14 DAY TRIAL // One of the songs included on the recently released “The Fame Monster,” Lady Gaga’s latest album that was initially meant to be a repackaged edition of “Fame” is “Dance in the Dark.” Very catchy and heavy in ‘80s disco accents, the track is not just for fun, Lady Gaga says in a recent interview with MTV. It’s also about pain and learning to deal with insecurity.
Gaga has often spoken about her outrageous onstage and public persona, saying that it wasn’t just an act, as many speculated. Gaga is everything that we see, a woman not afraid to break boundaries and challenge people’s perception of “normal,” and, most importantly, a woman who uses her body and fashion to make that statement. Yet, this is not to say that she doesn’t have insecurities of her own, she now reveals – and this is precisely what “Dance in the Dark” is all about.
The song is clearly about a woman who is afraid and ashamed to show her body to her man, unless the lights are out. Whenever the lights are turned off, she can unleash her “inner animal,” Gaga says, but not when there’s light in the room, for the simple reason that she is very insecure about her body. However, this is not where the message of the song stops, because Gaga also wants her fans to know that it’s OK to have insecurities as long as they don’t let them run their life.
“She doesn’t feel free without the moon. These lyrics are a way for me to talk about how I believe women and some men feel innately insecure about themselves all the time. It’s not sometimes, it’s not in adolescence, it’s always. [T]he song isn’t called ‘Dance in the Light.’ I’m not a gospel singer trying to cross people over. What I’m saying is, ‘I get it. I feel you, I feel the same way, and it’s OK’,” Gaga explains for MTV.
“And it applies to everyone, regardless of whether you have a string of Billboard chart toppers or you’re listening to the track in your car. Though acknowledging that she’s in a ‘deeper, more compassionate place’ since writing her debut album, “The Fame,” Gaga made clear that she continues to struggle with issues of body image and self-doubt in her own life,” MTV goes on to say after talking with the singer.