Lady Gaga videography
American singer Lady Gaga has released three video albums and has been featured in over fifty music videos. From her debut album The Fame, she released music videos for the singles "Just Dance", "Poker Face", "Eh, Eh", "LoveGame", and "Paparazzi". In the latter, Gaga portrays a doomed starlet taking revenge on her lover. She also shot a video for the album's promotional single "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich". Gaga reissued her first album as The Fame Monster, preceded by a music video for the lead single "Bad Romance", which won a Grammy Award for Best Music Video and seven MTV Video Music Awards, including MTV [Video Music Award for Video of the Year|Video of the Year] in 2010. The following year, Jonas Åkerlund directed the music video for "Telephone"—a continuation of "Paparazzi"—which was shot as a short film. It received an MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year nomination, and was named the Best Music Video of the Decade by Billboard in January 2015. For her 2010 video "Alejandro", Gaga received positive reviews from critics, though she was criticized by the Catholic League that alleged blasphemy.
Gaga's second studio album Born This Way released the music video for the eponymous lead single, in which she gives birth to a new race. The music video won the Best Female Video and Best Video with a Social Message awards at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards. In the following video, "Judas", she portrays Mary Magdalene, and Norman Reedus plays the title role. The video for "The Edge of Glory" consists mostly of interchanging shots of Gaga dancing and singing on the street and was considered the simplest of her career. In the same year, she released "You and I", which focuses on her trying to get her boyfriend back in Nebraska. She also introduces her male alter ego Jo Calderone in the video. Gaga directed her 14-minute video for the final single "Marry the Night", which narrates her story to find success in the music industry, but she ultimately suffers setback.
In 2013, Gaga released her third album Artpop, with "Applause" as its lead single, whose music video includes artistic and complex scenes. The 11-minute video for "G.U.Y." was filmed at the Hearst Castle, and features cameos from Andy Cohen and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills stars. In 2014, Gaga released a jazz album with Tony Bennett called Cheek to Cheek, which generated four studio videos showing the album's recording process. In 2015, she released the music video for "Til It Happens to You", a song about campus rape in the United States. Her fifth studio album, Joanne, was released in 2016, and the music video for its lead single, "Perfect Illusion", was shot in the desert with a story that continues in her subsequent videos "Million Reasons", "John Wayne", and "Joanne". Gaga's sixth studio album Chromatica spawned the music video for the lead single "Stupid Love", followed by "Rain on Me", which features Ariana Grande. She also released a short film for "911", which focuses on a variety of surreal hallucination she has after getting involved in a serious car accident. As part of Love for Sale (Tony Bennett and [Lady Gaga album)|Love for Sale]s promotion, Gaga and Bennett released numerous studio videos shot during recording sessions of each song.
Gaga has appeared in television shows, including in guest judging roles in American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance, as well as starring in an episode of The Simpsons. She is also featured in several movies and commercials, and has held two Thanksgiving television specials—A Very Gaga Thanksgiving and Lady Gaga and the Muppets Holiday Spectacular. Gaga starred in the fifth season of the horror anthology series American Horror Story, entitled Hotel, for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film. She also appeared in its sixth season, entitled Roanoke. Gaga was later the focus of the 2017 documentary Gaga: Five Foot Two, which explored the creation of Joanne and her preparation for the Super Bowl LI halftime show. She went onto star as a singer named Ally in the successful musical romantic drama A Star Is Born alongside Bradley Cooper. For her work, Gaga was nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress, while winning the Critics' Choice and National Board of Review awards. Her second leading role was in the biographical crime film House of Gucci, released in 2021. Gaga co-starred in Joker: Folie à Deux, which was released in 2024.
