Lady Gaga made her music video directorial debut with a 14-minute production which was met on Friday with a mix of weariness and adulation by fans and pop culture watchers.
Marry the Night sees the Grammy-winner making a trip to the hospital, dying her hair mint green, throwing Cheerios over her naked body and hanging upside down in a car — all in the eight minutes before the song comes in.
Gaga said the video was a portrait of the day she thought she saw her dreams slipping away from her when she was dropped from her first record label.
Michael Gragg, writing for the Guardian newspaper website, liked the fact that Lady Gaga was "embracing the ridiculous".
