Sandy Rios , president of the Culture Campaign criticized the video on Fox News in an interview with Megyn Kelly , calling it " disgusting ... poison for the minds of our kids " . Critic Armond White , of the '' New York Press '' , described the video as " cruel and ugly " also stating that it " epitomizes the insanity of the contemporary pop mainstream " and pays " homage to Tarantino 's influence " in distorting " pop culture pleasure into nonsense " . William Goodman of '' Spin '' called the video a " Whitman 's sampler of pop nuggets " and found a " boom-pow effect of colored Japanese television . " He finished his review by concluding that the " video must have cost a fortune " and described it as a " big-budget , pop masterwork " . Caryn Ganz of '' Rolling Stone '' called the video a " mash-up of lesbian prison porn , campy sexploitation flicks and insidery winks at the two divas ' public personas . " He noted that " If Quentin Tarantino and Russ Meyer remade '' Thelma & Louise '' as an orgy of product placement with fiercely choreographed interludes , this would be the result . " Ganz finished his review by saying that " The clip is certainly cinematic and oddly feminist , and gasps at a larger statement about consumer culture . " In May 2011 , Gaga expressed dissatisfaction with the video in an interview with '' Time Out '' , saying : " I ca n't even watch the Telephone video , I hate it so much . Beyoncé and I are great together . But there are so many ideas in that video and all I see in that video is my brain throbbing with ideas and I wish I had edited myself a little bit more . " The video was placed at number three on '' NME '' s list of " 50 Best Music Videos of 2010 " along with the comment that it 's " nearly ten minutes of product placements , a Thelma and Louise storyline , bizarre outfits and some uniquely Gaga-esque dance moves . " It was also placed at number 17 on '' NME '' s list of " 100 Greatest Music Videos " and the writer concluded , " ' Telephone ' eschews all the overreaching cosmic weirdness of her recent clips and settles for a nine-minute lesbo action-filled Tarantino rip-off . " On '' Spin '' s list of " The 20 Best Music Videos of 2010 " , the video was put at number seven along with the comment that " the decision to enlist the normally buttoned-up Beyoncé in Gaga 's lezzie jailbird fantasia was genius . " The writers of Pitchfork Media also put the video on their list of " The Top Music Videos of 2010 " . On , 2010 , the video received three nominations at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards , in the categories of Best Choreography , Video of the Year and Best Collaboration , winning the latter and losing the former to Gaga 's own " Bad Romance " video
2010 MTV Video Music Awards
2010 MTV Video Music Awards
Telephone (song)