14 DAY TRIAL // Lady Gaga doesn’t do things by the book, unless said book is one that she gets to write herself. After building up hype for her latest video, a collaboration with Beyonce called “Telephone,” and literally causing a splash online with its release, the singer is now taking the time to explain the message behind the violent clip, as Rap-Up can confirm.
The video, shot by Jonas Åkerlund who also did Gaga’s “Paparazzi” vid (yet another short film), based on a script by Åkerlund and the singer herself, tells the story of two highly fashionable women / convicts who go on a killing spree. Shot in vibrant colors and featuring Gaga next to a very foul-mouthed Beyonce, the vid seems a bit hard to swallow at first but fans shouldn’t worry because, though it might not seem so, there’s a deeper meaning to it, says Gaga.
“I’m always trying to convolute everyone’s idea of what a pop music video should be. I wanted to do the same thing [as ‘Paparazzi’] 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 was more of a commentary on the kind of country that we are,” Gaga explains in an interview with E! Online.
In the same interview, which you will find in the clip embedded below, Gaga also explains how she came to have the Pussy Wagon, which appears in Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill: Volume 1,” included in the story and how it was like to work with Beyonce again. “I was very excited to be working with Beyonce again. It just sort of works out because we both like women,” Gaga states more or less joking.
As fans must know, this is not the first time Gaga and Beyonce join forces for a musical collaboration. A short while ago, the two shot together a video for one of B’s tracks, “Videophone,” though, by comparison, that one was bland, to say the least.