Twitter Files: India.Arie Sounds Off On Lady Gaga And Her “Telephone” Video!

Posted on March 22nd, 2010 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: For Discussion, Hollyweird, Lady GaGa, News, Twitter Files

The criticism keeps coming in about Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” video. Last week India.Arie voiced her opinion that the video was going a bit too far via her Twitter account. Pop the hood for details.


India claimed her issue wasn’t with the the nudity in the video so much as the dark elements and unspoken back story that disturbed her. She also said Gaga’s influence and ability to turn the taboo into trend were also troubling. Here are the rest of her tweets:

India also shared a little story about meeting a young fan whose mother wouldn’t allow her child to watch the “Telephone” video!

Does anyone find it ironic that Miss “I Am Not My Hair” is going in on another artist about their image? Is her persona troubling to others as well, or do you think India should leave her alone?

Just curious how many of you agree with her about Gaga being socially irresponsible? Anybody else feel her videos are inappropriate for children to watch? What aspect of the video is the most problematic in your opinion?

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  • Sweetest Taboo

    Here come the Gaga stans/BeyBots….

  • Divine

    I hear what she’s saying.
    I just say Lady Gaga’s music is garbage.
    But I’m above 30.

  • K-mia

    jealous

  • jaye

    @bbgrl…Amen, sista. Amen.

  • jaye

    Anyone who believes that India Arie is “just hating” or “jealous” is young minded and lacks the mental capacity to comprehend dryer lint. JMHO.

  • NURSEJ

    I DONT BLIEVE INDIA ARIE HAS IT N HER CHARACTER 2 HATE ON ANYONE. TIMES HAV CHANGED AND UNFORTUNELY 4 D WORSE. WHEN DID HOMOSEXUALITY BCOME OK? WHEN DID SHOWIN UR BODY BCOME OK? D GIRL IS TALENTD AND I LUV D SONG ‘BAD ROMANCE’ BUT I HAV 2 AGREE, KIDS WILL IMITATE WHA DEY SEE, ESPECIALLY IF ITS DEEMD OK AND A VIABLE FORM OF A CAREER. ITS SAD, BUT TRU. WE NEED PPL LIKE INDIA BRINGN A DIFFERENT STANCE 2 D FOREFRONT, 2 OPEN IT UP 4 DISCUSSION AND MAKE US STEP UP AND B RESPONSIBLE 2 D GENERATION 2 COME.

  • Hannibal

    OF COURSE EVERYONE WHO HATES LADY GAGA IS GONNA DEFEND THAT BALD HEADED LEBRON JAMES! LADY GAGA TAKIN OVER!

  • MsConsciousOne

    @Hannibal, we are not defending her, we are standing in agreement.

  • Hannibal

    OH MY BAD, OF COURSE IT ISN’T HATING, BUT IF LADY GAGA WAS CRITICIZING SOMEONE, IT WOULD BE CONSIDERED HATING, I GET IT NOW, SMH!

  • http://bossip Cory’s Girl

    INDIA is the ish and that is real music the she puts out not this B/S that GAGA ane BEY BEY puttn out!

  • Kev

    Man I am a big India Arie fan. Although I’m not sure I agree she should address this situation in that manner, but she is a woman over the age of 30 and we all see alot of crazy things going on with children. Do you know children between the ages of 13-24 are catching HIV at an alarming rate?.. I think we need to step up and STOP accepting material from artist that could jeopardize our children’s future. We should continue to critique all unhuman acts. REAL TALK!!

  • K-mia

    India’s lyrics are average…she had one good album, and her song topics are repetitive. Im not crazy about Gaga but India Arie is much less interesting

  • Hannibal

    @K-MIA

    THANK YOU! SO TRUE!

    @PAM#2

    WELL THAT’S NOT FAIR!

