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And that all important final spot goes to 'Bloody Mary' with 8 nominations. Let the meltdowns begin for your lost faves cause 'Bloody Mary' has just buried them, sorry



"Bloody Mary" is a song by Lady Gaga, and produced by Fernando Garibay from Born This Way. "Bloody Mary" is also the name Gaga has for her car. An instrumental clip was used during Transmission Gagavision 42. According to Peter Robison at PopJustice, the song is a spooky rave ballad sung from the perspective of Mary Magdalene. Gaga revealed the song title in NME magazine. “Bloody Mary is quite subtle actually, it's a song about Mary being divine and human at the same time, with a subtext (maybe it's not even a subtext) about the role of a woman who is supposed to be a superstar and a real woman at the same time. Not life alteringly deep perhaps but it works as a pop song.”—Lady Gaga. NME magazine described the song as “A dark, pulsing and atmospheric, almost funeral electroballad, one of several tracks including ‘Judas’ with religious references.” Gaga also revealed the concept behind the song. “I believe that Mary Magdalene was both fully divine and fully human. She has to be strong when Jesus fulfills the prophecy to die for everyone’s sins, but she still has the moment of humanity where she’s upset to let him go. She had to be a superstar, but she must have cried too.”. On November 19, 2010, Gaga tweeted a part of the lyrics: “When Punk-tius comes to kill the King upon his throne, I'm ready for their stones”. Gaga tweeted that the song "is about living halfway between fantasy and reality", and that it was inspired by her car. On May 27, 2011 Gaga also tweeted about "Bloody Mary" saying: "(In the song) im struggling between fantasy+reality in bloody mary. it was inspired by my car and Mary Magdalene. (the ultimate rockstar's gf)" Sound engineer, Dave Russell revealed that the brief for the song was to make it sound "Avant-Garde". To achieve this they " kept it fairly minimal and open sounding, but gave it a lot of neck and swagger in the drums. (It should make [yo]u nod your head a lot) ".

And this song also happens to be another tour highlight of the extraordinary kind.



The Quarter Finalists:
1. 'Dance in the Dark'
2. 'Scheiße'
3. 'Monster'
4. 'Gypsy'
5. 'Venus'
6. 'Hair'
7. 'ARTPOP'
8. 'Government Hooker'
9. 'So Happy I Could Die'
10. 'Americano'
11. 'Sexxx Dreams'
12. 'Bloody Mary'