Buzzworthy's #1 Top Video Of 2009: Lady Gaga, "Bad Romance"
Lady Gaga's built her bottle rocket of a career on full-frontal performance art, freakish fashion, and insanely infectious hooks. But the platform upon which those pillars are built is Lady Gaga's ability to absolutely next-level everything she does. Where some artists take a good idea and repeat it, Lady Gaga doesn't just reinvent the wheel -- she makes a better one -- and takes it a step higher every time, from her VMA performance to her American Music Awards performance (uh... FLAMING PIANO!??!) down to the red dress she wore to meet the Queen of England. But nothing Gaga's done has been more next-level than her "Bad Romance" video.
On its own, as a record, "Bad Romance" was almost too big to be believed. And the anticipation wrapped around the "Bad Romance" video was an event in and of itself. It's hard to think of a video since "Thriller" that, well, thrilled like "Bad Romance." It became an instant classic and Gaga's best video yet. In 2009 we needed to escape, and no artist's video met that need better than Gaga in "Bad Romance."