Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande's "Rain On Me" Instagram filter, um, does not look like rain
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Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande were apparently not content with just dropping a new single today. In conjuction with the release of their new song “Rain On Me,” a new filter was released on Instagram so Little Monsters everywhere could make selfie videos of themselves also being rained on. Or should we say “rained on”?
Once the initial excitement over the song died down, it didn’t take long for people on Twitter to start commenting on how the filter looked less like rain streaming down your face and more like…a bodily fluid. It’s unclear if this was intentional—Gaga is not shy about being sex-positive and Grande’s “Side To Side” is literally about not being able to walk correctly the next morning—but the filter has certainly raised a lot of eyebrows.
Most comments are NSFW, but here’s just a small sample of the reactions:
Based on the lyrics, one would assume the rain is tears…or a metaphor for letting go of pain? Unclear. But our review of “Rain On Me” was featured in today’s A-Sides:
Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande, “Rain On Me”
[Interscope, May 22]
Lady Gaga feat. Beyoncé? Fantastic. Beyoncé feat. Lady Gaga? Not as fantastic. Mother Monster collaborations are no guaranteed success, but Gaga’s new duet with Ariana Grande is a Pride party distilled in a single song. “Rain On Me” kicks off with a classic Gaga verse as it ramps up to a chorus that sounds like it’s already been remixed for the dance floor. The song—off Gaga’s upcoming Chromatica (May 29)—is at its best once Grande joins in, her airy vocals a nice contrast to Gaga’s talk-singing and the pumping bass. Bonus: no uncomfortable sexual tension like with Gaga’s last duet.
Maybe we spoke too soon about that sexual tension.
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100% pure shite
After staring at if for a while, other things come to mind as well-Bird droppings that have been collecting on my car.-Black oil aliens from The X-Files-Lines of code overlaying faces in The Matrix
You had me at “X-Files”
*monocle explodes*
Personally, I’m clutching my pearl necklace.
Please remember to wash your hands for at least 20 minutes with boiling hot lava.
If Gaga isn’t careful, people will start associating her with sex. On the other hand, for Grande, this might help people forget about Pete Davidson.
Unfortunately the ad that aired on YouTube this afternoon before the video premiered (at least for me) was for Davidson’s new movie.
You know, Instagram turned into a hardcore-sex social media platform so gradually, I didn’t even notice!
I got a bukkake alert for this?
Bukkake!!!!!!
We were denied Gaga’s original filter. It used golden raindrops.
That’s ‘cause R. Kelly threatened to sue.
To be fair, he’s got some upcoming legal costs and needs the money.
She’s saving that for the remix – where she teams up once again with R. Kelly! (cos that went down so well the first time around …)
PENDING APPROVAL
More like Bukake Grande, amirite
Lady Coughcough
Lady Gaga feat. Beyoncé? Fantastic. Beyoncé feat. Lady Gaga? Not as fantasticHuh. Well I always knew I was in the minority cos I actually really liked Beyonce + Gaga’s “Videophone” and its Reservoir Dogs homage video … but didn’t care at all for Gaga + Beyonce’s “Telephone”
“Oh, I’m sorry. I must have accidentally turned on an Instagram filter.”“This is Zoom!”
“Also, we don’t think that sex-dungeon background screen is very professional.”“Yes … background screen.”
So just to be clear, they haven’t massacred a classic song by The Who?
LMFAO. This is hilarious.
Watch
Phil Collins – I Wish It Would Rain Down
on YouTube. Far less decadence and far more talent.
Japanese Bukkake porn goes mainstream…
Wow, I didn’t see that coming.
Unless they outsourced designing the filter to a monastery, no way there wasn’t someone involved who knew exactly what they were doing.