{"id":428278,"date":"2010-03-15T03:33:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T07:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=96385"},"modified":"2010-03-15T03:33:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T07:33:51","slug":"%e2%80%9ctelephone%e2%80%9d-video-banned-by-mtv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/428278","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTelephone\u201d VIDEO Banned By MTV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GQ95z6ywcBY&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GQ95z6ywcBY&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>All that Gaga touches isn&#8217;t gold, and the pop hitmaker&#8217;s &#8220;Telephone&#8221; is getting a dialtone from MTV &#8212; at least that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/mtv-bans-lady-gaga-beyonce-telephone\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mediaite%2FClHj+%28Mediaite%29\">the story CNN is telling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the ratings-starved cable news network issued a report claiming &#8220;Telephone,&#8221; the popular video collaboration featuring two of the biggest names in music, Lady Gaga and Beyonce, has been banned by MTV for its &#8220;raunchy provocativeness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Are we talking about the same network that airs <em>Jersey Shore<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-96385\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/videos.mediaite.com\/embed\/player\/?layout=&#038;playlist_cid=&#038;media_type=video&#038;content=MZ6WJN0RS4PGCS38&#038;widget_type_cid=svp\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" frameborder=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>MTV, on the other hand, denies that &#8220;Telephone&#8221; has been taken out of rotation. Network bosses promptly issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MTVJams\">series of Tweets<\/a> ensuring Gaga fanatics that the video has not been banned from MTV:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The report is false..we&#8217;ve been airing it on amtv since friday morning and we&#8217;re not douchebags (or sexist)&#8230;.&#8221;<\/em>MTV&#8217;s Manager of Programming, Tuma Basa, wrote on the network&#8217;s Twitter page early Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that about sums it up. <\/p>\n<p>(We&#8217;ve been hard-pressed to take CNN&#8217;s word for anything ever since they fell for that 100-year-old <a href=\"http:\/\/tv.gawker.com\/5480390\/cnn-scandal-is-this-hot-dog-really-140-years-old\">Coney Island hot dog hoax<\/a> last month&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>The extravagant &#8220;Telephone&#8221; video &#8212; an tribute to director Quentin Tarantino &#8212; premiered online on Thursday and by Sunday had already been viewed more than 11 million times on YouTube. In fact, &#8220;Telephone&#8217;s&#8221; already well on its way to surpassing YouTube views for Gaga&#8217;s popular &#8220;Bad Romance&#8221; video, which has been watched more than 140 million times since last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Jonas Akerlund, who also helmed the Grammy winner&#8217;s &#8220;Paparazzi&#8221; video, the controversial new video begins with two bra-flashing guards escorting Gaga to her prison cell as an audience of incarcerated girls looks on seductively. The next nine-and-a-half minutes are filled with tons of profanity, nudity, murder, and mounds of product placement.<\/p>\n<p>. How many products did YOU count? Here&#8217;s what we saw:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Wonderbread<br \/>\n&#8211; Miracle Whip<br \/>\n&#8211; Honey Bun<br \/>\n&#8211; PlentyofFish.com<br \/>\n&#8211; Heartbeats by Gaga headphones<br \/>\n&#8211; Virgin Mobile<br \/>\n&#8211; Diet Coke<br \/>\n&#8211; Polaroi<br \/>\n&#8211; The Pussywagon: The signature truck from Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s <em>Kill Bill<\/em> movies.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your take on Gaga&#8217;s racy new video &#8211; Too Hot for MTV?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5BKCnRzdIYZ8MB6gLnfc8s6d19o\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5BKCnRzdIYZ8MB6gLnfc8s6d19o\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5BKCnRzdIYZ8MB6gLnfc8s6d19o\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5BKCnRzdIYZ8MB6gLnfc8s6d19o\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All that Gaga touches isn&#8217;t gold, and the pop hitmaker&#8217;s &#8220;Telephone&#8221; is getting a dialtone from MTV &#8212; at least that&#8217;s the story CNN is telling. On Sunday, the ratings-starved cable news network issued a report claiming &#8220;Telephone,&#8221; the popular video collaboration featuring two of the biggest names in music, Lady Gaga and Beyonce, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}