Lady Gaga's latest video Telephone, with Beyoncé Knowles, is utterly mindblowing. Here is the official, explicit version:
The video starts off with credits like the start of a film. Lady Gaga is led into prison, stripped of her clothes by guards, then climbs the fence like an animal while almost naked. One of the guards says "I told you she doesn't have a dick". This video is not for kids.
Cut scene - Lady Gaga walks around outside, with a mask of smoking cigarettes. One fight scene later, she's dancing around in her underwear with several other girls.
Then she's bailed out by ... Beyoncé. Driving in the Pussy Wagon from Kill Bill (apparently it really is the real Pussy Wagon form Kill Bill, and it was Quentin Tarantino's idea).
Gaga and Beyoncé then poison a man ... oh, and everyone else in the bar for good measure. Last thing you see is them driving off with the police on their tail, with the words "To be continued".
The video is filled - completely filled - with pop-culture references. MTV takes a look through them - they include:
- Batman
- Caged Heat
- Captain America & Wonder Woman
- Doom
- Double-Breasted Drive-Thru
- Natali Germanotta
- Hermaphrodite rumours
- High and Dry
- Michael Jackson
- The film "Kill Bill"
- LaChapelle
- Lava
- The film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- Madonna
- Russ Meyer
- Natural Born Killers
- Bettie Page
- Pulp Fiction
- Radio KUK
- Jai Rodriguez
- Semi Precious Weapons
- Thelma & Louise
- Shania Twain
- WNS News
There are also rather obvious product placements in there - Diet Coke and Virgin Mobile.
All in all, this will definitely go down as one of the most notable music videos of the year.
