I read somewhere that Lady Gaga wrote songs by, first, picking the outfit she would perform them in. Some glossy rag sampled her thusly: “Fashion saved my life.”

Here’s her latest joint, “Bad Romance” via BB (click through for video of Gaga rocking a talent show in her NYU days). Check the outfits:

Gaga’s is the first pop act that’s come along in quite a while — basically since MJ’s Thriller days — that I enjoy, and her style has much to do with that. Her music is take-it-or-leave-it, but as a platform for her personality it works. I like how her work is quietly obsessed with eyes, vision, seeing.

The title of this post is a Pharrell quote. The video is from InterScope-Geffen-A&M‘s official YouTube channel — thank you, IGA, for making embedding easy.