  • realwoman

    “Does anyone find it ironic that Miss “I Am Not My Hair” is going in on another artist about their image? ”

    Are you all for real with this statement???? Since when on a ‘supposedly’ Black site would anyone insinuate that that song is anything but uplifting to our people??? Versus a negative song about the artists own personal image….more signs this site either got some serious OREOS running it or non blacks…..

  • Hannibal

    @BABYGIRL

    IF THIS WAS THE 50′S, INDIA ARIE WOULD BE A SUPERSTAR! BUT IT ISN’T, INDIA ARIE ISN’T RELEVANT, HER MUSIC HAS NOT CAUGHT UP TO THIS GENERATION!

  • always knew

    love India.Arie.

    Have none- SHUT UP.

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  • CAT EYES

    Well India,welcome to America!!The only place buffoonery can be called music!the only place idiocy can be called talent!And people wonder why black children are so far behind.People condoning Lady Gaga as an “artist”would do well not to have children.This is complete buffoonery!!—what kind of world are we in where a child knows how to do a “stanky leg” dance but can’t read!!!While black people are sitting here teaching their kids to dance to this garbage,white people are teaching their kids how to read stock market reports!!India just spoke up about it..

  • babygirl

    @ HANNIBAL WHATEVA!!!!!!! U BEEN SNIFFIN LADY GAGA CROTCH TOO LONG! ITS HER OPINION LIKE I SAID!! SO Y CALL NAMES!! THATS IGNORANT!

  • Sonny

    INDIA ARIE IS JUST MAD BECAUSE SHE LOOKS LIKE A DEGENERATE CHIMPANZEE WHO NEEDS BRACES..

  • http://perryone779@yahoo,com a rose by any other name #9304026339482056536 ™

    FU_K LADY GAG GAG!!SHE AINT HITTING ON SH_T!!

  • HANNIBAL IS STILL A CHILD MOLESTER

    @HANNIBAL…HOE SIT DOWN.

  • Hannibal

    ROFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • whoa

    THE HELL WITH GAGA AND HER GARBAGE MUSIC

  • LoriE.

    Jealousy has NOTHING to do with this.

  • Big Red…”My Office Hours Are From 9 To 5″

    India is right 100%, just wish other artists will speak up. I don’t care about GaGa or B’s trashy music. The music now days is just straight-up wack, and some of yall say we are hating….Please

  • hannibal does this for shizz and giggles

    i personnally don’t see whats creative about gaga killing a resturant full of people with poison.. can someone explain that to me

  • http://bossip lynette

    EVERY SINCE INDIA ARIE CAME TO THE MUSIC WORLD SHE HAS KEPT IT REAL, AS FOR HER OPINION I UNDERSTAND WHERE SHE IS COMING FROM, MUCH RESPECT INDIA!!

  • kalifa.williams@yahoo.co.uk

    gaga makes music for the homosexuals

    she endorses and promotes homosexuality like its a badge of honor…..

    at first she was a cool chick now she’s like a walking a$$hole, spewing $hiteous lyrics everytime she opens her mouth…..

    and she is bordering on anorexic…..look how dried-up she has gotten……..

    white people are so cliche

  • sepia830

    Personally I wish Lady Gaga and Beyonce would just disappear from the face of the earth.

    Oh and Hannibal too.

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    I heard a comedian tell his young audience that he felt sorry for them because when they get to be 40 they won’t have any music to listen to. He asked them what artists that are popular now
    would still be around when they are 40 and they couldn’t come up with any names besides Beyonce.
    How sad.

  • EshFresh

    I feel what india is saying but why isn’t she talken about bey too.

  • Tee-sha

    It’s okay to be different and have your own expression India arie talk about how she is not her hair!!!!!!!!! But when you are stanky rich everyone gonna hate cuz they don’t have your status believe me she wish she did not!!!

  • Sanjor

    @k-mia,
    why she got to be jealous because of her opionion? Everyone isn’t a hater or jealous.

  • Maevelove

    Look at the photo above. India is a beautiful Black woman, always has been. Gaga looks like she belongs in a rubber room. This is not rocket science.

