Just when it looked like the music charts and popular conscious had been thoroughly won over by easy listenin’ grime and the Glee soundtrack – Lady GaGa and Beyonce have returned to our airwaves with a little bit of help from Polaroid, Diet Coke and Virgin Mobile.
Yes. Telephone – the latest musical outing from BIGGEST POP STAR IN THE WORLD Lady GaGa…and the other BIGGEST POP STAR IN THE WORLD Beyonce – has arrived, with a ten minute meta – music video which references everything from those weird Virgin Mobile adverts with Kate Moss to Quentin Tarantino; with a healthy dose of thinly veiled metaphors about consumerism…or something, thrown in.
The Sharpener would love to give you, dear reader, a synposis of the video and narrative, but even after three views we’re just not entirely sure what’s going on. GaGa is in prison, the next minute she’s naked, then she’s sitting with Beyonce in a car eating a cake, then they’re in a diner, Gaga poisons them all…all the while Beyonce twitches and fits like a myxi rabbit, and Gaga wears a hairpiece in the shape of a phone.
We’re guessing it’s just too avant garde for the likes of us - after all, our idea of a good music video is Liberty X’s Just A Little Bit (so Matrix, so sexy).
zaran
2 years, 2 months ago
What a great video! – The song not so much.
Lengthy videos are always going to be seen as vanity projects. They are entirely unnecessary and in most case counter productive as they don’t fit the brief – to promote the single by getting the most repetitive plays possible on MTV etc.
The most recent one that springs to mind was the Justin Timberlake’s ‘what goes around comes around’ – what utter rubbish. 10 minutes of my life I will never get back.
Telephone is sexy(in a thrust upon/ non-conventional way) fresh, current and incredibly stylized. I love it. I want more music videos like this.
I am sure this is the first time an artist used their music video to prove that she wasn’t a man.