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The music video opens with a bang as Gaga arrives at a rural prison, her platinum-blonde hair paired with a black-and-white striped bodycon dress featuring pointed sleeves sharp enough to take out an eye.

The striped socks of the Wicked Witch of the East show up as wavy versions in Shiz University uniforms.

In the video he is wearing dark pants, a jacket and a black-and-white striped shirt.

"Memory hurts, memory helps, memory guides… without memory you have no history, no experience, no point of reference," he said, as survivors listened on, many of them wearing blue-and-white striped scarves to symbolise prisoners' clothing.

In below freezing temperatures, the prisoners were dressed only in their thin striped uniforms with just wooden shoes on their feet.