Lady Gaga - Stupid Love

What this video is

Released February 28, 2020 — weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped global culture — 'Stupid Love' arrived as both a commercial spectacle and an intentional political allegory. The video's warring colored tribes were explicitly framed by Gaga as a metaphor for global polarization and political divisiveness. Its release marked Gaga's first non-A Star Is Born pop single since 2017, widely interpreted as a…

Why it matters

A landmark in 2020s maximalist pop visual culture. The video crystallized Gaga's Chromatica-era reclamation of electropop extravagance after a period of acoustic introspection, drawing critical comparisons to her Bad Romance and Artpop-era visual language. Its iPhone-shot production method…

The director

Australian-born, New York-based film director and artist (b. Sydney, 1977). Studied at University of Technology Sydney and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. Co-founded multidisciplinary studio Collider in 2001. Directed the…