LADY GAGA AND BEYONCE SONG REMADE BY BORED SOLDIERS IN AFGHANISTAN
Courtesy of Jason Louv at Dangerous Minds
F*#king epic remake of “Telephone” by Lady Gaga and Beyoncé by a bunch of bored soldiers in a base in Afghanistan. Clearly they are as bored there as I am here. I’m glad I know that all the money I got reamed for this year out of my hard-earned pay for writing about Lady Gaga went to Lady Gaga YouTube remakes in the desert.
(Thanks, Josh McCafferty!)
(Examiner: Soldiers in Afghanistan remake Lady Gaga ‘Telephone’ video)
(Lady Gaga/Beyonce—Telephone: The Remixes)
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"Over the last year Lady Gaga has come to embody —for me and, I imagine, for her fans — a kind of posthuman life strategy. She presents a response to the horrors of the 21st century that reeks, strangely, of absolute sanity — the sanity of very archly embracing the most grotesque excesses of the materialist culture that is destroying the planet…
"If David Bowie’s chameleonic posturing prefigured the hypertext web, Gaga may be the first version of a human being we have seen capable of thriving in the era of the social web. She is shiny, clickable, and malleable in the face of endless attention fragmentation. She is an adaptive strategy. Without any solid or “real” self, her identity becomes whatever it needs to be, immune to the toxic shock of the incoming century, fully geared up to party in the ruins. Is it any wonder that she’s provoked the response she has, both adulation and hatred? She’s the first non-boring thing to happen in pop music for almost fifteen years."
– Lady Gaga & the Dead Planet Grotesque, Jason Louv
