Gaga dials in epic performance with 9.5 minute music video
Lady Gaga debuted her hotly anticipated concept music video “Telephone” Thursday, a nearly 10-minute long Miracle Whip-infused dance party with a side of mass murder and Beyonce.
The pop star teamed with “Paparazzi” director Jonas Akerlund and the "Single Lady" singer for the ambitious vid, which premiered on E! and dropped online late Thursday.
"There's certainly always a hidden message in my music videos,” Gaga told E! News. “But I would say most predominately, I'm always trying to convolute everyone's idea of what a pop music video should be.”
The captivating film is an achievement that both the pop star’s fans and those who may not be so gaga on the lady can appreciate, especially when Beyonce in Bettie Page bangs and a star-spangled pin-up dress joins a hippified Gaga -- also in red, white and blue -- to dance across the crime scene they’ve created out of an iconic diner.
The pair has just poisoned everyone in the room, a collective punishment of sorts after none of the diners has stood up to Tyrese Gibson, who makes his cameo by sexually harassing the women and bullying the men.
The massacre comes after Beyonce has just poured poison in Gibson's coffee cup and follows a dance scene where Gaga uses Miracle Whip, Wonder bread and vials of poison as props as she’s acting out an infomercial.
In Gaga’s interview with E! News, the singer said she consulted with vengeance-film director extraordinaire Quentin Tarantino to sound out her ideas on the project. The director also lent Gaga the “Pu*** Wagon” from “Kill Bill” to use in her video.
"There certainly is a Tarantino-inspired quality in the video," Gaga told E!
The video also features new Gaga fashion firsts like sunglasses made from cigarette butts and Diet Coke-can hair curlers.
It's like Christmas morning here at the Ministry -- Lady Gaga and Beyonce have unveiled the music video for their latest collaboration, "Telephone," directed by Jonas Akerlund. Gaga beyonce telephone Where to begin with such a visual feast, packed with fantastic fashion, girl fights, poisoned diner food, an army of headpieces and lots of Gaga goodness?
We gave you a taste a few weeks ago; now you can devour the full clip (like the apple fritter the girls feast on in the vid) above.We're partial to Gaga's pet name for Beyonce ("Honey Bee"), the cameos from Tyrese Gibson and Jai Rodriguez, and the early confirmation that Gaga does not, in fact, have boy parts.
And that's to name only a few.
-- Matt Donnelly
Check out the video premiere of Lady Gaga and Beyonce’s new music video for “Telephone.”
It was helmed by director Jonas Åkerlund, who also directed Gaga’s “Paparazzi” video with True Blood hunk Alexander Skarsgard.
The vid also features Tyrese Gibson and the “Pussy Wagon” truck, which was loaned out by Kill Bill director Quentin Tarantino.
WHAT DO YOU THINK of Gaga and Beyonce’s new vid — HOT or NOT?
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