Now this is how you make a very sexy video utilizing super-funky clothes:
Robyn 'Indestructible' Official Video
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I wrote a little bit back about the challenges of writing sex scenes if only because all sexual experiences are different, and so writing one effectively doesn't mean you've figured out how to write another. The same's true for sex on film, even non-pornographic film. Most of the time, there's an effort to come up with the perfect choreography of desire on the conviction that said choreography is necessarily graceful. This is wrong. And I think that's part of what this video nails: you have to fumble with a few bra straps, you nuzzle, you laugh, if you're doing it right you're not thinking about what you look like while you're doing it. This is messy and shy and happy and intimate in a way Kylie Minogue's giant pile of writhe just wasn't.
As for the outfit, Lady Gaga's over-the-top constructions have become essentially predictable: we're conditioned to see her in just about anything, unless she pulls a Bolton and starts wearing flayed skins. But no matter how many costume changes she makes in a video, or how many latex inverted crucifixes she wears over her ladybits, she hasn't come up with an outfit that's quite this dynamic, I think. The clothes are actually subtle signaling in the narrative. It's functional and funky. Very smart all around.