Lady Gaga's Telephone Video - featuring Beyonce...Is It Wack or Art?

Well, there's been an incredible buzz with Lady Gaga's latest music video "Telephone" featuring Beyonce! It's Gaga for sure and both ladies do a good job in this campy, Quentin Tarrantino-inspired video, but what are the messages they're sending? The violence is over the top and totally unneeded. This is for adults, healthy individuals, but that won't always be the case. The kids are going to heavily consume this video with the poisoning, fights and partial nudity, it doesn't send a good message. I can understand some defending this as art, while some say it's wack and disgusting.  To make sure it gets airplay, they added a sizable amount of product placement from Diet Coke to Wonder Bread and Miracle Whip to Virgin Phone. Now who's going to turn down what would total millions of dollars of free advertising! Lady Gaga is a revamped version of Madonna and Irish artist, Roisin Murphy, not as original as I initially thought. Knowing what's going on with our young people is my real concern, the suicide rates, campus shootings, inner city blues, this isn't the way to sell records. The video would have been still very good without the violence. I get it's a take-off on Tarrantino films, but it's exploitation! If it takes all of this to create a buzz and make what some will call "epic"...a much over-used word, like diva, then is it worth it? Can't artists create original music anymore, their own  swagger infused with yesterday, without straight out duplicating, make cutting-edge videos without appealing to our lowest nature? There seems to be no end in sight for what artists will do to sell music and at who's expense?

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