Artist(s)/ Band: Lady Gaga ft Beyonce Knowles
Track name: Telephone
Release date: 22nd August, 2001
Genre: Disco/ Electro-Pop
Lady Gaga's "Telephone" contains multiple post-modern contents which could possibly be of high interests to a wide range of female viewers. The numerous scenes Lady Gaga is shot in, shows a wide concept of post modernism due to purposely used mise-en-scene along with the actual song lyrics itself.
The audience are introduced to an American women’s prison where the protagonist, Lady Gaga is being accommodated into her new prison cell for the killing of her boyfriend, giving the impression that it’s a continuation from her previous single "Paparazzi". In prison we see females resembling stereotypically actions and behaviour males are foreseen to be doing in a male prison, conventions such as bodybuilding, having gang fights, more over the whole scene has a less feminist appeal.
The mise-en-scene also imitates the 1960s American fashion and style, with the curly blonde hairstyles, with the funky and vibrant clothes. As well as the settings such the diner in which Lady Gaga and Beyoncé Knowles perform a dance routine, which has the features of the typical diner you would expect straight from the 60s.
Interestingly the video also contains homage to Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol.1, the escaping Lady Gaga and Beyoncé drive away in a car with the number plate that reads Kill Bill. Also Lady Gaga calls Beyoncé as "Honey Bee", this is also another homage credited to the movie "Pulp Fiction"(1994) another one of Tarantino's films where one of the characters are named "Honey Bunny".
The beginning of the video shows the titles of the music video of the main characters that are going to be the characters played in the video; Lady Gaga and Beyoncé. What is highly noticeable is the inter-textual referencing between the title and credits are formatted and movies titles set in the 1960s with the basic contrasting three dimension trendy fonts that gives the initial impression that the music video could potentially be a short movie.
Lady Gaga's "Telephone" contains multiple post-modern contents which could possibly be of high interests to a wide range of female viewers. The numerous scenes Lady Gaga is shot in, shows a wide concept of post modernism due to purposely used mise-en-scene along with the actual song lyrics itself.
The audience are introduced to an American women’s prison where the protagonist, Lady Gaga is being accommodated into her new prison cell for the killing of her boyfriend, giving the impression that it’s a continuation from her previous single "Paparazzi". In prison we see females resembling stereotypically actions and behaviour males are foreseen to be doing in a male prison, conventions such as bodybuilding, having gang fights, more over the whole scene has a less feminist appeal.
The mise-en-scene also imitates the 1960s American fashion and style, with the curly blonde hairstyles, with the funky and vibrant clothes. As well as the settings such the diner in which Lady Gaga and Beyoncé Knowles perform a dance routine, which has the features of the typical diner you would expect straight from the 60s.
Interestingly the video also contains homage to Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol.1, the escaping Lady Gaga and Beyoncé drive away in a car with the number plate that reads Kill Bill. Also Lady Gaga calls Beyoncé as "Honey Bee", this is also another homage credited to the movie "Pulp Fiction"(1994) another one of Tarantino's films where one of the characters are named "Honey Bunny".
The beginning of the video shows the titles of the music video of the main characters that are going to be the characters played in the video; Lady Gaga and Beyoncé. What is highly noticeable is the inter-textual referencing between the title and credits are formatted and movies titles set in the 1960s with the basic contrasting three dimension trendy fonts that gives the initial impression that the music video could potentially be a short movie.
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