Comments on: "Video Phone": Watching and Being Watched

By: Cory

Cory — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:05:43 +0000

I feel as if this particular collaboration is somehow connected to their collaboration on Gaga's Telephone from Fame Monster. I personally thought that Video Phone was one of the weakest (by which I mean irritating to me personally) tracks from I Am…Sasha Fierce and not necessarily suited to become a single (but what do I know, I've been listening almost exclusively to the Glee soundtrack), but because Beyonce guested on Telephone, it was an opportunity to increase revenue/cache/relevance/buzz/whatever, mostly by just absolutely confusing the fuck out of people looking for a song with both Lady Gaga and Beyonce.

I have no idea what the production timetable for something like this is, but I have this adorable mental image of the two of them concocting this scheme at the VMAs. Lady Gaga leaning forward to whisper in Beyonce's ear and getting her wreath caught in Beyonce's weave and then Perez Hilton has to help untangle them.

Or something like that.

By: sunnyciegos

sunnyciegos — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:37:58 +0000

I'm lost as to the purpose of this track at all. Talk about saturation. I'm not sure how this appearance helps Beyonce or Gaga. The song is totally forgettable too, and its timing seems to compete with Gaga's Bad Romance. They didn't even give Paparazzi enough time to sink into the consciousness, and that video was for-serious pop art.

/pays too much attention

By: davidwatts

davidwatts — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:40:11 +0000

okay, okay, she CAN actually sing, i take that part back. Let's say that she DOESN'T actually sing, on this track.

By: davidwatts

davidwatts — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:37:58 +0000

Gaga can't really sing, and she doesn't look all that great without all her art/props/headgear. As such, this collabo is kind of a lose-lose from her point of view, except that it improbably INCREASES her already near-saturation-level exposure, and isn't her whole "pop-art" career basically just about attaining the maximum amount of fame? That, and giving gay men something to listen to between Pink Martini records.

By: josh_speed

josh_speed — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:02:16 +0000

I heart Beyonce, and yet the audio is giving me anomie, and the video is giving me photo-sensitive epilepsy.

By: p is for pee

p is for pee — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:01:23 +0000

1. The camera-head men revert into blue-screen heads! This is like combining the making-of into the original, but really fucking sly.

2. Guns! Lady Gaga has already killed two men in her music videos (Paparazzi, Bad Romance). I LOVE IT.

3. Beyonce's skin gets way whiter when she turns into Bettie Page, but you know, brighter exposure?

By: Tom McGeveran

Tom McGeveran — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:41:41 +0000

For years I thought I had imagined that Sinead O'Connor-Karen Finley collaboration.