Telephone (song)

January 26, 2010

Telephone is a dance-pop song by American singer Lady Gaga. The song is the second single from her second studio album The Fame Monster. The song took on Lady Gaga with the American R & B singer Beyoncé Knowles.

Background

Lady Gaga wrote "Telephone" with Rodney Jerkins originally for Britney Spears. As their label rejected the song, she took the song itself on with Beyoncé Knowles for The Fame Monster. Gaga said: " I ​​wrote it for her a long time ago and she just did not use it for her album. It's fine because i love the song and I get to perform it now. " " I wrote it for her a long time ago and they do not used for their album. That's good, because I love the song and I'll sing it now. "Even the guest vocal was originally to be taken over by Spears, but for unknown reasons he was finally sung by Knowles. The idea behind the song was the fear to get figuratively no more air, not being able to enjoy life. So Lady Gaga said in an interview that she would find it difficult to go out and to have a " good time " because they love so much their work:

"Fear of suffocation -something did I have or fear is never being able to enjoy myself, [ ... ] 'Cause I love my work so much, I find it really hard to go out and have a good time. [ ... ] I do not go to night clubs, [ ... ] You do not see pictures of me falling out of a club drunk. I do not 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. "

Composition

Telephone was written by Lady Gaga, Rodney Jerkins, LaShawn Daniels, Lazonate Franklin and Knowles. Although the song is created as a duet, Knowles appears only in a short musical interlude in the middle stanza. The song begins with Lady Gaga, who sings over a harp melody with dark, solemn voice. The singer is in a club and her boyfriend calls, she says. " Stop calling, stop calling, I do not want to talk anymore" Telephone consists of an expanded bridge, the verse and an epilogue where a voice announces, that the number at the time could not be achieved. The website Musicnotes.com by Sony / ATV Music Publishing According to the song is in an ordinary 4/4-Zählzeit with a tempo of 122 beats per minute. Gaga's vocals range from deep three-line F3 to highest note of C5. The basic key is F minor, the piece has the chord progression Fm -As- B -Fm.

According to Gaga is the phone in the song is not a physical phone, but to the in her head. She explained: " That's my fear -that the phone 's ringing and my head 's ringing, [ ... ] Whether it's a telephone or it's just the thoughts in your head, that's another fear. " " That's my fear - that the phone is ringing and my head is ringing also, [ ... ] Whether it is a phone or just the thoughts in your head, that's another fear. "

Reception

Telephone got mostly good reviews. Michael Hubbard of MusicOMH said that the song " perhaps the best on the album. " He praised the " brilliant bridge " and the end of the song. Popjustice gave the song good review: " It's a bit like Gwen 's What You Waiting For meets Timbaland 's The Way I Are and this meets about fifty other things ... The structure 's quite exciting ... there is something brilliant in Beyoncé's contribution? that makes everything look very fine. "

Amy Phillips of Pitchfork Media placed Telephone number 55 in its list of "Top Tracks of 2010", and said that " it was one of the less weird tracks on The Fame Monster ... " Mikael Woods from Los Angeles Times said that Telephone " its careful consideration is how annoying it is when a guy calls you constantly while you 're in a club. "

Sarah Hajibagheri of The Times and Armond White of New York Press were not impressed with the song. Hajibagheri said: "The appearance of Beyoncé's vocal along with a phone ring tones underscores the feeling of utter Chaoses. " Telephone was placed by Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone at number three its list of " Top 25 Singles of 2010". The single was nominated for a Grammy in the category " Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals ".

Commercial success

In the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, the song reached number 3, and became her sixth consecutive song that made ​​it into the top ten in the U.S. charts. The song has sold over 2.810 million copies in the United States. In Australia and Canada, the song also reached # 3 on the respective charts and was awarded in Australia with three times platinum for 210,000 and in Canada with 3- times platinum for 120,000 copies sold.

In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the song reached No. 1 on the charts. Also in Norway, Belgium and Denmark Telephone reached the top of the charts. The top three reached the song in countries like Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Austria, Sweden and New Zealand. Worldwide, 7.4 million sold times the song in 2010.

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