Telephone - Lady GaGa ft Beyonce

Lady Gaga: Telephone

-The actual song is okay, but a little too techno for my taste. I’m sure her demo will eat this song up. I don’t like the heavy use of pumping techno beat. The song gets a little better with Beyonce.

-Did you notice the multiple shots of Gaga’s crotch? I guess she had something to prove about her not having a penis. Count how many times they cut to her crotch in the first half of the video.

-The music is closely related to the super long music videos/short movies that Michael Jackson used to make in the 80s and early 90s. That is the portion of the video I enjoyed the most.

-What is up with the stupid blue Telephone hat that Gaga is wearing?

-The Wiki page states that this song was originally written for Britney Spears. And, if you listen closely to the song, it does have a Spears sound to it. At one point, Spears was considered to join Gaga in the song, but Beyonce was chosen instead. Beyonce is the better choice anyway, because she can actually sing unlike Spears.

-Did Lady Gaga just kill an entire diner full of people? And, the creepy part is they start dancing around the diner with the dead bodies displayed all round. WTF? While the video is interesting, what was the point of the mass-murder? I can see them killing (Always Coco-Cola dude) Transformer dude, but murdering the entire diner seems like overkill.

As far as the whole product is concerned, I enjoyed this little short film. It had some nice stylistic moments here and there, but I was little disturbed with the mass-murder portion of the video. Plus, when she isn’t wearing all those really stupid outfits, she isn’t that bad to look at body-wise (Gaga). But, Beyonce blows her out of the water in the looks department.

Not bad, Lady Gaga. I wish more artists would make these long-form music videos.

Grade: B-

Album version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiJ4DdOZrRU