Lady Gaga announces sequel to Telephone video "surely coming"

Gaga’s action-packed collaboration with Beyoncé is to get a follow-up.

It’s probably the most lavish and ambitious video of Lady Gaga’s career and now it seems there’s to be a round two. Yes, we won’t have to hold the line very much longer, because a sequel to Telephone is happening.

Gaga revealed that the new track, which will appear on her forthcoming ARTPOP album, will premiere during her headline concert at the iTunes Festival in London’s Roundhouse on 1 September.

The original video for Telephone was an epic nine-minute thriller, which saw Gaga team up with Beyoncé (she's a singer – you might have heard of her) for a quick spell in jail, followed by a quick stop at the local diner to slip a little something into everybody’s pancakes.

Speaking to Kiss FM, Gaga revealed the new video “is surely coming. I am very excited to be filming it and doing it.”

Telephone’s director & co-writer Jonas Akerlund, who also worked with Gaga on Paparazzi, is back on board. Says Gaga: “Working with Jonas Akerland for Paparazzi as well as the ‘Telephonevideo was such an incredible experience and to finish this trilogy will be great… We’ve already written it; it’s gonna be fantastic. I can’t wait.”

But will the new track feature Queen Bey? There’s no word yet. But there was one other snippet of collaboration info. While potty-mouthed rapper Azealia Banks may have released a teaser of a Gaga collaboration Red Flame earlier this year, Lady Gaga has confirmed that Azealia won’t be featuring on ARTPOP. Red Flame might, however, turn up on Azealia’s long-awaited debut album. (Get on with it, Banksy!)

Relive the moment Gaga and Beyoncé put the entire world off honey in the Telephone video.

Chart Facts

Lady Gaga recently celebrated her second million-selling single in the UK. Bad Romance passed the big one last week. Her biggest seller is still good old Poker Face.

Telephone was Lady Gaga’s last Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart, reaching the summit in early 2010.

According to latest Official Charts Company figures, Telephone is Gaga’s fourth best-selling single, and has shifted over 690,000 copies. In Beyoncé’s hit list, it comes in third, edging ever closer to Single Ladies.