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.

In Telephone, she is now in prison for this crime. The crime scene tape wrapped around her body? I think it’s there because her body was the scene of a crime. The one in which her boyfriend broke it in pieces. The cigarette glasses are weird. I think it’s because they’re usually used in prison to barter. Same with picking the butchest bitch in the bunch to be hers so you don’t get your ass kicked.

Beyonce comes along to bail her out. They then go meet up with Beyonce’s own abusive boyfriend to kill him with poison too. They end up killing a whole diner full of people along with him, so I guess now they’re on the run.

To be continued……

So needless to say there will be another video out soon which, taken out of context, will make no sense to most people either. I myself am a fan of weird stuff. I get bored of videos where the singer prances around in generic movie plot lines intermingled with even more generic dance routines. A less interesting artist may have made this video “about” a bunch of girls at the club dancing around while her man tried calling her on her phone. Zzzzzzzzzz.

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