5. Pastiche
5. Female banter in the car: Death
Proof
âą Idiomatic banter is a Tarantino staple, and
âTelephoneâ rides that wave with lines like
âonce you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger.â
A car scene from Death Proof.
A scene from telephone involving female
banter
7. âą We also get an image of Gaga's
HeartBeats headphones, from Beats by
Dre (the first of many product
placements), while someone is busting
her song "Paper Gangsta" on the radio.
The song choice is, of course, deliberate;
it's a song about girl power.
Hyper Consciousness And Narcissism
8. Bricolage
âą Alternating between Japanese and comic book-style subtitles, the
video channels Gaga's beloved pop art pioneers Roy Lichenstein
and Andy Warhol. Inspired by the Warhol's exploration of mass
consumer culture and advertising through his Campbell's soup
studies, Gaga and Akerlund challenge the gender stereotype of the
"perfect housewife" portrayed heavily in 1950s pop culture, using
Wonder Bread and Miracle Whip as their artistic devices.