A Familiar Vehicle
Lady Gaga’s much-hyped new video for “Telephone” received its world premiere on E! Thursday night. The clip for Gaga’s duet with Beyoncé moves from an all-women’s prison to a killing spree at a diner to (what else?) dancing. Directed by Jonas Akerlund, the video also features an appearance from actor Tyrese Gibson and a certain vehicle on loan from Quentin Tarantino and his Kill Bill movies. Co-written by Gaga and Akerlund, the video also contains a surprising barrage of product placements…even Gaga’s Dr. Dre earbud headphones make an appearance.
Speaking to E! News, Gaga said of the 9+ minute video, “There’s certainly always a hidden message in my music videos. But I would say most predominately, I’m always trying to convolute everyone’s idea of what a pop music video should be.” MTV dubbed the high-budget, 9-minute extravaganza a “hyperkinetic pop-culture joyride” with homages to films like Caged Heat and Kill Bill. In fact, director Quentin Tarantino acted as a kind of consultant on the video. She also revealed that it was Tarantino’s idea to include his Kill Bill automobile, after she met the director and told him the concept for the clip. “We were having lunch one day in Los Angeles and I was telling him about my concept for the video and he said, ‘You gotta use the Pussy Wagon!’,”—which is what Beyoncé uses to whisk Gaga out of prison.
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Akerlund also directed the video for “Paparazzi,” and Gaga said of the director, “There was this really amazing quality in ‘Paparazzi,’ where it kind of had this pure pop music quality but at the same time it was a little bit of commentary on fame culture. I wanted to do the same thing with this video — take a decidedly pop song, which on the surface has a quite shallow meaning, and turn it into something deeper: the idea that America is full of young people that are inundated with information and technology and turn it into something that is more of a commentary on the kind of country that we are.”
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Mike • 1 year ago
I did want to say something here yesterday. I don’t enjoy Lady Gaga’s music all that much, but the videos are pretty entertaining.
larry • 1 year ago
Entertaining indeed. The woman keeps pushing the boundaries – hence her hoo-hah flash – kind of speaks for femininity. It has been a while since anyone has made a big of a deal about any music video.
here is an interesting article which looks at the decline of the MTV, music video/music industry, http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/16/music.videos.future/index.html?eref=rss_showbiz&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_showbiz+%28RSS%3A+Entertainment%29