Lady Gaga f/ Beyonce: "Telephone"

I would like to now shift the discussion to the new Lady Gaga video, which is too insane for me to even talk about in terms of good or bad. I actually feel sort of disoriented/inspired to write 25,000 words about everything and nothing.

People, help me parse this. Possible discussions:

1) What do we think about how this is the second video—out of, what, three or four?—to feature poisoning and assassination?

2) Does Gaga’s portrayal of her bisexuality = Tatu, and if not, why?

3) Are there any further Tarantino references beyond the Pussy Wagon that I’m not seeing? Was the Pussy Wagon from Kill Bill itself a reference to something else? If so, what?

4) How does a ten minute video with this many ideas in it still have such obvious and clumsy product placement?

5) What is Beyonce doing here? As a person without an apparent self-awareness (think of “If I Was a Boy” as the sincere counter-argument to this Gaga video), is her participation here acquiescence to the kind of pop reflexivity that Gaga represents? Or: does Gaga represent a sort of anti-sincerity and, if so, what does Beyonce—as sort of ultimate in R&B/pop emoting—do to her image by appearing here? Am I being unfair to both artists?

6) If Joanna Newsom appeared in that video, would Nitsuh Abebe’s head have exploded?