Lady Gaga’s music video “Telephone” has set the Internet on fire and subjected 15 million people to the pleasure of girl-on-girl action. Lady Gaga’s clearly not the first lady to love another lady in a music video — music videos LOVE gratuitous lesbian makeouts! Well, for the last 15-20 years.
You know what’s interesting/predictable? Despite the ubiquity of the lesbian makeout trope in music videos, rarely is the maker-outer the actual musician or a band member [even in queer-lady videos, of which, let’s be honest here lesbians-who-are-about-to-yell-at-me, there are not many good queer-lady videos] [The Eth, Indigo Girls, Tracy Chapman, kd lang, & 4 Non Blondes make their most well-played music videos totally sans lesbian content]. In fact, it’s usually male musical artists who feature “lesbian” themes in their videos. Notable girl-on-girl videos have come from Blink 182, Queens of the Stone Age, Aerosmith, 50 Cent, Rolling Stone, Nelly, Metallica, and Lords of Acid. AMONG OTHERS.
So, aside from Lady Gaga’s dyketastic Thursday sexplosion on “Telephone,” what other ladies have gone for the makeout?
Here’s just a few on the tip of our tongues:
1. Madonna – Erotica & Justify My Love
Erotica (1992) — Remember when Madonna was still edgy? Let us refresh your memory:
Madonna pretty much paved the sexual way for female musical artists, and she also made out with Amanda Cazalet in Justify my Love (1990). “Justify my Love” is so ’90s, and again we have her making out with a lady for the benefit of a dude, but there’s a part where she actually has sex on camera, which is one of a few reasons why this video was banned on most outlets… even from allegedly progressive MTV. Oh, ’90s Madonna, you endlessly beautifully raunchy world-changing creature.
2. Pink — Sober
Let’s not forget when Pink decided to make out with a girl, she made out with um, herself!
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3. Dragonette — I Get Around
Embedding unfortunately disabled by request, but in this video THE ACTUAL WOMAN FROM DRAGONETTE sings about how she likes to get around with lots of people, which includes lesbians and dudes. Audiostraddle recently caught Dragonette in concert, at an intimate lesbian club where Martina Sorbara was rocking an alternative lifestyle haircut.
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4. t.a.T.u. — All The Things She Said
Oh t.a.T.u, what else can we say about you that dear Stef hasn’t said already. Best/worst fake lesbians of all time.
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5. Other lady-bands with girl-on-girl videos include The Sounds’ Tony the Beat…
6. Shiny Toy Guns’ Le Disko. I wish Shiny Toy Guns really did play live concerts in clubs where cute lesbians make out with each other:
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And a few of the dude bands with girl-on-girl scenes:
Minus.Plus. — Love Song: I don’t really know what the context of this video is or what kind of story they are trying to tell or why they picked a lesbian couple to be the cute couple making out and walking on the beach for this video, but they sure are cute!
If you’re not into the Vans Warped Tour, you might want to watch it on mute. I personally loved the Vans Warped Tour. Beware; unhappy ending!
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Blink 182 — I Miss You: Blink 182 is wearing nice suits, and they miss you because you were always so full of life, jk why are all the girls in this video dead and/or catatonic? Oh! Except for the two ladies who are making out/fucking up each other’s lipstick. In the second half of the video, most of the girls wake up and stalk around ghostily in bad makeup.
She Wants Revenge — Written in Blood: What we have here is a straight male fantasy of a woman’s boyfriend picking a girl for her, and then her and that girl getting it on while he watches.
Tosca — Honey: Basically what happens here is someone from Germany is going to have to explain this 2002 German music video to me. Watch!
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Queens of the Stone Age — 3s & 7s: Like Girltrash meets Telephone meets a bunch of straight guys playing rock ‘n’ roll music.
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Simian Mobile Disco — Hustler: I think we’ve all happened upon this video simply because of the awesomely intensifying girl-on-girl sexy that takes place. And if you haven’t seen it yet, you’re in for a treat:
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In conclusion, more girls should make out with girls on camera.
Next:
Bravo goes to Babeland, queer porn casting, lazertits, sexy tumblr, photoshoots, carton characters & sexy sxsw.
KELL ON EARTH:
Kelly Cutrone of the amazing show Kell on Earth wouldn’t let Bravo get away with not airing her trip to sex-positive toyshop Babeland:
Why was it important to you that Bravo air this on TV and not just the web?
