Post by No Personality on Mar 12, 2010 13:26:55 GMT -5
In her first music video with real dialogue in it (English dialogue), Lady Gaga shows off some semi-impressive acting skills as she discusses with Beyonce some vague plans involving killing and food. And, if I'm to take her correctly- cooking. Before that, she takes a bite out of some phallic fast food article Beyonce sticks in her face, symbolic of the fact that we all know these two women will never make out together (ala- the Britney/Madonna/Christina sandwich at Mtv's 2003 VMA's). However, it's a moment that is shocking at first because... Beyonce seems to be really getting into it. "You've been a very bad girl. A very, very bad, bad girlGaGa." (Yes, one world, "girl" & "Gaga") Then, they start talking cryptically about mirrors. And of course, the unabashedly foul-mouthed (it's fun, isn't it?) Gaga is the one who has to say "motherfucker." If Beyonce did it, it might screw with her image.
If truth be told, "Bad Romance" was a good move for her career. Both as a piece of interesting pop art and as a pop song which doesn't always reveal itself as insanely catchy and unforgettable right away, that eventually burns into you in a way you can't explain nor you want to stop. But this "Telephone" video, the perfect example of the no-class-all-trash aesthetic that mars her contemporaries, is a huge step backward. With the exception of an outfit made of her own skin and yellow Police crime-scene tape, this entire thing is a waste. Of time and of money. An utterly meaningless collection of movie references done as though Gaga and Beyonce hopped in a pile of ghastly new-millennium thrift-shop oddities and became the garbage creature from Fraggle Rock. This video may reference Thelma & Louise, any number of biker & prison movies, or Quentin Tarantino, but even at its' fashion-exploitation flick best- this thing is pointless.
Don't bother. Let it ring.