14 DAY TRIAL // It’s no longer a secret that the Internet can make things happen, things that many would have deemed impossible a while back – and it’s all thanks to the fans who come up with such wonderful, albeit wacky, ideas. A new Facebook group aims to get 1,000,000 friends in a petition to have legendary actress Meryl Streep included in one of Lady Gaga’s upcoming videos.
Created by a young UCLA graduate, the group aims to do just what its name implies: “1,000,000 for Meryl Streep to Star in Lady Gaga’s next vid!” Though the idea might seem absurd at first, the group already lists over 7,500 members and is growing at incredible speed. This, in turn, has prompted many to say that the idea might actually become real one day, not in spite of but precisely because it’s so wacky.
“This group is a petition to encourage a Meryl Streep / Lady Gaga collaboration. If Meryl Streep stars in Gaga’s next video many of us will be able to die happy. Let’s see if we can get a MILLION people to join this group and send a strong message to Meryl Streep & Gaga: ‘We are madly in love with both of you. Please work together’,” reads the description of the Facebook group. Should this idea ever come to life, it will certainly be quite a unique collaboration.
In the meantime, though, Gaga’s latest collab, with Beyonce for the “Telephone” video, a single included on Gaga’s album, has gotten off to an incredible start, despite getting the cold shoulder from many television networks. The 9.32-minute long video, more of a short film than a music video, is getting millions of hits online but can’t be played on television because of its violent nature and the outfits the two singers (and not only) don in it. So far, MTV is the only network to have stepped forward to deny claims that it had banned the clip, as previous reports suggested.
“In the wake of reports that surfaced over the weekend claiming that MTV had banned Lady Gaga’s nearly 10-minute-long video for ‘Telephone,’ a spokesperson for the channel clarified the situation on Monday (March 15). MTV did not ban Lady Gaga and Beyonce’s ‘Telephone’ video – in fact, we premiered it on Friday, March 12, on-air and online at MTV.com, two days before this story was falsely reported,’ said MTV Executive Vice President of Music and Talent Amy Doyle. ‘Fans can continue to catch the video as we repeat it on-air and online.’ Music videos generally air on MTV weekdays between 3 a.m. and 10 a.m.,” MTV writes in one of today’s articles.