Music videos
| Denotes music videos directed by Lady Gaga |
| Title | Year | Other performer credited | Director | Description | |
| "Just Dance" | 2008 | The video begins with Gaga and her dancers arriving at an already ended house party, and starts playing the song prompting the asleep party-goers to wake up and start dancing to the music. The video features Gaga in her early fashion and incorporation of David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust character, her primary inspiration. Akon and Space Cowboy make cameos. | |||
| "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich" | 2008 | Shot in a mansion, the music video has two versions, one intercut with clips from the ABC channel's TV series Dirty Sexy Money and the other without them. Gaga and her dancers walk and dance through various parts of the building, while also burning money. Matsoukas employed heavy use of frontal lighting and low camera angles. | |||
| "Poker Face" | 2008 | Filmed in a luxury villa sponsored by Bwin, the music video portrays Gaga's fashion adopted for The Fame era and her ideas behind pop culture. It shows Gaga coming out of a pool in a mirror masquerade mask and a black full-body leotard. She then attends a party and plays strip poker. The imagery used in "Poker Face" shows futuristic science-fiction stylings and Gaga provoking the men to strip at the poker game rather than herself. | |||
| "Don't Give Up" | 2009 | The video is a remake of the original version by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush, and features Gaga and Ferraro singing the song, all the while remaining in an embrace with each other. | |||
| "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)" | 2009 | The Italian-American 1950s-inspired music video was shot back-to-back with the video for "LoveGame" at Little Italy. A contrast from her earlier releases, "Eh, Eh" finds Gaga and her friends roaming around the streets of an Italian neighborhood; Gaga riding a Vespa and also singing the song while at home with her boyfriend. The visuals portray stereotypical male personas like mustached chefs and macho men in wife beaters. | |||
| "LoveGame" | 2009 | Inspired by the New York underground, the music video portrays Gaga dancing at an underground subway station and in a parking lot. It is a tribute from the singer to the New York lifestyle, including its glamour, fans and fashion. The video takes several influences from Michael Jackson's "Bad" music video, which also took place in a subway station. | |||
| "Chillin" | 2009 | Wale | The music video features Wale and Gaga at the District of Columbia's Cardozo Senior High School and Wale in various venues and streets in the District. In the United States, the video was added to BET's TV rotation. | ||
| "Paparazzi" | 2009 | The music video portrays Gaga as a doomed starlet, who is followed by photographers everywhere. She is almost killed by her boyfriend, but survives and poisons him to revenge herself. It finishes with Gaga being arrested. Gaga's inspirations for the video ranged from classic films and fashion photography, while the visuals portray dead models, newspaper reports for the plot, as well as a number of encoded meanings. | |||
| "Bad Romance" | 2009 | The video features Gaga inside a surreal white bathhouse. There, she gets kidnapped by a group of supermodels who drug her and sell her to the Russian mafia for sexual slavery. The music video ends with Gaga killing the man who bought her by setting him on fire. | |||
| "Video Phone" | 2009 | Beyoncé | The video portrays Gaga and Beyoncé in a number of costumes, brandishing colorful guns towards men and paying homage to the film Reservoir Dogs and pin-up model Bettie Page. It won a BET Award for Video of the Year and various nominations at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. | ||
| "Telephone" | 2010 | Beyoncé | The music video is a continuation of the plot from the "Paparazzi" video and was shot as a short film. After Gaga gets bailed out of prison by Beyoncé, they go to a diner to get revenge on Beyoncé's boyfriend, but accidentally end up killing all the guests having breakfast. Upon escape from the crime scene, the two end up in a high-speed police chase. The video referenced Quentin Tarantino's films Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Pulp Fiction. | ||
| "Alejandro" | 2010 | Inspired by Gaga's love for the gay community, the video showed the singer dancing with a group of soldiers in a cabaret, interspersed with scenes of Gaga as a nun swallowing a rosary and near-naked men holding machine guns. Critics complimented its idea and dark nature while the Catholic League criticized Gaga for blasphemy. | |||
