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What exactly is dance? That will be Telephone,” the gloriously ridiculous, 9-and-a-half-minute spectacle from director Jonas Åkerlund that involves a girls’s jail, Beyoncé (ahem, Honeybee”) feeding Woman Gaga a pastry, a homicide at a diner, a poison sandwich-making tutorial, Quentin Tarantino references aplenty, and a dance sequence that has spawned dozens of YouTube tutorials.

Nevertheless, the channel did air Olivia Newton-John ‘s 1981 video for the hit song ” Physical “, which lavished camera time on male models understanding in string bikinis who spurn her advances, finally pairing off to stroll to the men’s locker rooms holding arms, although the community ended the clip before the overt homosexual “reveal” ending in some airings.

Beyoncé stopped the world for the umpteenth time when she dropped the explosive track and video for Formation,” just a day before performing the anthem at Tremendous Bowl 50. Frequent collaborator Melina Matsoukas may have shot the video in Los Angeles, however each second is deeply rooted in Louisiana and its Creole background – the ancestral origin of Beyoncé’s mom, Tina Knowles Lawson.

Album gross sales have been depleted by the rise of downloading and then streaming, MTV has been supplanted by the Web because the video’s primary house, and makes an attempt to reboot TRL solely show how totally different instances are now than when Backstreet and Britney dominated the world.

Wrecking Ball” was not the lead single for the all-grown-up coming-out social gathering that was Miley Cyrus’ Bangerz, but nothing from that era, not even her controversial MTV Video Music Awards efficiency, forced viewers to recognize Cyrus on her personal phrases greater than this Terry Richardson-directed clip.