Lady Gaga has always been a woman of her own style with catchy songs and crazy outfits. She is highly remembered for standing out and always being different from the “norm.”
Her latest music video is no different.
Gaga recently released a new song, "Til it Happens to You," with an emotional, yet incredible
video. Her video shows the absolute horrors of sexual assault, something that happens far too often on college campuses these days. This graphic video shows four women experiencing what some women nationwide experience every single day. It shows statistics, like that one in five women will be sexually assaulted this year, that may be hard to believe and even harder to hear. This video is unsetting, hard to watch, emotional, and absolutely brilliant. It is important to bring attention to the issue and spark a change in something that will seemingly never vanish from college campuses. At the end of her video, she provides the number for the National Sexual Assault Hotline and asks her viewers to “join the movement."
The song itself is about showing respect to victims of rape and understanding that, until it happens to you, you will never understand what it’s like. The video shows the constant struggle that these women go through after being victims of sexual assault, but ends on a positive note as women walk through the hallway, hand in hand with their supporters. Victims of sexual assault deserve more than surface-level comforting. They need and deserve strong love and support.
A combination of raising awareness and sparking a change for what really happens on college campuses, and standing by the women it has happened to, is truly what it means to join the movement. A portion of money earned from the song’s sales will be donated to organizations helping survivors of sexual assault.
Check out Lady Gaga’s masterpiece here:
