It has been over a week since Lady Gaga has released the video for her current single "Telephone" (also, "Alejandro" has made it to the radio- confirmed!), and since then, conservative Americans are getting all riled up over what they call a "disgusting" brainwashing video on sadomasochism and homosexuality! As if this video hasn't been troubled enough with the whole "banned-on-MTV/not-banned-on-MTV" thing. Watch the video where two women from (wait for it...) FOX News discuss this "sado-masochist porn," or as the rest of the world knows it, the "Telephone" music video:
Gaga responded:
"There are transsexual women and transgender women and suddenly it becomes poisonous and something else because there are some people in this world that believe being gay is a choice. It's not a choice, we're born this way. That's why for me this video is groundbreaking because it has one foot in the art community and one foot in the commercial world.
I told Beyoncé this after it aired, you'll see this video is not just great now but six months from now what this video will mean. Hearing people say the video is sadomasochistic or that the video promotes murder for young people, it's my personal belief that the video is getting so much attention, not because of those themes because I've done those themes before, haven't I?
There are no rules or limits when it comes to love. But I see love as separate from sex."
Gaga, who has told the public that she is bisexual, is clearly upset that she is being attacked for a video featuring homosexuality and murder (but, let me note the murder is not graphic, and it is done in an artful way. And trust me- I know artful murder, I'm a Tarantino fan), but I applaud her for being so graceful about the whole thing. [Perez Hilton]
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