Dark Science Fiction Inspired Music Videos
Lady Gaga, Britney Spears and Katy Perry are all female innovators of modern pop music, and now all three have stepped into the dark science fiction genre by releasing highly strange and sci-fi inspired music videos over the last two months.
Katy Perry's "E.T.", Lady Gaga's "Born This Way", and Britney Spears' "Hold It Against Me" use a variety of graphic sci-fi themes, while the songs themselves are not all about science fiction in terms of lyrics. A theme that is recurring in all three songs is that critics refuse to take them seriously, perhaps because pop radio doesn't tend to thrive on real issues. But sci-fi is all about metaphors and social commentary on the state of human existence, and for these three singers the common metaphor is rebirth.