause with their legs out. 😆

          The new album drops THIS FRIDAY!

          2 votes
          1. cfabbro
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            Strike a yoga pose! Look fierce! Hold. Hooold. Hoooooold. Okay, cut! :P Yeah, I'm looking forward to it too. Although just like Billie Eilish, I much prefer Gaga's live and stripped-back stuff to...

            I also love the four bars where they just pause with their legs out.

            Strike a yoga pose! Look fierce! Hold. Hooold. Hoooooold. Okay, cut! :P

            The new album drops THIS FRIDAY!

            Yeah, I'm looking forward to it too. Although just like Billie Eilish, I much prefer Gaga's live and stripped-back stuff to her studio albums. At least with a new album out I can look forward to lots of new live performances (and dance choreo vids) of the various new tracks too though.

            2 votes
  3. [3]
    JCPhoenix
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    This is like old-school, OG Lady Gaga. Saw some of the YT comments said like Artpop and The Fame Monster combined, which I agree 100%. Love it. And others have you said, the choreography is top...

    This is like old-school, OG Lady Gaga. Saw some of the YT comments said like Artpop and The Fame Monster combined, which I agree 100%. Love it.

    And others have you said, the choreography is top notch. Love when she's the Lady in Red, around 2:25, dancing like an old woman, all the way through about 3:15!

    6 votes
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      paris
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      To be honest, the “old woman” segments left me very uncomfortable. It came across as a mocking pastiche of disability.

      To be honest, the “old woman” segments left me very uncomfortable. It came across as a mocking pastiche of disability.

      1 vote
      1. JCPhoenix
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        Interesting; hadn't viewed it that way before, but I could see it. How I saw it, and what I think the intention was, was playing like the stereotypical old witch lady. Hence the name of the song...

        Interesting; hadn't viewed it that way before, but I could see it.

        How I saw it, and what I think the intention was, was playing like the stereotypical old witch lady. Hence the name of the song and the lyrics. The witch is casting a spell to dance or die and all that. In a similar vein to the Phantom of the Opera references.

        3 votes
  4. indigorocket
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    The video is a major WOW. There is so much emotion and drive. In the music video when the song breaks and it sounds like the "actual" room, it is like ...primal. The scream she does before the...

    The video is a major WOW. There is so much emotion and drive. In the music video when the song breaks and it sounds like the "actual" room, it is like ...primal. The scream she does before the music returns is so raw. You feel it! After that, the expression on her face in the last few frames is just dead.

    It's truly so well done. I've watched it once or twice, ha.

    5 votes
  5. [3]
    cfabbro
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    New album, MAYHEM, out now: https://www.ladygaga.com/us-en/ https://album.link/i/1792666546 cc: @kfwyre
    5 votes
    1. [2]
      Flother
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      Perfection 😭 nothing more to say It's been a very long time since I listened to more than a handful of songs from an album. Zombieboy is an addictive disco-esque bop

      Perfection 😭 nothing more to say

      It's been a very long time since I listened to more than a handful of songs from an album.

      Zombieboy is an addictive disco-esque bop

      2 votes
      1. cfabbro
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        Perfection, indeed! Not a subpar track on it, IMO. My fave (besides Abracadabra) was Don't Call Tonight. I love the 80s vibe of it. p.s. Zombieboy took me by surprise though, since the beginning...

        Perfection, indeed! Not a subpar track on it, IMO. My fave (besides Abracadabra) was Don't Call Tonight. I love the 80s vibe of it.

        p.s. Zombieboy took me by surprise though, since the beginning of it sounds so much like Hollaback Girl. :P

        2 votes
  6. Randomise
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    Absolutely ADORE it. The visuals, the electro, the lyrics. This is Gaga in its purest form. Thanks for the link!

    Absolutely ADORE it. The visuals, the electro, the lyrics. This is Gaga in its purest form.

    Thanks for the link!

    3 votes