Lady Gaga needs her own thread

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The Legend of Gaga Vance

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warning: right-wing religious homophobia

http://videogum.com/archives/parodies/god_hates_lady_gaga_111821.html

the video within, not the link. gabe's great obv

omg the little "god hates you" poorly done background voice in the first verse cracked my shit up

"Speechless" is in my head to stay, but before I know it I'm singing Westlife's "Swear it again". Surely I can't be the only one??

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can't believe how good "Telephone" is. The Fame Monster at large is pretty amazing, it almost makes me want to forgive the likes of LoveGame and theBeautiful Dirty Rich for their indiscretions

B-b-but "Love Game" is fantastic!

n-n-no

'telephone' video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ95z6ywcBY

coulda been better , eh?

wasn't as good as Paparazzi or Bad Romance. Camp can't just be camp, it has to be done exceedingly well and this came off as a bit film student project.

yeah, like they lost direction about 1/3 of the way thru

i feel like Videophone was a lot better than this

absurd amounts of product placement in this (including lol polaroid)

definitely came dangerously close to being a Virgin commercial.

started to press play until i saw 9:32 on the time display, fuck outta here gaga

why does caring about making good videos always inevitably translate to making tediously long videos where half of it doesn't even have any music

she looks disarmingly winehouse-ish in parts

that was a bit of a mess. chopping up the song so much is annoying, the dialogue is heavy-handed and unfunny camp, the thelma & louise stuff a massive cliché and the whole sexy-lesbian-prisoner aesthetic makes me cringe a bit. shoulda been so much better!

(really like the song though.)

Version of this from the J Ross show last week was pretty stomping

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtYDN-kCjJ4

why does caring about making good videos always inevitably translate to making tediously long videos where half of it doesn't even have any music

― some dude, Thursday, March 11, 2010 11:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

this is otm

i dunno, i was pretty entertained.

why does caring about making good videos always inevitably translate to making tediously long videos where half of it doesn't even have any music

― some dude, Thursday, March 11, 2010 11:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

this is otm

― hitler runoff (J0rdan S.), Friday, March 12, 2010 9:06 AM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark

always with weirdly awkward dialogue

this would be awesome if you cut out all the non singing bits

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should really be disgusted by this turn of events cf minaj thread but somehow with beyonce i have to kind of relish the immediate & brutal signature chokehold on any new bitch in the game. this is a stick-up, stick-up, i need them bags or that moneyyyy~~~~

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dialogue is delib stilted in this vid tho surely plax..? unless you were talking about ships n sarge, in which case i have no explanation.

been listening to fame monster a lot lately and have concluded that 1/ there is no validity in any hipster free pass that remarks favourably on the dire and unnecessary 'speechless', and 2/ based on his work here redone stands up to any pantheon of producer/muse conceptual synergy ever, he's fantastic.

well like i said i haven't even watched the thing yet, just the length discouraged me from getting excited about the YOUTUBE WORLD PREMIERE and i'll just watch it when it's on MTV Hits instead. but "Paparazzi" is one of my least favorite videos by her so my hopes weren't really high anyway.

yah alright man no shots fired! fwiw 'paparazzi' does nothing for me either.

ok lmao @ all of this, especially the point where the song finally starts, all the dialogue in the car, and Black Ty getting third billing for coughing for 30 seconds and then dying

I dug this. I don't really watch music videos, though, so it was more like, hey cool, 10-minute movie with Gaga and Beyonce that features their song. The gleeful borrowing of B-movie tropes felt very Tarantino to me -- and this was before the Pussy Wagon even showed up.

B thought she was doing Jackie Brown but she was still Foxy Cleopatra

Thought the two of them were more like Vernita Green/Beatrix Kiddo.

rtc plz explain your distaste for the great "speechless"!!

well basically i guess it strikes me as a demonstration of her hokey vegas cabaret side that's needlessly explicit in comparison to how the furious intuitive synthesis of the uptempo europop stuff works (stuff which covers the 'speechless' ground just the same anyway imo). i can see the argument for it working in conceptual concert with the other songs, or even just as a change of pace on the album, but it seems strange if not outright suspect to me why anyone would foreground that track in particular as evidence of something new or worthwhile in gaga's oeuvre.

also i think it sucks.

yeah i'll get with that last thing you said - i do like it as a distilled one-off of her usually more subtle showtunish side. don't think i could deal with an entire album of them but i like it for what it is

lol and this is an xp

leaving aside 'teeth' maybe do you really find it so great you'd take it over any other of the tracks on the album?

it seems strange if not outright suspect to me why anyone would foreground that track in particular as evidence of something new or worthwhile in gaga's oeuvre.

― r|t|c, Friday, March 12, 2010 4:11 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

agreed insofar as i find it par for the course, as opposed to great.

no love for Teeth = no credibility

'teeth' in comparison i can leave up to personal preference - just not my style i guess - but again would you hold it up to the other 6 songs that aren't 'speechless'? those two tracks seem to me to be an aside from the tru meat of what makes fame monster awesome.

Teeth is definitely a stylistic aside, but i find the songwriting and vocal performance in it so genuine as to stand ground beside the other tracks. The retro styling isn't as contrived as it is on Speechless.

plus it's fun to sing

always lol @ the lyric " i cannot text u with a drink in my hand, eh "

haha that reminds me that i forgot to get round to mentioning lex being otm on the ilm poll thread about always hearing "je veux ton amour I DONT WANNA BE FREEENCH" on bad romance

I think I mentioned on Singles Jukebox that I am almost positive that it's "cannot text you while drinking my henney" but idk, I need to listen to a live performance and see if it's clearer there.

"There was this really amazing quality in 'Paparazzi,' where it kind of had this pure pop music quality but at the same time it was a little bit of commentary on fame culture," she said of her first hook-up with director Jonas Åkerlund, who also helmed the "Telephone" mini-movie. "I wanted to do the same thing 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 is more of a commentary on the kind of country that we are."

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