I don't go-and that's because I usually go and then, you know, a whiskey and a half into it, I got to get back to work. You don't see pictures of me falling out of a club drunk. 'Cause I love my work so much, I find it really hard to go out and have a good time. . The main inspiration behind the song was Gaga's fear of suffocation as she felt that she seldom found time to just let loose and have fun.įear of suffocation-something that I have or fear is never being able to enjoy myself, . It's fine because I love the song and I get to perform it now.' Additionally, the guest vocalist was originally going to be Spears, but ultimately Gaga made Knowles the featured vocalist instead. Gaga said, 'I wrote it for her a long time ago and she just didn't use it for her album. Lady Gaga later wrote the song as a collaboration with Beyoncé Knowles for The Fame Monster. Spears later recorded a demo version of the song but the demo version later leaked. Lady Gaga originally wrote the song 'Telephone' for Britney Spears. The song was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2011 for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. 'Telephone' was appreciated by contemporary critics who many times noted it as a stand-out track from The Fame Monster. Knowles appears in the middle of the song, singing the verses in a rapid-fire way, accompanied by double beats. Musically, the song is made of an expanded bridge, verse-rap and an epilogue, where the voice of an operator says that the phone line is not reachable. Gaga explained that the telephone addressed in the lyrics of the song, is in reality a person telling her to continue working harder. The main inspiration of the song was Gaga's fear of not being able to enjoy herself because of her career, hence the lyrics show the singer as wanting the dance floor, rather than answering her lover's phone calls. It was also performed during the Super Bowl LI halftime show, and many of the singer's later tours, the most recent being the Joanne World Tour (2017–2018).' Telephone' is a song by American singer Lady Gaga from her third EP The Fame Monster, featuring American R&B singer Beyoncé Knowles.

In memory of Alexander McQueen, Gaga performed an acoustic rendition of 'Telephone' mixed with 'Dance in the Dark' at the 2010 BRIT Awards.

In January 2015 Billboard named it the best video of the first half of the decade. The video received generally positive reviews and was nominated for three awards at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, including one for Video of the Year. The video referenced Quentin Tarantino and his films Pulp Fiction (1994) and Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003). After the homicide they escape and end up in a high-speed police chase. After Gaga gets bailed out of prison by Beyoncé, they go to a diner and poison the guests having breakfast. The accompanying music video is a continuation of the video for her 2009 song, 'Paparazzi', and is also shot as a short film. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, the single sold 7.4 million digital copies worldwide in 2010, making it one of Gaga's best-selling singles. The song was particularly successful in Europe where it reached the top of the charts in Belgium, Denmark, Hungary, Ireland, Norway and the United Kingdom. 'Telephone' charted in a number of countries due to digital sales following the album's release, namely in the United States, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden and Hungary.

It was Grammy-nominated for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals in 2011. The song received positive reviews from critics who frequently noted 'Telephone' as a stand-out track from The Fame Monster. Beyoncé appears in the middle of the song, singing the verses in a rapid-fire way, accompanied by double beats. Musically, 'Telephone' consists of an expanded bridge, verse-rap and a sampled voice of an operator announcing that the phone line is unreachable. Originally, Gaga wrote the song for Britney Spears, who recorded a demo.

Inspired by her fear of suffocation, Gaga explained that the lyrics preferring relaxing on the dance floor to answering her lover's phone call are a metaphor, the phone calling her representing the fear of not having worked hard enough to succeed. The song was written by Gaga, Rodney Jerkins, LaShawn Daniels, Lazonate Franklin and Beyoncé. The song features American singer Beyoncé. 'Telephone' is a song recorded by American singer Lady Gaga for her third EP, The Fame Monster (2009), the reissue of her debut studio album The Fame (2008).

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