The promo to `Born This Way` sees the 24-year-old pop star give birth while sitting above the earth, and she confesses the idea was inspired by surrealist painters and the idea of creating a new type of human.
She said: "It`s very inspired by, especially in the beginning, Salvador Dali and Francis Bacon. The surrealist painters. It`s this story about the birth of this new race, a race that bears no prejudice and a race that`s primary ambition in life is to inspire unity and togetherness.
"It`s very symbolic this video. And the visuals are really stunning and the video is beautiful. It`s very meaningful to me. And the song is very meaningful to me."
The track has come under criticism in some quarters for sounding similar to Madonna`s early 90s song `Express Yourself`, but Gaga is happy to admit the 52-year-old pop icon is an influence on her music.
When questioned on UK station Radio 1 on whether Madonna is an inspiration, Gaga, 24, said: "Of course she is, and so were so many of the artists from the 90s. That era of music was the transfusion of gospel and pop, R&B and dance music. I wanted to do something that was very risky and that in a lot of ways was extremely modern but in a way puts its middle finger up at modernity and says, `This is to empowerment.` "
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