Lady Gaga reveals very personal meaning behind her incredible new 911 music video

Lady Gaga has dropped the music video for her single 911, revealing the very personal inspiration behind the surrealist clip with a dark twist.

Directed by Tarsem Singh Dhandwar — a video of the year winner at the MTV VMA’s for REM’s Losing My Religion — the visual feast features white sandy dunes, lip-syncing, slow motion voguing and multiple costume changes.

But it takes a dark turn when Gaga wakes up at the scene of a near-death car crash and is shocked back to life, telling the paramedic “I didn’t have my pills”.

The video is based on Sergei Parajanov’s 1969 Soviet art film The Color of Pomegranates and the 34-year-old shed further light on its significance via social media.

“This short film is very personal to me, my experience with mental health and the way reality and dreams can interconnect to form heroes within us and all around us,” Gaga wrote on Instagram.

“It’s been years since I felt so alive in my creativity to make together what we did with “911”. Thank you @Bloodpop for taking a leap of faith with me to produce a record that hides in nothing but the truth.

“Finally, thank you little monsters. I’m awake now, I can see you, I can feel you, thank you for believing in me when I was very afraid. Something that was once my real life everyday is now a film, a true story that is now the past and not the present.”

“It’s the poetry of pain.”

In an interview with Apple Music in May, the pop singer spoke about the meaning of the song, which appears on the Chromatica album.

“It’s about an antipsychotic that I take. And it’s because I can’t always control things that my brain does. I know that. And I have to take medication to stop the process that occurs,” she said.