Lady Gaga has released the music video for her new single “Perfect Illusion,” which heralds the release of her forthcoming album, Joanne, due out Oct. 21. Joanne will mark Gaga’s first solo effort since her last LP, Artpop, released in 2013. It also follows her duet album, Cheek to Cheek, recorded with lounge legend Tony Bennett.
Her new album features collaborations with Mark Ronson, Kevin Parker of Tame Impala, Josh Homme, Father John Misty and Hillary Lindsey. Ronson, Parker and producer BloodPop are also featured in the music video.
Directed by Andrea Gelardin and Ruth Hogben, the video is one big desert party as Gaga tears across the long stretches of sand in a Jeep. The event grows wilder and wilder as the sun sets, with strobe lights flashing and the singer leading the crowd’s revelry in a tight black t-shirt and high-cut jean shorts. She has on-point festival fashion in the shot, understandably so as Hogben is active in the industry. While Gaga is clearly hitting on something, which may be the abundance and decadence of outdoor ragers in today’s culture, but the music video fails to deliver the "modern ecstasy" that it could have.
In a recent interview Gaga did with Zane Lowe, the singer talked about the meaning behind the album title. Joanne was named for her aunt, who died from lupus at the young age of 19. Her death impacted the family severely, and her father’s restaurant in New York is even named for his late sister.
“It’s everything about Joanne,” Gaga said to Lowe. “It’s all the toughness of the pain of losing her that made us all strong and made us who we are. She is the woman of my past who is becoming and helping me bring more of my honest woman self into the future.”
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