New gay icon Lady Gaga (interviewed in February’s edition of Out In The City), has produced her most lavish musical video yet. The nine and a half minute film for new single ‘Telephone’ (featuring r’n’b superstar Beyoncé) finds the singer again reveling in some gay imagery. With much of the video set within a women’s prison, the New York-born, 23-year-old singer is shown kissing a butch, fellow prisoner in the exercise yard, before being released and running away with Beyoncé.
In a sign of her growing superstar status, and the anticipation which greets each her videos, the film – which was directed by Jonas Åkerlund – had been viewed over a million times within 12 hours of appearing on youtube, although several TV channels have said that they will not show the full video because of its controversial content – which also includes Beyoncé and Lady Gaga poisoning the customers at a diner.
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