Mexico's Macabre Island of the Dolls Inspires Tim Burton and Lady Gaga

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Burton and Gaga's team negotiated to occupy the island and the surrounding properties for three days. They not only paid, they also donated dozens of dolls and materials to keep the place.

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Vanessa Arteaga / AFPThe macabre Isla de las Muñecas, in Mexico City, frightens many, but fascinated Lady Gaga and Tim Burton. The transgressor diva of pop and the monarch of American Gothic cinema combined visions and talent in the dark, but energetic, video clip of The Dead Dance. This anthem for dance tracks, whose audiovisual version directed Burton, declares his love for two expressions of mexicanity: the cult of the dead and the Isle of th…

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The macabre Isla de las Muñecas, in Mexico City, frightens many, but fascinated Lady Gaga and Tim Burton. The transgressor diva of pop and the monarch of American Gothic cinema combined visions and talent in the dark but energetic video clip of "The Dead Dance". This hymn for the dance tracks, whose audiovisual version directed Burton, declares his love to two expressions of mexicanity: the cult of the dead and the Isle of the Muñecas itself, lo…