| "Born This Way" | 2011 | Inspired by painters like Salvador Dalí and Francis Bacon and their surrealistic images, Gaga is depicted as giving birth to a new human race free of prejudice during the video's prologue. The scenes alternate between various dance sequences and Gaga singing on a throne in space. | |||
| "Judas" | 2011 | Laurieann Gibson | Co-starring Norman Reedus, the video has a Biblical storyline where Reedus plays Judas Iscariot and Gaga plays Mary Magdalene. The video portrays them as modern day missionaries, representing the Twelve Apostles going with Jesus to Jerusalem. It includes the Biblical story of Judas betraying Jesus, and ends with Gaga as Mary Magdalene getting stoned to death. | ||
| "" | 2011 | Haus of Gaga | A simple video in contrast to much of Gaga's previous work, it portrays her dancing on an apartment building's fire escape and walking on a lonely street in New York City. Differences to Gaga's previous videos include the lack of intricate choreography and back-up dancers, as well as using only one outfit, which was designed by Versace. Aside from Gaga herself, Clarence Clemons is the only other person to appear in the video. | ||
| "3-Way (The Golden Rule)" | 2011 | Justin Timberlake | Jorma Taccone | The video features shots of Timberlake and Andy Samberg singing around town. Timberlake tells his plan to have a sexual encounter with a girl he met, while Samberg reveals a similar plan. They both meet outside of Gaga's apartment, where it is revealed that both of them met the same girl, without each other knowing. Gaga explains that she invited them both so that they could have a threesome, which they agree to do because of "the golden rule". The music video aired as part of the SNL Digital Short series. | |
| "You and I" | 2011 | Shot in Springfield, Nebraska, the video features Jo Calderone, Gaga's male alter ego, and Yüyi, her mermaid alter ego. The main concept behind the video is Gaga's journey to be with her beloved one, a mad scientist, portrayed by Taylor Kinney. | |||
| "The Lady Is a Tramp" | 2011 | The video shows Bennett and Gaga singing together in a studio in front of music stands. | |||
| "Marry the Night" | 2011 | Filmed in New York City, it tells the story of Gaga getting signed by her record label Interscope Records after being dropped from her former label, Def Jam Recordings. Alternates between scenes in a clinic, a dance studio, her own New York apartment and on a car's rooftop at a parking lot. | |||
| "Applause" | 2013 | Inez and Vinoodh | The video draws inspiration from the arts, including Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus, Andy Warhol's depiction of Marilyn Monroe and John Galliano's fall 2009 fashion show. Alternating between color and black-and-white, it shows artistic and complex scenes such as Gaga's head on a swan, a scene in a bird cage, and the singer seated in a large top hat. Gaga also wears hand-shaped lingerie and a seashell bra with matching shell bikini. Near the climax, the singer features in a violet, crystal-like scene, and at the end, the name of her album Artpop is spelled using hand gestures. | ||
| "G.U.Y. – An Artpop Film" | 2014 | The music video was shot at Hearst Castle, near San Simeon, California. The video featured reality television show actors like The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and art works of artist Nathan Sawaya and YouTube's Minecraft entertainer SkyDoesMinecraft. Running for over eleven minutes, the video shows Gaga as a fallen and wounded angel, who is revived by her followers in a pool. Once rejuvenated, she takes revenge on the men who hunted her and replaces them with clones known as G.U.Y. | |||
| "Anything Goes" | 2014 | Harvey White | A studio video featuring Gaga and Bennett recording songs for Cheek to Cheek. | ||
| "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" | 2014 | Harvey White | A studio video featuring Gaga and Bennett recording songs for Cheek to Cheek. | ||
| "But Beautiful" | 2014 | Harvey White | A studio video featuring Gaga and Bennett recording songs for Cheek to Cheek. | ||
| "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" | 2014 | Harvey White | A studio video featuring Gaga and Bennett recording songs for Cheek to Cheek. | ||