  • Shay

    I think Lady Gaga’s 15 mins are ticking. BeyBey is one or two songs away from a song theif bombshell. Ms India needs to get on her grind and put out some new material.

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  • Mock Rock Star

    Sorry about my typos, but I hope U can understand my opinion on things

  • Gimmeabreak78

    Lol@ everyone’s comments.

  • miss ann

    Everyone that disagrees with another artist or criticizes another persons talent, style, etc is not jealous. That is a childish argument. It’s immature to say, “Yeah, well you’re just jealous.” No it means that person has a right to their own opinion even if it contrasts from yours.

  • princedonte

    I love neo soul but india has always bored me she has like 2 songs i like other than that i don’t care for her

  • Truth Tella

    India Arie STFU don’t talk about socially irresponsible when you made a song with a dude(Akon) that was makin it sound cool to be in prison…How can she call out Lady Gaga when Rihanna been whinning the poon up and flashing her cakes in the screen for awhile now…DON’T JUMP ON THE BANDWAGON AND CALL 1 PERSON OUT, GET AT ALL OF THEM!! Music nowadays is not kid friendly at all nor are the vids…Thats why parents need to step in cause BET/VH1/MTV are not kid friendly channels to begin with, so children shouldn’t be able to view material like this…Lady Gaga is using her freedom of speech and expression, she’s change and she brings a sense of normality to the outkasts of society, the ppl deemed weird and homosexuals to be who they wanna be and not be scared…EITHER U ACCEPT IT OR U DON’T, WHICHEVER U CHOSE WHO THE FU*& CARES!!

  • http://www.sexcrimedefenseattorney.com Joe

    Well, image is fine, but Gaga tends to live more in the land of cracked out and a little scary. I agree with Arie here.

  • lookahere

    Amazing, but not surprising that Irie would get more criticism than gaga. SMH

  • I’m bambi itch!

    gaga pulled some adam lambert type stuff. India gave her take on the matter.It was dark and killing people at the end was stupid.

    What happened to the old gaga? Now she looks and act like “Gollum”..

  • thatbrutha

    SO what GAGA put out something different.

    ITs about time the rest of these folks get some stones and use so creativity.

    STOP DOING THE SAME OLD BS

  • tj

    Lady Gaga’s Demon is more powerful than Beyonce’s Demon Sasha Fierce and they will split hell wide open if they don’t repent of this abomination!

  • instantgratitude

    I agree with India. I feel Lady Gagga is over the top to compensate for her talent. If she didn’t have a ‘gag’ she’d be any coffee house singer. I like some of her songs, but she is trying too hard to create a controversial or ‘most talked about’ persona that she’s forgetting how people may emulate her (poisoning, murder, sex, etc.) cause she makes it cool and fun to be over the top

  • Jazzhks

    bottom line India Arie is a hater

  • COCKDIEZEL

    AMERICA HAS TOO MANY HOMOSEXUALS AND YA’LL PROMOTE IT WAIT TILL JUDGEMENT DAY THE FIRE WILL BURN YA’LL.

  • resurrected

    I luv India and her last CD was some Fire and I totally agree with her Gaga is so obsessed with fame that she is willing to do anything.. India last CD helped me really get through a ruff spot in my life because her whole CD was so positive now if one of Lady Gaga fans turn to her for inspiration they will most likely commit suicide or turn into a dark person just like her but that is what her music promotes to the world…

  • Cj

    We all have the of creative expression. If you think that something someone does is not what you want to see or expose your children to then don’t support that. But then don’t feel that you are the moral majority and want everyone to accept your opinion.

    I mess with india.arie and am not a fan of gaga, but I feel that gaga is a grown woman who has another view of expressing herself.

  • Deb

    I seriously don’t think India.Arie is “hatin,”
    as some of the comments suggest. I merely think she’s coming from the perspective of a business veteran who is witnessing first-hand the decline of the music industry. Am I am fan of Beyonce? Yes. Is Lady Gaga doing her thing? Of course. Is India.Arie dead on — I would say yes.

