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...army of hipsters has been shooting me death glares ever since my failure to immediately move upon finishing my hot chocolate. “Move, outlet-hogging bitch,” their eyes say. “And is that...Lady Gaga’s ‘Telephone?? coming out of your iPod? We hope you are listening to that ironically.” Everything seems faster here; everyone seems busier. Maybe it’s just that it’s home. There’s something endemically more interesting about someone from another...
Bringing us to Gaga’s “Telephone,” which in its first week up had more than 20 million views on YouTube. The relevance of Gaga doesn’t need to be restated here. The “Telephone?? video, like Hipsterdom’s underlying ideology, is self-conscious to the point of stylizing that awareness. The video is a celebration of celebrity qua celebrity, as well as an amalgamation of different cultural allusions, the familiarity of which render the viewer comfortable. ‘Telephone?...
...Telephone?? is nine and a half minutes long, and every one of 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...
...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...
...percent” of GYWO strips achieve that flash of honesty he looks for.“That leaves a lot of filler,” he says.FUTURE UNCERTAINIn early 2002, Rees published a GYWO strip that, like many others, featured two nameless office workers talking on the telephone??in this instance, about Bush’s infamous reading of “My Pet Goat” to Florida school-children during Sept. 11 and about reports that terrorists were targeting New York’s Brooklyn Bridge.This strip exemplifies Rees’ philosophy of political comedy...