| "Til It Happens to You" | 2015 | Shot in black-and-white for the 2015 documentary film The Hunting Ground, and part of a public service announcement video, it depicts various instances of violence against women, as well as sexual assaults. It ends with a cautionary note on their effects, and the victims finding solace with their close friends and relatives. Gaga is not featured in the video. | |||
| "Perfect Illusion" | 2016 | Andrea Gelardin | Gaga is seen performing in a crowd in the desert, including the song's producers Kevin Parker, Mark Ronson, and BloodPop. | ||
| "Million Reasons" | 2016 | Ruth Hogben Andrea Gelardin | A continuation from the music video for "Perfect Illusion", it shows Gaga being picked up from the desert by her friends and workmates. Afterwards, she goes into a studio to film a music video for the song. | ||
| "John Wayne" | 2017 | A continuation from the music video for "Million Reasons", it features Gaga riding a horse and getting involved in a dangerous motorcycle chase. The video intercuts with scenes of Gaga dancing under neon lights and gun shoots. | |||
| "Joanne (Where Do You Think You're Goin'?)" | 2018 | Andrea Gelardin Haus of Gaga | The video depicts Gaga playing instruments and walking outdoors in a backyard, along with images of her at a bar with friends. The clip is a mixture of black and white and colored scenes. | ||
| "Shallow" | 2018 | Bradley Cooper | Bradley Cooper | The video is composed of various clips from Gaga's film A Star Is Born. Gaga's character, Ally, and Jackson Maine, played by Bradley Cooper, perform the song for the first time at a sold-out venue. | |
| "Look What I Found" | 2018 | Bradley Cooper | The video is composed of various clips from A Star Is Born. Gaga's character, Ally, records "Look What I Found" in a recording studio. | ||
| "I'll Never Love Again" | 2018 | Bradley Cooper | The video is composed of various clips from A Star Is Born. Features Gaga's character singing a tribute to her late husband Jackson. | ||
| "Always Remember Us This Way" | 2018 | Bradley Cooper | The video is composed of various clips from A Star Is Born. Features Gaga's character going onstage to sing the song, introduced by Bradley Cooper's character Jackson. A vertical video was also released to Spotify. | ||
| "Stupid Love" | 2020 | Daniel Askill | The main concept of the video is bringing different kinds of people together under music and dance. It is represented with separate groups of dancers, each forming a unique tribe with a corresponding color and logo. | ||
| "Rain on Me" | 2020 | The video continues the story of Chromatica and the dual mirror worlds with which Gaga and Grande's characters exist. It ends with a shot of the two singers hugging each other. | |||
| "911" | 2020 | Tarsem Singh | Heavily inspired by Sergei Parajanov's The Color of Pomegranates, the video reveals to be an elaborate hallucination, as Gaga suddenly snaps back into reality in an ambulance after being involved in a serious car accident. It also features "Chromatica II" and "Chromatica III". | ||
| "I Get a Kick Out of You" | 2021 | A studio video featuring Gaga and Bennett recording the song. | |||
| "Love for Sale" | 2021 | A studio video featuring Gaga and Bennett recording the song. | |||
| "I've Got You Under My Skin" | 2021 | A studio video featuring Gaga and Bennett recording the song. | |||
| "I Concentrate on You" | 2021 | The video shows the sketch session which resulted in Bennett's drawing appearing on the album cover of Love for Sale standard edition. | |||
| "Dream Dancing" | 2021 | A studio video featuring Gaga and Bennett recording the song. | |||
| "Night and Day" | 2021 | A studio video featuring Gaga and Bennett recording the song. | |||
| "Hold My Hand" | 2022 | Directed by Top Gun: Maverick director, Joseph Kosinski, it shows Gaga singing under a jet, while playing a piano on a plane runway. The video is spliced with scenes of the film as well. It ends with Gaga belting the lyrics as jets take off. | |||
| "Die with a Smile" | 2024 | | It shows the duo performing the song on a retro stage of a television studio set, populated by faceless mannequins, as a black-and-white camera records them. | ||
| "Disease" | 2024 | It shows two Gagas being pitted against each other in the presence of a mysterious, gimp-suited figure eventually revealed to be Gaga herself. | |||
| "Abracadabra" | 2025 | Parris Goebel Bethany Vargas | The music video opens with Gaga, standing on the upper level of a grand venue, dressed in a spiked red latex outfit. She declares, "The category is dance or die," setting off an intense choreography sequence featuring a crowd of forty dancers, all dressed in white. | ||
| "The Dead Dance" | 2025 | Tim Burton |