I want to see the To Be Continued! A LiveJournal commenter thinks Gaga and Beyonce will head for Mexico and do “Alejandro.” It’s slower than her other hits, but could be a good middle part if this were a trilogy.
I’d love to see “Monster” just because it could continue the exploitation feel of two women teaming up (with erotic undertones, because of course they must cat-fight, then kiss and make up) to take down the man who scorned them. Now too bad David Carradine had to go and pleasure himself to death. You know he’d beg for a cameo, even if there’s no room for any other stars.
Only one complaint: Nobody puts Beyonce in the corner. OK, that metaphor-allusion’s kind of a stretch, but that’s exactly how I felt when I saw her sing one of my favorite parts (5:35) while trying to drive the “Pu**y Wagon.” You can’t bust out “Boy, the way you blowin’ up my phone won’t make me leave no faster…” in such a confined space, even if it does make me want to buy a Polaroid camera!
Lady Gaga ft. Beyoncé - “Telephone”
— So many things going on here. I guess it’s best summed up in a bulleted list? (Also, the video might be NOT SAFE FOR WORK if your workplace frowns upon women dancing in spiked out lingerie):
- This isn’t so much as music video as it is a short film done as a homage to Quentin Tarantino. Look at the inclusion of the “P*ssy Wagon” from “Kill Bill” and the parallels to “Natural Born Killers” and “True Romance.”
- Lady Gaga goes from razor-blade glasses in “Bad Romance” to cigarette-butt glasses in “Telephone,” which I’ll even say is a dumb idea. I mean, seriously?
- Lady Gaga addresses the Internet rumors of her having a d*ck. Then makes out with a woman. Make of that what you will.
- Was that Kanye West’s girlfriend Amber Rose in the prison sequence?
- Apparently a female prison lets you have Virgin Mobile cellphones.
- Everyone seems to be doing the whole “spiked out” thing nowdays in the fashion couture world. Wasn’t that kind of played out when Hot Topic made it fashionable to high-school students in the early 2000s?
- Lady Gaga also plugs Polaroid, which she’s also the official spokesperson for.
- The video’s director, Jonas Åkerlund, has actually done some really great videos in the past.
- I don’t think anyone who’s heard “Telephone” before will be able to tell you the hook of the song after seeing this video.
Overall, it’s OK, but I don’t like it as much as “Bad Romance,” which I thought was her best video to date. She clearly wanted to do a short film homage rather than a music video.
