domingo, 14 de noviembre de 2010

Lady Gaga - Bad Romance

Learn vocabulary and grammar from this song:



CAUGHT IN A BAD ROMANCE= Trapped in a dysfunctional love relationship. It is bad for you, but you can't escape.
ROMA...= This is simply the beginning of the word "romance".
OH, LA LA!= a French expression to show surprise (="Oh my God!")
YOUR UGLY= The ugly part of you. Your dark side.
Here she's using the adjective "ugly" as a noun (instead of "ugliness"), which is not usual English, but this is her song and she says whatever she wants ;-)

YOUR DESEASE= The sick part of you (the psycho in you).
Disease is illness, but here it refers to mental sickness, not physical one.
AS LONG AS= if
YOUR DRAMA= The dramatic part of your life or the terrible part of you.

LEATHER STUDDED KISS= Leather is a material made out of the skin of some animals. In bondage (a kind of sex involving pain and submission) people wear black leather garments with metal pieces resembling buttons or tack heads called STUDS, so STUDDED LEATHER is a leather outfit with metal studs. A "leather studded kiss" is a kiss studded with leather, which doesn't mean anything (another Gaga's "poetical figure"), but somehow it means that she wants him to kiss her while wearing studded leather.
I WANT IT BAD= I want it very much.
(in the same way, "I love you so bad"means "I love you very very much")
REVENGE= Doing something wrong to someone in return of something wrong they did to you.

PSYCHO= A psycho is a psychopath (a person who is dangerously insane), but it can also be used as an adjective (a psycho man is a crazy man). So YOUR PSYCHO is used here as the other adjective we saw above ("Your ugly") and it means "I want the insane part of you).

YOUR VERTIGO SHTICK= (slang) a shtick is a special talent. This phrase is a reference to Alfred Hitchcock film "Vertigo", as well as the other parts here: "Psycho" and "Rear Window", but all of them also have a sexual meaning here.
YOU'RE SICK= You are insane, you desire very abnormal and bad things.
FREAK= very unnusual; abnormal; eccentric.

WANNA= Want to

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