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Celeb News: Ke$ha's "Blow" director addresses Lady Gaga 'unicorn' flap
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Ke$ha's "Blow" director addresses Lady Gaga 'unicorn' flap
Ke$ha's 'Blow' Director Addresses Lady Gaga 'Unicorn' Flap
Unicorn cameos in 'Born This Way' and 'Blow' videos is 'just weird coincidence,' Chris Marrs Piliero tells MTV News.
The brand-new videos for Ke$ha's "Blow" and Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" couldn't be more different. But fans on the Web have been comparing the clips, thanks to a special cameo the two videos have in common. With unicorns appearing in both "Blow" and "BTW," some Gaga fans are accusing the K-Dollar of stealing from their Mother Monster.
But MTV News spoke to "Blow" director Chris Marrs Piliero, who explained that it's pure coincidence his video and the Nick Knight-directed video both feature unicorns.
"It's very odd. It's one of those weird things, and I think a lot of people on the Internet don't grasp the sense of time [that goes into making videos]. Some Gaga fans, they don't realize that just because it was announced there might be a unicorn [in Gaga's video], it's like, we didn't film the video after that announcement," he said.
"It's like [the movies] 'Dante's Peak' and 'Volcano' and then there was 'Armageddon' and 'Deep Impact.' I don't know, I know when things like that happen when I was a part of the audience, I was like, 'That's weird and fishy,' but now being on the other side, it's just weird coincidences," he explained. "What are the odds of that?"
In fact, Piliero had a gut feeling that he should use unicorns many, many moons ago and he thought Ke$ha was the right artist to join with the mythological creatures onscreen.
"Ke$ha was looking to make kind of something different, a video that was cool and random, and I had this idea running in my head with just the idea of unicorns," he recalled. "If I massacred unicorns, they could bleed rainbows. I'm a fan of violence and I'm always trying to find a way to make it OK."
The rainbow-spewing unicorns weren't the only cameo that Piliero hoped to nab. He also wanted "Dawson's Creek" star James Van Der Beek to appear in the clip. "He's such an awesome guy. He was down for it," he said. "He had seen the Black Keys video [I shot] and he was stoked on the idea. It was so much fun. He and Ke$ha kind of went for all the craziness. I think he has a fantastic comic side. He's good at being naturally funny. It's about the delivery."
Ke$ha, of course, was onboard for all the zaniness. "Before we started filming, we had quite a few talks. She was adamant you can't back away from the crazy; everything about the idea she loved and she enforced the fact that she wanted to embrace every aspect of it and really go for it," he recalled. "On set, she was having fun. She was like, 'I want to lick a unicorn.' It was rad working with her because there definitely wasn't a sense of her feeling awkward about stuff or detached; no ego. It felt like we had worked together before."
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/165...unicorns.jhtml 
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The "Blow" video was filmed and came out before BTW did, so what are people even speaking about? 
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Obviously Ke$ha didn't copy GaGa, and even of she did, I had no idea Unicorns were copyright to her director.
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I havent seen one Gaga stan accuse K of copying that
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Queen Mimi did it first
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Originally posted by L/\DY G/\G/\
I havent seen one Gaga stan accuse K of copying that
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In fact you didn't enter to the "Blow" thread.
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Originally posted by Haus_of_Nicole
When Lady Gaga copies Madonna's song from the '80s it's a big deal, but when Ke$ha's entire career is a cheap caricature of what Lady Gaga did last year it's glossed over by ATRL.
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That's just a little sip of the tea spilled by the monsters on that thread. Now, sip for yourself:
http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?t=114039&page=3
(Starting at third page)
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It doesnt matter, it's a ****ing unicorn 
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Now gaga fans are accusing her of ripping of mythical creatures?
Stop the madness 
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It doesnt matter, it's a ****ing unicorn |
Tell that to Nicole
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Originally posted by zach
The "Blow" video was filmed and came out before BTW did, so what are people even speaking about? |
Gaga got a unicorn tattoo before Ke$ha's video. Also this jacket.
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Originally posted by MrCookiepants
Gaga got a unicorn tattoo before Ke$ha's video. Also this jacket.
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But... she didn't invent unicorns?!
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Originally posted by Last Boy on Earth
Queen Mimi did it first
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Originally posted by MrCookiepants
Gaga got a unicorn tattoo before Ke$ha's video. Also this jacket.
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Ok?
Mariah Carey have a unicorn in her music video way before Lady Gaga have a tattoo of a unicorn.
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Don't you dare tell Gaga stans she didn't invent unicorn, cause they'll swear all up and down this server that she did. You have no proof she didn't invent them, so until then, SHE DID.
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who ****ing cares?
people need to stop with the stupid ass comparisons
it's not like either of them have the copyrights to unicorns 
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Originally posted by Rockstar101
Don't you dare tell Gaga stans she didn't invent unicorn, cause they'll swear all up and down this server that she did. You have no proof she didn't invent them, so until then, SHE DID.
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I'm sorta upset he's even bothering to address this non-isssue/non-controversy at all.
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Originally posted by Rockstar101
Don't you dare tell Gaga stans she didn't invent unicorn, cause they'll swear all up and down this server that she did. You have no proof she didn't invent them, so until then, SHE DID.
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Generalizing a whole fanbase is really stupid.
Anyway, I agree with everyone saying this is just dumb. The media just likes to stir the lamest things up.
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It's obvious Ke$ha or her team or whomever copied the idea. Not because it's such a great idea, but to beat her to the punch. It's competitive out there. Gaga made it clear last year she would use unicorns in BTW in some way.
Besides, it's not the first time Ke$ha (or her team) have done it.
Now someone is going to say something retarded as **** like "Lady Gaga didn't invent unicorns!" and miss the whole point.
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tl;dr
Ke$ha did it better.
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I'm sorry, but that's such an odd coincidence if it really is. Yea yea, Gaga didn't invent unicorns etc, whatever, but it was totally her thing/concept even before the Born This Way video. I don't even pay that close attention to Gaga anymore like I used to but even I saw that.
I agree that there's no real controversy so there isn't really any need to address it. In this case, making a big deal out of something that doesn't exist (controversy) will only make it a big deal.
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