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Here we have Gaga entering the "Prison for Bitches," accompanied by two butch-looking ladies, ready to serve her time for the crimes she committed in "Paparazzi."

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Stripping Gaga of her clothes, they also strip her of her persona, leaving her exposed and vulnerable—naked. Her sexuality is on full display, but she's helpless behind bars—a statement about the trappings of fame (a theme continued from "Paparazzi") and society's entitlement to comment so freely about the sexual identity of its celebrities. As the guards are leaving, we hear one address the rumors of her gender, saying "I told you she didn't have a dick."

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Our heroine is then led into the prison yard of lesbians, covered in chains and glasses made of smoking cigarettes—imagery alert! We also get an image of Gaga's HeartBeats headphones, from Beats by Dre (the first of many product placements), while someone is busting her song "Paper Gangsta" on the radio. The song choice is, of course, deliberate; it's a song about girl power ("A superwoman chick you know that I am/Some shit don't fly by me in a man"), and a tirade against flaky men: "Don't want no paper gangsta/Won't sign away my life to someone/Who's got the flavor but don't have no follow through."

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In the end, men are all talk and Gaga is ready for a change—which later prompts her decision to hop on the "Pussy Wagon" (Tarantino himself suggested she use the iconic truck from Kill Bill). Her smoking glasses are a cloudy veil that obstructs her view of reality, allowing her to base her feelings on senses alone, blurring the genders of the women around her.

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Once chained down by her sexuality as defined by society, we see Gaga shed them and come out in the next scene in full badass-bitch garb. She stands side-by-side with her true self (Stefani Germanotta, played here by twin-like 17 year-old sister Natali), who eyes the Chanel-donning artist, in all her Diet-Coke-for-hair-rollers-glory. (Coke! How Andy Warhol! And apparently also a nod to her mother's beauty techniques.) A chick-fight ensues as Gaga looks on; she lives in a world where men make women end up in correctional facilities, where they end up turning on each other instead of joining together and embracing girl power. She's disgusted.

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The first dance sequence is all about...honestly, it's about how skinny Lady Gaga has become. While she was certainly slim at the start of her Gaga career, her weight was still in the realm of normal, and it was refreshing to see someone in the industry flaunting healthy-looking thighs with such reckless abandon. That girl has been replaced with the Incredible Shrinking Woman, adhering to cookie-cutter expectations of what pop stars should look like. How's that for being a groundbreaking artist? Perhaps we needn't look much further to explain the strange accent she's adopted and her ridiculously slow response time in interviews—this girl is HUNGRY. It's also a nod to David LaChapelle, who famously shot her for Rolling Stone and the special limited-edition copies of The Fame Monster.)