Lady Gaga explores her mental health struggles in the music video for single 911. The song documents the pop super star’s experiences with anti-psychotic medication and Gaga described the accompanying short film as “the poetry of pain”.
The heavily symbolic video begins with a masked Gaga awaking in the middle of a desert, lying next to a broken bicycle and pomegranates.
She follows a mysterious figure in black riding a horse, who leads her to a village populated with people in colourful robes.
911’s beat kicks in before another change in scenery. A crying Gaga lies injured in the middle of a car accident on an urban street, as figures from earlier in the music video attempt to save her life. “I don’t want to die,” the singer begs.