  • TOO REAL

    IF JAY-Z HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS PEOPLE WOULD HAVE NOTHING TO SAY. THEY ARE UPSET BECAUSE IT GAVE THEM CAUSE TO THINK DIFFERENTLY ABOUT BEYONCE. SHE IS WHAT SHE IS – HUMAN AND IF BEYONCE IS BI- SO WHAT – HER HUSBAND IS TOO.

  • Wintz

    OMG @Ressurected

    U are so right!

  • Anonymous

    The sad part is artist like Gaga, Beyonce and Rihanna will continue to get mad press and awards because they have an image that sells. Who cares if their music is garbage and will not stand the test of time thirty years from now. Blame the record companies and the music industry.

  • DreTruth

    Speak your mind before they take it from you. GAGA is garbage. I agree with arie. Simple and plain.

  • Yogi

    Lady Gaga’s music is not even close to content that India Arie’s music possesses. Yeah Lady Gaga is in a diff. genre but pop artist can have great content, cough, Michael Jackson. To add, on another note, Arie also looks far better than the tranny looking Gaga. IMO, regardless of sales and who’s hotter right now, Arie > Gaga 24/7…365.

  • Taniesha Kennedy

    I agree……….the vidoe went TOOOOOOOOOOOOOO too.

  • QUEEN

    I AGREE WITH INDIA ARIE…BOTTOM LINE!!!!
    4RM THA QUEEN

  • mimi

    I’m all for creative expression..but it shouldn’t be to the point where it doesn’t make sense anymore.this was way over the top just for the sake of being “over the top” and it was quite disappointing i think

  • SAINTSINNO

    You’re sooo gay @Hannibal

  • resurrected

    DreTruth
    3/23/10, 10:12:am

    Speak your mind before they take it from you. GAGA is garbage. I agree with arie. Simple and plain.
    _____________________________________________
    Hello well they will not use my mind and body as no waste dump..

  • resurrected

    People are just so we these days and in this generation…. Stand for something for fall for everything most children don’t know what is good for them unless they are being exposed to a life style or images that they should never be exposed to in the first place. When I was young I didn’t have real life issues on my back because they was a job for my parents not me as I child.. I did not start to see real life issues until I was grown enough to have or create them..

  • Diva Doll

    India is absolutely RIGHT!

    The FAKE image Lady Gaga portrays is very troubling. People will defend her because they like how she’s “different” or because she sells millions of albums. The devil also has a strong influence on millions of people, but that is exactly what we should be trying to avoid rather than accept as modern art or freedom of expression.

    People are idiots, though, so I don’t expect many to understand.

  • minks100

    Will you sell yourself for the money?? hmmmmm

  • I like hittin men AND women in the back

    Have peeps becomes so brainless we need someone to think for us?…I dont care for her opinion for three reasons

    1.she posts on twitter so the hype can start, she’s not relevant right now and everyone knows twiiter is where desperate attention starved entertainers go….

    2. she hatin on the hottest thing in music right now, granted you don’t like Gaga or Beyonce… that’s fine, but their popularity and endless waterfall of cash is saying a vast majority like’s what their doing, I put my money on Gaga and Beyonce caring about those peeps rather than the naysayers….

    3. As a creative artist you should not be hating on another….especially when you ain’t got ish goin on right now, it makes you look desperate and attention whorish…

  • Maureen

    India doesn’t have to use gimmicks and be outrageous to make good music. That’s why she will outlast people like Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, etc. Don’t get me wrong, I kind of like Lady Gaga, but soon her image/act will feel tired. I will NEVER get tired of India.Arie because it never seems like she’s trying too hard. Those are just my two cents! ;)

  • B3 Fearless

    @I like hittin men AND women in the back

    Your post shows you didn’t even read what India.Arie posted because if you had you would have comprehended that she wasn’t hating and a few of her tweets appear to be responses to other tweets.

