Lady Gaga explores her mental health struggles in the music video for her new single, 911.
The song documents the pop superstar’s experiences with anti-psychotic medication and Gaga described the accompanying short film as “the poetry of pain”.
The heavily symbolic video, directed by Tarsem Singh, begins with a masked Gaga awaking in the middle of a desert, lying next to a broken bicycle and pomegranates.
She follows a mysterious figure in black riding a horse, who leads her to a village populated with people in colourful robes.
Gaga, 34, said: “This short film is very personal to me, my experience with mental health and the way reality and dreams can interconnect to form heroes within us and all around us.”
The Oscar and Grammy-winning singer said Singh had shared a 25-year-old idea with her because “my life story spoke so much to him”.
She added: “Finally, thank you little monsters. I’m awake now. I can see you, I can feel you. Thank you for believing in me when I was very afraid.
“Something that was once my real-life every-day is now a film, a true story that is now the past and not the present. It’s the poetry of pain.”
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