Beyonce released her newest video today, for the song “Video Phone.” It is intensely bizarre. So much so that I’m wondering if other people are going to be creeped out by it or if I’m just out of touch. It just really, really doesn’t do it for me. I’m all for doing something unique and creative, and that means taking risks. To me, it doesn’t really work, but I applaud the effort. The video also stars Lady Gaga, who helps out Beyonce during the second half of the song. I found her part of the song and the video better… but mostly because the creepy dancing cameras weren’t grinding against Beyonce anymore.

Trust us: Beyoncé and Lady Gaga will make you wish you owned a video phone.

The longtime pop-tune heavyweight and the latest hot thing on a microphone have joined musical forces for the frenetically-paced “Video Phone,” which premiered on MTV and VH1 at midnight on Tuesday.

The gun-wielding pair take on paps, voyeurs and camera-headed guys in suits (no, really) as they make apparent nods to Betty Page and the wartime flag of Japan. Take a look-see and find out for yourself.

[From People]

I found it mostly unbearable, but both Beyonce and Lady Gaga are really hit-or-miss for me. I cannot shake those camera-headed guys. It’s a combination of the slithery way they were dancing and that weird thrusting thing they were doing with their heads. Oh and the fact that they were camera heads. Looked like some messed-up wonky Alice in Wonderland sh*t.

In other Lady Gaga news, she had her “Gossip Girl” cameo this week and sang “Bad Romance.” It was one of those blink-and-you-miss-it performances, but Gaga still got all overly-intense and quasi-pompous about it.

Emerging from behind two doors, Gaga hunched over in her red gown and, surrounded by beefy male dancers, kind of floated around the stage and climbed a ladder while singing her new single. Then the show resumed its threesome storyline from last week.

When Gaga recently spoke to MTV News about the performance, she said that she wanted to use it to take her sometimes outside-of-the-box persona and bring it to the mainstream. “I really sat down with the writers,” she said. “I was, like, ‘Look, I want to do this, and the reason I want to do this is because I am trying to say something that is not mainstream in a mainstream capacity. So, if I can say it on your show, that would be a real coup d’état for me as a performance artist.’ “

[From MTV]

Wow. I’m not even sure how to respond to that. It’s so ostentatious, and we’re talking about “Gossip Girl.” How can you make that sound like art? To be fair, Lady Gaga didn’t make it sound like art, it’s just clear that she’s really trying to. For some reason I tend to give her more leeway in terms of her bizarre behavior, but it’s hard for me to say, “Oh she’s just serious and professional about everything she does.” It’s on the CW. No points for artistic greatness.

Here’s Lady Gaga at LAX on November 10th. Images thanks to WENN.com .