Friday, March 12, 2010

Lady Gaga feat. Beyonce - Telephone

Seriously what the f*ck did I just watch?
Hmm... I hope not.
Yeah! I totally did not want to see that!

Fashion Wise (more info here)
So I don't understand why they chose to shoot one part of the video in a jail... I don't see the relation between the concept of telephone/partying and a jail. Anyway I'll just say it was the occasion for Lady Gaga to do a fashion show... Starting with her pair of cigarettes sunglasses. It seems they were lit cause you can see the smoke coming out.
Fierce!

When she entered the jail she had this very high padded-shoulder dress that reminded me a lot of what Rihanna was wearing in her Hard videoclip. She also had the small tape crosses-like we saw Rihanna sporting last year. Of course with those two ladies being at the top of the fashion wave, they're bound to share some similar fashion choices. Unfortunately for Lady Gaga, she didn't bother to wear a bra with her dress... 


She made some other very questionable fashion choices during the whole jail incident.  You can judge for yourself.
  

 
Update: fashion recap here
Now enters the queen Beyonce!
You guys know that the only reason I watched this was to see Beyonce. Unfortunately, when she entered the story, it got even more random... I really want to know what the creative director had been smoking before writing the script!!
 
 
 

Marketing
Lady Gaga displayed in broad daylight some branded products during the videoclip... I wonder how much plenty of fish paid to appear in this videoclip or if she chose the brands randomly.
 

Now if you still want to see it, head over here. I have to warn you though... It's over 9 mn!
The song is not so bad though... Usually the pv helps the song, but here it's the contrary.


7 comments:

  1. So this needs a long comment !
    As a avid reader of Dlisted, I first watched it on this website...and I couldn't understand how Beyonce got into this mess...Lady Gaga's power !
    Then I was watching the top 5 on MusiquePlus and the girls were so excited about the video that I thought that I should give it another try...well did not work !
    I'm sorry but I do not understand Lady Gaga and I know you're not supposed to understand art or even to find it beautiful but this is just too much ! I'm tired of seeing her dancing in underwear, and always trying to provoke (kissing girls, being naked, dancing in underwear, cigarette-sunglasses, acting like a crazy person, dancing like a cat crazy lady...)
    Anyways, the video is too long and not that avant-gardist.

    Beyonce wants to get on that bandwagon. The funniest part is when she says : Gaga you've been a very very bad person and that she feeds Lady Gaga as if she's her dog??
    And why would you want to kill your BF, just leave him. And why kill that many people...and more importantly what's the link with the lyrics?

    Finally, kudos to the marketing team! But I'm not that stupid, I'm not gonna buy Miracle Whip or Wonder Bread or have a Virgin cellphone. I'm getting tired of this "hidden" advertising !

    ok that's all....

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  2. It wasn't even that hidden.
    Iz is following Lady Gaga's on twitter and she showed me this yesterday... Someone who kinda analyzed the video, this person is a graduate student in literature so I guess she/he knows what she/he's talking about.
    http://onlywordstoplaywith.blogspot.com/2010/03/lady-gagas-telephone-observations-and.html

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  3. OMG, j'aurais jms pensé à tout ça...penses-tu que ce soit vraiment voulu comme elles le disent ou bien que c'est une analyse un peu trop poussé d'un clip f*cked up.

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  4. A vrai dire I didn't really read it, I just skimmed through it cause it's way too deep and long analysis for just a simple video-clip....

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  5. I totally agree with you guy's ! I think the screen writter smoke a very bad shit this day, maybe he wanted to try something else but this time it didnt work at all. WTH seriously, the music is shit, the lyrics are nonsense, and all the videoclip is bullshit, THAT'S NOT Art, that a showcase well made by a bunch of very goog marketers who finds a perfect plateforme to invest on. GAGA is a new Branding who try to brainwash you! But its too obvious! And as you say they didn't even try to hide it like they suppose you're so stupid cuz you're gonna buy them anyway! OH MARKETING ! OH CAPITALISM ! OH fuck I Love it !

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  6. I totally agree with you guy's ! I think the screen writter smoke a very bad shit this day, maybe he wanted to try something else but this time it didnt work at all. WTH seriously, the music is shit, the lyrics are nonsense, and all the videoclip is bullshit, THAT'S NOT Art, that a showcase well made by a bunch of very goog marketers who finds a perfect plateforme to invest on. GAGA is a new Branding who try to brainwash you! But its too obvious! And as you say they didn't even try to hide it like they suppose you're so stupid cuz you're gonna buy them anyway! OH MARKETING ! OH CAPITALISM ! OH fuck I Love it !

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