Mexico.- The American singer and songwriter Lady Gaga released this Wednesday ‘The Dead Dance’, her new song, which already has more than 791,000 views on YouTube, and whose video, directed by filmmaker Tim Burton, was filmed on the Island of the Dolls of Xochimilco, south of Mexico City.
In the video clip, filmed in black and white, the vegetation surrounding the emblematic canals of Xochimilco can be observed, as well as the gloomy dolls hanging from the trees, in addition to hearing the sound of the insects that roam the tourist attraction.
The ‘Mother Monster’, who landed in Mexico in April of this year to present her ‘Mayhem’ tour, surprised by publishing this video clip on her social networks, recorded on the Island of the Dolls, which contains more than 1,000 dolls worn by time and weather, collected by a Mexican in 1950.
The premiere of the song – a mix of disco, pop, and gothic – went viral on social media in Mexico, and will be part of the musicalization of the second season of the series ‘Wednesday’, also directed by Burton and starring Jenna Ortega.
Additionally, Lady Gaga joins the cast of the Netflix series, portraying Professor Rosaline Rotwood, one of the most anticipated characters in the new season that will appear this Wednesday.
In the song, Gaga sports a broken face and wears a Victorian outfit, similar to those of the dolls from the Mexican Island, in a collective work between the singer, Andrew Watt and the Canadian musician Cirkut, which brings back that gothic and theatrical essence that characterized the pieces of ‘Mayhem’, with which she offered a mythical spectacle in the past edition of the Coachella festival in the USA.
The Mexican setting and the mimicry with the dolls by Lady Gaga generated a wave of reactions on social media, where users described the music video as a work of art for how the visual elements of the country merged with the composer’s gothic style.
The Island of the Dolls is one of the most ‘terrifying’ corners of the Mexican capital, as it houses ancestral superstitions and the story of a former owner who, more than 70 years ago, decided to hang dolls in the trees to ward off the spirit of a girl who drowned in the canals of Xochimilco.
