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By Larry Yepez Jr.

There is major drama in Gaga's world this week! According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lady Gaga and her longtime choreographer and creative director LaurieAnn Gibson have parted ways.

The website MediaTakeOut, which revealed LaurieAnn's departure, reported that ongoing creative tension culminated in a "bitter argument" over the telephone last week, during which LaurieAnn got the boot.

"A lot of things were said, and it was very heated," the website reported. "Laurieann ended up hanging up and saying she was suing." Lady Gaga's spokesman said the duo's commercial relationship was over.

Their partnership started back in 2007, when Gaga was fresh meat at Interscope Records. LaurieAnn started working as her choreographer, then became one of the creative minds behind Gaga's videos.

Interscope Records has had credits choreographing nearly every Lady Gaga video released so far, including "Poker Face", "Just Dance", "Telephone", "Alejandro", and "Born This Way". And she has also worked closely with the singer on her live performances and massive stage shows.

Recently LaurieAnn had to balance the release of Gaga's Born This Way album with a few projects of her own: she launched the BET dance competition show Born to Dance, E!'s dance reality show The Dance Scene, and directed Gaga's Emmy-winning HBO concert special.  All this success, according to the buzz, apparently had turned LaurieAnn into somewhat of a diva herself.

The turmoil all started when LaurieAnn was asked about her thoughts on Gaga's ongoing comparison to Madonna. This little question led to a storm of controversy when the comments surfaced. LaurieAnn spoke of the ways in which she modeled Gaga's visual aesthetic on Madonna's work.

LaurieAnn said that Madonna "should be bitter, because I did it on purpose, and you can quote me. I did it on purpose because for all those kids who believe that you can’t, I wanted to let them feel that you can. And that’s what I represent, that’s what Gaga represents.”  Gaga on the contrary denied her modeling of Madonna’s style and work.

These comments were the beginning of the tension between the two. And the rift seemed to continue once LaurieAnn began directing Gaga's videos. LaurieAnn, who co-directed Gaga's Judas video, said she was uncomfortable with the way the tune confronted religion.

"At one point, there was two completely different views and after the third glass of wine, I was like, 'Listen, I don't want lightning to strike me. I believe in the Gospel and I'm not going there," LaurieAnn said.

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Well, that was certainly worth the wait.

On Thursday night (March 11), after months of anticipation, leaked on-set photos and rather excellent adventures in hairstyling, Lady Gaga's epic video for "Telephone" finally premiered during E! News, and, honestly, if there's something she didn't cram into the clip, well, then we missed it.

"Telephone" is nine-plus minutes of everything you could possibly love about Gaga (and her co-star Beyonce) only amped up to the Nth degree.

It's ambitious, funny and clever, playing much more like a short film than a music video. There are opening and closing credits, elaborate, over-the-top (or barely there) costumes, and a whole lot of celebrity cameos. This cost money, this took time, this was a work of love, blood, sweat and tears (and a whole lot of hairspray). This was worth it.

With "Telephone," Gaga has entered the rarest of pop stratospheres, up there with the Madonnas and the, gasp, Michael Jacksons. We're not comparing talent, just ability: ability to wow, to enthrall and put on a show — one can only hope is continued sometime very soon. What did you think of the video? (MTVNews)

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Check out these official photos from Lady Gaga's highly anticipated video for her latest single 'Telephone' featuring Beyonce!

To say we’re anticipating this one would be an understatement, particularly in light of GaGa’s much-touted statement:

 "Sorry for the 'Bad Romance’ video – as this is that much better."

 Hmmm...We thought 'Bad Romance' was pretty good. Did you? We can't wait to compare 'Video Phone' and 'Telephone'! Can you? Check out more behind-the-scenes photos after the jump! (ThatGrapeJuice)

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Not only was Lady Gaga's new single "Bad Romance" available on iTunes starting Monday, but it also soared to the Top 20 after just a few hours of sales. Go, Go Gaga! Also available is a detailed tracklist for the 8 additional songs available on The Fame Monster, the re-release of Gaga's first album The Fame -- which features a new song, "Telephone," featuring Beyoncé!

Yes, Beyoncé and Gaga will be making more beautiful music together! Gaga was on-set last week when Beyoncé shot her latest video, "Video Phone," and now Beyoncé is featured on Gaga's new song, "Telephone."  We wonder what's with all the phone references?  Hopefully the duo will team up otra vez para el video de "Telephone" soon!

We picture leotards... lots and lots of leotards! [PerezHilton]

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