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...article “A Portrait of the Hipster,” the title of which conveys the gist of the remaining six pages. Examination, dissection, analysis, and historicization of cultural movements is hard to do, as they are unfolding and moving from individual to collective manifestations. Lady Gaga??s “Telephone,” however, is the most popular cultural text by which we can begin a discourse on the portrait of the modern Hipster...
...Make Her Say feat. Kanye West & Common,” which includes a sample from Lady Gaga??s “Poker Face?...
...latest product of Gaga??s shift in the craziness spectrum is the video for “Telephone,” which succeeds in surpassing even the imagery- and blood-strewn performance from the MTV Video Music Awards as the pinnacle of her avant-garde weirdness. There are sunglasses covered in cigarettes, poisoned honey, Quentin Tarantino references galore, and a scene where Gaga wears nothing but caution tape. This last feature seems a little unnecessary since, when someone is only wearing tape, most people will already have realized that she should probably be handled with caution...
...those minutes is packed with a healthy dose of good old-fashioned crazy. Though it’s meant to be a sequel to the “Paparazzi” video, “Telephone” feels more like a break from that phase of Gaga??s career than a continuation of it. No longer do songs need to play contiguously, videos don’t have to relate in any way to their song’s subject matter, and product placement can be as deliberately unsubtle as Gaga??s numerous outfits...
...video also gets around to dealing with that famous question of Gaga doubters—“I told you she didn’t have a dick,” says the prison officer who has just had Gaga??s distinctly female genitals shoved in her face. While Lady Gaga may not have a dick, as “Telephone” yet again shows, you can’t say she doesn’t have balls...