For those who are confused and interested, here’s a sort of explanation for the “Telephone” video. I’m not sure what it is, but people really don’t seem to get it. I saw a very funny parody yesterday, but the point of it was that the video doesn’t make sense.
Her video’s rarely have anything to do with the songs they’re accompanying anymore. “Just Dance” and “Poker Face” were a little more direct, but in the last couple she’s kind of trying to tell a story.
So here’s my interpretation of “Telephone”. Seen out of context, it does seem like just a random messed up video. Perhaps if you watch “Paparazzi” first, you can piece it together yourself. Telephone is a sequel to it. In Paparazzi, her boyfriend, played by Alex Scarsgard (the sexy Eric of True Blood), throws her off a balcony. She’s hospitalized, bound to a wheelchair, then crutches, until she eventually gets better and kills him with poison. At the end she makes a call to 911 confessing this crime.