Lady Gaga: Dance in the Dark Meaning
Dance in the Dark Lyrics
I'm a free bitch
I'm a free bitch
Some girls won't dance to the beat of the track
She won't walk away, but she won't look back
She looks good, but her boyfriend says she's a mess
She's a mess, she's a...
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#1 top rated interpretation:It is all about hiding something that we are feeling insecure about. We are all aware of the fact that people tend to judge, like all the time. Social pressure, constantly surrounding us. Unable to let the pressure drop, until we close the door behind us. Wearing emotion mask, out of insecurity. Acting extremely cheerful, simply to cover the fact that you're dealing with something that you don't want anyone to know. Hiding themselves, fear of losing friends. Fear of prejudice. I'm afraid of people, not being to accept me, the way that I really am. I'm afraid of what they think of me, about me having feelings for a person from the same sex.
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#2 top rated interpretation:Using the metaphor for "making love" as "dancing", the song is about a girl who's insecure about her body and insists on making love in the dark so that he can't see it.
The lyrics "she looks good but her boyfriend says she's a mess / now the girl is stressed" and "she looks good but her boyfriend says she's a tramp/vamp / but she still kills the dance" suggest that the girls' insecurities spawn from her partner, saying that she actually does "look good", but her boyfriend tells her otherwise, causing her to develop insecurities.
When The Fame Monster was released, Gaga stated that each song related to a particular "monster", or "fear", such as "fear of love, fear of men, fear of death", etc. Although she's established Dance in the Dark as the "fear of sex" monster, I think it also really implies "fear of death" (which she said was "Speechless") during the breakdown where she mentions young female icons such as Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Sylvia Plath, JonBenét Ramsey, and Princess Diana, all of which met tragic fates and extremely young ages during the prime of their fame, which must have certainly stroke a chord with 24 year old Lady Gaga who was also becoming one of the world's biggest superstars at the time this was written/recorded. -
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#3 top rated interpretation:Dance in the Dark is about a woman making love to a man in the dark because she is afraid of what the man might think of her body.
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In an interview she speaks of a darkness or so called the devil speaking to her in a dream that is reoccurring. Said it scared her so bad she called the guru she has can’t remember his name that she called in middle of the night because it comes to her in a dream. Scary shit I think I would have called upon Jesus I don’t think I would have called upon Jesus .. I know I would have fell to my knees to pray. God almighty is the only way the truth and the light. Guru ain’t gonna help
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Alejandro
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Who are Sylvia and Benet Ramsey mentioned in the song?
Its still freaky, why does she mention KILLED GIRLS in her song??? I hear everywhere tha there are satanic songs, i get afraid of it.... so freaky..... -
My interpretation is ritual sex, only performed in the dark, and the fear of being watched
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It is about inspiring women who died in their prime.
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She is self conscious about her body when she is having sex with her boyfriend or whoever... http://www.mtv.ca/news/article.jhtml?id=23159
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