Manifesto of Mother Monster

The Manifesto of Mother Monster is a speech by Lady Gaga.

It debuted at the beginning of the music video for "Born This Way" (2011). Gaga herself does the narration of the speech while "Vertigo Prelude and Rooftop” by Bernard Herrmann plays. The song is from the score of Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film, Vertigo.

The Manifesto was reused in a shortened form with new backdrop music during The Born This Way Ball. It was done by Mother G.O.A.T., a giant animatronic recreation of Lady Gaga's face in a diamond shaped prism spoke it as an interlude between the performances of "Bloody Mary" and "Bad Romance."

Transcript

Transcript of the music video version, for the tour version, see Mother G.O.A.T..

“	This is the manifesto of Mother Monster On G.O.A.T. A Government Owned Alien Territory in space A birth of magnificent and magical proportions took place But the birth was not finite It was infinite As the wombs numbered And the mitosis of the future began It was perceived that this infamous moment in life is not temporal It is eternal And thus began the beginning of the new race A race within the race of humanity A race which bears no prejudice No judgment But boundless freedom But on that same day As the eternal mother hovered in the multiverse Another more terrifying birth took place The birth of evil And as she herself split into two Rotating in agony between two ultimate forces The pendulum of choice began its dance It seems easy, you imagine To gravitate instantly and unwaveringly towards good But she wondered "How can I protect something so perfect without evil?"	”
—Lady Gaga

Trivia

This is Gaga’s second Manifesto, the first being Manifesto of Little Monsters, first seen in the Book of Gaga and later, played at The Monster Ball.

Manifesto of Mother Monster

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