    Seriously, some one stating their opinion is not hating.

  • Kenny

    We all know that Gaga and Beyonce’s fans are robots, mind controlled freaks who cant think for themselves.

  • Kenny

    @I like hittin
    You seem idiotic so its safe to say that you follow girls who are providing nothing for your soul. Whats popular means nothing, these women will fall like others before them while people who make timeless music are still making timeless music. Sade, Barbara S., Bette Midler, etc not Gaga or Beyonce.

  • gigi9

    the vid is too much- gaga has so many young fans- its out of order- that girl doesnt look one bit happy in it

  • resurrected

    Ms Lady V

    Any people with no standards destory the world for everyone around them…

  • Moe

    @ Optimus Prime-Real Estate… you touched me brother! I co-sign India.Arie. These new artist take no social responsibility for creating a generation of cold, desensitize clone zombies.

  • Kenny

    Children use the word hate for an opinion, adults understands the word opinion. You really can tell who the Beyonce/Gaga fans are by their vocabulary, etc.. which shows one that these chicks that are worshipped are teaching nothing to these kids except whorism. If one isnt defending prostitutes on the streets then why defend prostitutes on stage?

  • gigi9

    another thing to note on the imagery is the flashing parts- disturbia contained them- rudeboy has this does. maybe its a far fetched opinion but i reckon it means one thing or another

  • gigi9

    funny all i stick to is animal planet and there are still things on there that bother me!but there are more than a million fans of the both of them. so we are in the minority with what we think. ow well i guess for some ignorance is bliss when more influential ppl voice themselves the madness will stop

  • gigi9

    kenny wat does it mean?

  • http://BOSSIPP LINDA

    THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO APPROVING THIS BEHAVIOR ARE STANS AND THE G.A.Y.S. SMH WRONG IS WRONG G,A,Y, OR NOT

  • MsCartagena

    At the end of the day it’s Art and I appreciate it!!..I see India’s opinion, but she does sound envious lol..

  • resurrected

    Beyonce says I knew you would take all my honey, that means something and I was shocked.

    Yeah what does that mean?

  • ThatBKChick

    I used to respect Lady Gaga, until she turned down the “we are the world for Haiti”. She claimed that she sees no relevance in doing it (to help poor black people)? But yet AKON, an African by decent is her music executive/president of her record label?

    Secondly, We have seen this all before (Ziggy Stardust (70′s), Grace Jones (80′s), Kellis (late 90′s-00), etc). There is nothing really refreshing about Gaga, with the exception there is honestly no one else on the market right now to compete with her except for Beyaki…in which she is riding her c lit, so that she can stay relevant. Beyaki has no talent and or writing ability like Gaga, why she is riding her so hard, is only so that Beyaki stays relevant….SMDH!!!

    Not hating…simply just saying…..

  • resurrected

    krakatoa

    That is because now days record companies only want to promote over sexed and very dark images which if you do pay attention is not India A image or music… She is not stupid she is saying something that man poeple think and speak on and I would listen to her music any day over L. Gaga…

  • resurrected

    ThatBKChick

    I don’t see anything positive about L Gaga peroid she does not inspire me to want to do good or better nothing in her music or image promotes that…

  • resurrected

    chris

    Well for that to be accomplish more parent would also have to get there head out of these celebrities azzez as well that is the man reason why the children like them as well trying to be and act like there parents… Children are innocent adults are not so most children are only exposed to what there parents are exposed too and a lot of parents act more like kids these days and most of them are children themselves…

  • I like hittin men AND women in the back

    @ 5*****chick YOU HAVE LADIES LIKE INDIA

    THEN YOU HAVE ***** LIKE BEYONCE , RIHANNA, AND GAGA
    _______________________________________
    Look how long india been in the game and how much money she made…lol…then look at Gaga and Beyonce…sit down ho…..

