Fifteen years ago, Lady Gaga released EP The Fame Monster, a reissue of her 2008 debut album The Fame. In a stark contrast to its predecessor, the pop star’s EP tracks chronicled the sordid and grotty bits of celebrity. Among the four new songs on the reissue was “Telephone,” a single Gaga had reportedly intended for Britney Spears, but eventually found its way back to her and was recorded as a duet with Beyoncé.
The track and its cinematic, nine-and-a-half minute music video have become the stuff of art house/music lore, with fans of both Gaga and Beyoncé clinging onto any hint that a sequel to “Telephone” is on the horizon.
On Wednesday, Gaga offered a glimpse of hope for those waiting for the next part of Gaga and Bey’s getaway, whose video ended on a promise: “To Be Continued…” During a recent sit-down with Vanity Fair, Gaga took the publication’s popular lie detector test and was almost immediately asked about “Telephone.” The artist gave a cautious “yes” when asked if the music video would be continued, but paused before admitting, “I don’t know,” after being asked when.
Gaga was then handed a photo of Beyoncé and asked if the Cowboy Carter Grammy winner would be joining her in the video, to which Gaga replied, “Maybe.” The lie detector confirmed Gaga’s truth-telling, before the interviewer followed up with, “Is it taking forever because of scheduling conflicts with Beyoncé?” This time, Gaga gave a resounding, “No.”
Elsewhere in the clip, Gaga confirmed that her alter ego, Jo Calderone of “Yoü and I,” is dead. “This person is no longer with us,” Gaga said of her Born This Way era character.
Gaga’s seventh studio album, Mayhem, is slated for release on March 7. The artist has teased the new album with singles “Disease” and “Abracadabra,” which arrived in the middle of the 2025 Grammy Awards.
“The album started as me facing my fear of returning to the pop music my earliest fans loved,” Gaga previously shared in a statement about the upcoming LP, describing her return to the creative process as “reassembling a shattered mirror: even if you can’t put the pieces back together perfectly, you can create something beautiful and whole in its own new way.”
