new lady gaga video!

“Telephone” featuring Beyoncé off the album The Fame Monster.

the costuming is phenomenal but on the whole i think the video comes off as a hokey cross between Thelma and Louise, any Tarantino film and a commercial break. the video is driven almost entirely by product placements, featuring everything from chanel to coke to plentyoffish.com (??!) to polaroid to mayonnaise (???!!!), and that’s only a fraction of them. and when i don’t feel like it’s trying to sell me something, i feel like it’s just trying so hard to shock me. obviously lady gaga built her career on shocking, but she’s more compelling as a vague concept than as a specific character.