  • I like hittin men AND women in the back

    indie need to sit the f down, she look like mud….

  • DONNYBOY

    @ i like hittin men and women lol it takes more than dimes and nickels to make sense dummy.

  • Just Sayin

    I call some stans Dung Beatles because of the type of sh#it they like.
    :-)

  • sowhat

    i do not like india irie she is a hypocrite! she claimed she doesnt shave and does not wear weave and really dont like makeup yet now she is wearing it and i dont see her walking around with hairy armpits are legs plus she has a weave! i think she is ugly and insecure about her own talent and record sells. she needs to shut up and get a life. ugly dog face trick!

  • GODISLOVE

    That vedio is GARBAGE! It gives off bad messages to our youth. Artist should be more reponsible in what they potray to their fans! I hated the vedio and Lady GAGA needs to take her @$$ back to London and sell that crap over there. She is corrupting our youths minds!

  • BENZO

    @ Hanibal….you have NO clue what your talking about. Just thought someone should tell you. I was not born in the 50″s and I can completely relate to her. have you ever even listened to any of her lyrics. Probably not. You seem like you just like to talk about things you have no clue about.

  • AHHHHH HAAAA

    Someone please give thirsty “K-mia” above some
    attention her titts are out and shes being for
    some attention with these thirsty needy hoe comments!

  • AHHHHH HAAAA

    **BEGGING**

  • AHHHHH HAAAA

    GAG GAG AND BEYONCE MADONNA RIHANNA KANYE WEST COULDNT WAIT TILL MICHAEL JACKSON DIED.
    WHAT WE ARE SEEING ARE FOLKS TRYING TO PUSH THE
    ENVELOPE AND BE THE KING OR QUEEN OF POP BUT
    IT TAKES NATURAL TALENT WHICH NO ONE ABAOVE HAS EXCEPT MJ AND KANYE AND 50YRS TO MAKE!

  • bweeter

    seriously? SERIOUSLY? Lady Gaga and Beyonces trlephone vid was way over the top. I concur with India!! Bravo! For saying it loud!

  • Elana

    PEOPLE RAISE YOUR OWN CHILDREN. BUY BOOKS FOR THEM. READ TO THEM. TURN OFF THE TELEVISION.TAKE THEM TO THE LIBRARY.IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO SEE THAT YOUR CHILD SUCCEEDS IN LIFE. INDIA ARIE NEVER CRITICIZED LIL WAYNE. WHY IS SHE JEALOUS OF GAGA? SHE NEEDS TO DO HER OWN THING. MAYBE, IF SHE WOULD MAKE HERSELF LOOK MORE GLAMOROUS,SHE WOULD ATTRACT THE ATTENTION SHE SEEKS. INDIA IS A ROUGH LOOKING WOMAN. HER MUSIC IS NOT REALLY THAT APPEALING.

  • dammitmon

    mud? ….lawd have mercy, too funny! why can’t i stop laughin @ that hittin it from the back fool?

  • dammitmon

    he did NOT say mud….lol! I’m still laughin!!
    u off da chain :) not mud my goodness!

  • dammitmon

    i guess it’s because “mud” doesn’t have a face that it’s so damn funny..ha! ha!. Okay. I’ma stop laughin & pray 4 u now!!! :) :):)

  • Who Drank My Apple Juice!

    Buy an India Arie CD and a Lady Gaga CD, sit down and listing to each in its entirety… Then tell me if you really think India is hating. India is about inner peace, self love, unity and submits positive energy. Gaga is about chaos, violence, death, and brings negative energy

  • GoShawdy

    Gaga is boring. She has nothing on (my fave) Robert Palmer. Unless she has the skills, which she doesn’t, she’s just going to keep being boring. Keep wearing your rubber suits and color contacts, girl. The gullible people will keep buying it for 4 more years.

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    I want to know where I can buy the mismatched black/white boots that the weight lifter has on in the prison yard…. Someone help me please

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