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- Duration: 5:06
- Published: 18 Nov 2009
- Uploaded: 04 Aug 2011
- Author: beyonceVEVO
Name | Video Phone |
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Cover | Beyonvideeophonelo.jpg |
Alt | Bust of Beyoncé wearing a golden cloth with bare left shoulders. Her right hand is hold across her right cheek, and she wears a number of golden rings and metallic contraptions around her fingers. She has dark make-up around her eyes and her hair is pulled back on the top. |
Artist | Beyoncé |
Album | I Am... Sasha Fierce |
A-side | "Broken-Hearted Girl" |
B-side | "Poison" |
Released | |
Format | CD single, digital download |
Recorded | 2008; Bangladesh, Patchwerk and Silent Sound studios (Atlanta, Georgia) |
Genre | R&B;, electro hop |
Length | 3:35 (Album Version)5:02 (Extended Remix) |
Label | Columbia |
Writer | Beyoncé Knowles, Shondrae Crawford, Sean Garrett; Stefani Germanotta (remix only) |
Producer | Bangladesh, The Pen, Beyoncé Knowles |
Chronology | Beyoncé |
Last single | "Broken-Hearted Girl"(2009) |
This single | "Video Phone"(2009) |
Next single | "Put It in a Love Song"(2010) |
"Video Phone" is a song by American R&B; singer Beyoncé Knowles from her third studio album, I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008). The track was released as the eighth single from the album. A remixed version, featuring pop singer Lady Gaga was released later. Musically, the song consists of simple lyrics and hidden innuendos, with Gaga and Beyoncé trading verses with each other, in the remix. The lyrics refer to putting up a show on camera.
The song received generally mixed reviews from most of the critics, who noted that Gaga's featured appearance failed to add anything to the tune. The original version charted in the lower regions of the charts of Australia and its Urban chart, Spain, United Kingdom and on the US R&B; charts. The remixed version charted at sixty-five on the Billboard Hot 100, and topped the Hot Dance Club Songs chart. It also charted in Australia and its Urban chart, the Czech Republic, New Zealand, while it bubbled under the main charts of Belgium.
A music video was created to accompany the song featuring Gaga. It portrayed her and Knowles in a number of costumes, brandishing colorful guns towards men and paying homage to the film Reservoir Dogs and pinup legend Bettie Page. It received mixed feedback from critics who called it un-interesting, misandric and felt that it did not present anything new. However, they complimented the costumes and the cinematic homage of the video. The video went on to win the BET award for Video of the Year.
Musically the song consists of simple lyrics, with hidden innuendos, and is backed by thin-spread beats; Beyoncé and Gaga uttering gasps and groans while singing the song.
In Australia, the original version of the song, debuted at 89 and peaked at 66 on the ARIA Singles Chart. The original and the remixed version, respectively, both peaked at 29 on the ARIA Urban Chart. In the United Kingdom, the original version of "Video Phone" debuted on the UK Singles Chart at 91, and peaked at 58. The original and remixed version peaked on the UK R&B; Chart at 21 and 36 respectively. and outside the official charts in Belgium (Flanders and Wallonia). In the Czech Republic, the extended remix of "Video Phone" debuted at thirty-nine on issue date February 17, 2010.
A music video for the extended remix of "Video Phone" was directed by Hype Williams. On October 15, 2009, a spokesperson for Williams confirmed to MTV, that reports of Gaga and Beyoncé working on the music video together were true. It was shot at Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood, under tight security. The artists were reported to be wearing fashionable dresses, with Knowles in "a feathered dress" and Gaga sporting "something wild". The video was initially set to premiere on November 5, 2009 but did not actually premiere until November 17, 2009.
International download bundle #"Video Phone" – 3:35 #"Video Phone" (Extended remix featuring Lady Gaga) – 5:04 #"Poison" – 4:04 UK digital download Remix Bundle #"Video Phone" (Extended remix featuring Lady Gaga) – 5:04 #"Video Phone" (Gareth Wyn remix) – 7:53 #"Video Phone" (Oli Collins & Fred Portelli remix) – 7:02 #"Video Phone" (Doman & Gooding Playhouse Vocal Remix) – 6:33 #"Video Phone" (My Digital Enemy remix) – 7:00 #"Video Phone" (Gareth Wyn remix radio edit) – 3:57
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Category:2008 songs Category:2009 singles Category:Beyoncé Knowles songs Category:Lady Gaga songs Category:Music videos directed by Hype Williams Category:Songs written by Beyoncé Knowles Category:Songs written by Sean Garrett Category:Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs number-one singles Category:American hip hop songs
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