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 Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 4:29 am
Much love for the "Told you she didn't have a d**k," line.
Beyond the insanity and the QT love, what I really love about the video is that Gaga is finally unleashing her queer side instead of just alluding to it in interviews. It gets so annoying when all these female celebutants start talking about being bisexual or whatever after Lindsay Lohan's disasterous relationship with Samantha Ronson (I honestly feel for the girl about that and her reptile of a father) and it's a gimmick to boost sex appeal.
Telephone is no glossy, glammy ode to kissing a girl to get your man all fired up. It's dirty, dykey fun that reclaims lesploitation and turns it on it's ear. This is not weird for the sake of weird. Gaga has a very idiosyncratic artistic vision that is quite unlike anything the pop world has ever seen before. That vision and the iconoclastic dialectic behind it aren't for everyone, which is fair. It's also fair to say that she commands a lot of attention. That's what pop is all about, but the question is what the attention is for and what she's using it for.
The media has not been kind to her. She's routinely called ugly and accused of having a p***s. She's had every sling and arrow imaginable flung at her but far from buckling and breaking she refuses to compromise her vision or soften her image. Instead she poses with a d***o on a magazine cover to tell off her detractors. She doesn't act like a freak. She is a freak and she's out there being freaky to give her little monsters something to rally around.
Gender issues, especially the ones that Gaga is embroiled in hit home very hard for me because I'm in the process of slowly coming out as transgendered with the help of some very supportive friends. The transphobia that lurks behind the "She has a d**k!" hysteria is absolutely mortifying to me. It's the kind of thing that makes people want to flee to the darkest corner of their closets. But Gaga didn't abandon us. She didn't take the easy way out and refute the rumours by any conventional means. Instead she risked her career and public image by insisting that she be allowed to wear a strap on for her cover shoot with Q magazine.
When I first saw that cover, I almost burst into tears because there she was standing up for me and what I am during the hardest time in my life so far and it's only going to get harder from here on it but having her in my corner is going to make it just a little bit easier.
Not that I don't like Weapon of Choice. It was a lot of fun, but it did not have the p***y Wagon, cigarette sunglasses, hair phones, or Lady Gaga's butt.
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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 11:22 am
Maybe I should give Telephone a watch. I always approve of QT references and the use of bisexuality to boost sex appeal has long been a pet peeve of mine. (Not just in the media - no less than 3 ex-girlfriends have tried this stunt.) On the other hand, while Just Dance and Poker Face may have penetrated my iTunes, and LoveGame isn't without its charms, Lady Gaga really isn't my kind of music. On top of that, I flat out dislike everything I've ever heard from Beyonce. But as long as we're on the topic of amazing music videos, Gorillaz's offering for Stylo makes me happy on so many levels. The band (minus the conspicuously absent Russell) looks bloody brilliant rendered in 3D, Bruce Willis is always awesome and, of course, I love the song. The whole album, for that matter. Their collab with Lou Reed is everything I could possibly want it to be.
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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 11:33 am
The p***y Wagon is the only direct reference to him. The problem is that Generation Y can't tell the difference between Tarantino and the tropes of grindhouse cinema that he injects into his work. There is a much longer tradition than him being evoked but they very shrewdly honor him as the keeper of the flame.
I'm writing up a big blog post about the video, but it might eat me before I finish it because it's so dense with meaning and landmark achievements in mainstream pop. It makes 90s Madonna look like Taylor Swift.
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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 11:36 am
To be fair, it can be a tricky thing to allude to a guy whose films are often 80% homage.
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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 11:37 am
To an audience who has never seen what he is homaging. rofl
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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 1:00 pm
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Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 9:14 am
Went to see Alice in Wonderland in 3d last night, my first of this new wave of them. It was a lot of fun, I enjoyed it even if it was fairly bland story wise. But it wasn't the movie that has haunted me all night and through this morning. That honour belongs to the Tron Legacy trailer which is beyond stunning when seen in 3d. I got so pumped until they flashed the date. I couldn't help but yell "DECEMBER?!" Nine months. Seriously. It's Sherlock Holmes all over again.
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Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 12:55 pm
I'm CRAZY pumped for Tron Legacy. I love Tron. I, however, have do desire to see Burton's Wonderland so I've just seen the trailer (and extended teaser from last year) online.
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Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:37 pm
Not sure where to put this but here we go. http://www.superherohype.com/news.php?id=9161The Kirby estate is officially suing Marvel for rights to characters. What seems weird is that the estate has thrown non-Kirby characters in there like Spider-Man. Can someone explain how that is not a Ditko/Lee character?
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Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:39 pm
I saw Alice in 3D as well, problem was, My movie going group got there late, so we had to sit in the front row right corner. Let me tell you something, 3D does not work as well when you have to tilt your head that much, because thing don't look like they are coming at you, but more that they are bending around you.
The Tron movie does look epic, and on that note of epic, Can't wait for April 2, Clash of the Titans!
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Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:56 pm
Chris Powell Not sure where to put this but here we go. http://www.superherohype.com/news.php?id=9161The Kirby estate is officially suing Marvel for rights to characters. What seems weird is that the estate has thrown non-Kirby characters in there like Spider-Man. Can someone explain how that is not a Ditko/Lee character? Kirby claimed that Spider-Man was always rooted in an idea that him and Joe Simon came up with. Stan Lee's version of the story is that he conceived the character, approached Kirby for some designs but ended up going with Ditko's instead. All in all, I think it's a complete load of bullshit. If Kirby really thought it was work-for-hire, he probably would've made some attempt to regain control of these characters when he was alive. What's more is that the writer (ie. Stan Lee in almost all cases) is at least as entitled to the copyrights in several cases, if not more. Disney bought Marvel, and now Kirby's greedy heirs are looking for a slice of the pie. ******** shame. On a lighter note, I am also ridiculously excited for Tron: Legacy, if only because I worship at the idol of Jeff Bridges.
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Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:59 pm
Ah thanks Nick. I was wondering how Stan Lee's co-creatorship would fly in this situation. I know not all people like Lee and how he promotes himself...
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Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 5:05 pm
Newscaster Billy Batson I'm CRAZY pumped for Tron Legacy. I love Tron. I, however, have do desire to see Burton's Wonderland so I've just seen the trailer (and extended teaser from last year) online.
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Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 6:25 pm
I don't doubt it, and it is pretty tempting. I'm too against the "Burtion-zation" of Alice for entirely selfish reasons; so the 3D will have to be seen when it the films comes out.
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Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:12 pm
Anyone check out that new show on Comedy Central, Ugly Americans?
After watch the pilot ep, I got to say it give me the same feeling Super Jail gave me. Though they are both different in many ways, but I guess it the randomness that make me think of the two the same way. Which is a good thing.
I'm looking forward to watching the rest of the season.
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