This is a really beautiful women’s story, with a subject (sex) that is hard to talk about, and where women have a lot fewer role models. I visited Babeland because my doctor’s receptionist talked to me about her sex life – one woman reaching out to another woman to get this information. And vibrators have been one of women’s best kept secrets. Our show is about women and power, and now housewives are going to watch me shopping for sex toys, and see it as a fun and celebratory thing. (editor’s note: Kelly picked up the Bunny Love Kit, the SaSi vibrator, and some lube.)
What did you have to do to convince Bravo to air it on TV? Were they afraid of making viewers uncomfortable?
Oh no, it wasn’t that, it just didn’t fit as well into the existing storyline, so I had to convince them to crop a few minutes of interoffice arguing in order to bring vibrators to women in America. Really, do we have to see my printer break one more time? But the president and VP of Bravo are both women, and they liked the clip because it was funny, cool, and geared toward women.
QUEER CASTING:
“Indie feminist pornographer Courtney Trouble announced that she will be managing adult talent through LittlePinkBook.biz. The agency is poised to fill the need for ethical, professional casting assistance for unique, authentic performers — including but not limited to alternative, BDSM, fetish, queer, lesbian, and trans performers.”
SHOT BY KERN:
Vice’s Shot by Kern series meets two British best friends for a naked photoshoot in the library! NSFW! (@vbs)
SEX TOYS: Review: The NJoy Sex Wand (@sugarbutch)
MORNING AFTER: The Walk of Shame kit: it exists now. (@69gadget)
LAZERTITS:
“For centuries the female bosom has been wrongfully held in the prison of maternal duty and manboy motor-boating. The time has come to blow the cell doors open for breasts! Howl for hooters! Get toasted by tits! Behold the Blazing boobs! It’s time to get ZAPPED!!!! LAZERTITS looks into the past and changes the future one broad at a time. What will YOU say when your kids ask where you were during the revolution? Don’t burn your bra, BLAST IT!!!” (@lazertits)
SEXY CARTOONS: Ten Sexiest Cartoon Musicians (@nerve)
SXSW: Putting The Sexy In SXSW 2010. (@coed)
VINTAGE PIN-UP:
Olivia Henderson and Stef Van Der Laan do a special photo shoot at Interview Magazine: “Vintage-inspired underpinnings in sheers and nudes create a new kind of naughty femininity, evoking painterly John Currin-esque poses and a playful sexuality. Girls just want to have fun.” (@intervew)
HOW WE SLEEP:
A new survey reveals how our pre-sleep habits vary between ethnicities: It’s actually kinda stereotypical, I almost feel like they made it up. But it’s not like negative stereotypes so. Who knows. Apparently white people are too tired for sex, and Asians love computers. (@nydailynews)
SEXY TUMBLR ALERT:
fuck yeah lady love has its own banner special made. Also, girls send in their coming out stories, which are super-cute and remind us of #wheniknew. But this is the NSFW Sunday, so I am also here to tell you there’ll be pretty girls making out and lots of your favorite lesbian celebutants.
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I can’t believe Simian Mobile Disco – Hustler is not included on this list. That is like the Holy Grail of girl makeout music videos.
ok i fail at reading I NOW SEE THE TINY BLURB AT THE BOTTOM OF THE ARTICLE. That shit should be at the top. Of every page. On this website. On every website.
thanks for your opinion
I just got a message when trying to play the Madonna video – “This video contains content by WMG and has been blocked in your country due to copyright restrictions.” DAMN YOU COPYRIGHT.
Ah damnit the Pink video is blocked by Vevo for the same reason!
I now have no confidence in being able to play the rest of them :( there needs to be a mirror for cases like these!
that’s how i feel when i try to go to the doctor for free and they’re like “this has been blocked in your country due to republican legislature restrictions.”
HAHAHAHAHA…though this reality is sad, this comment made me LOL today.
I’d say Madonna is still kind of edgy (at least controversial). She’s doing things no fifty++year old should (I’m a fan of aging with grace), it’s just our turn not to like it.
yeah but her face! her face upsets me! why did she get all that plastic surgery! how can she be edgy if she can’t move her forehead? I feel like totally immobilizing your entire face in order to conform to a patriarchal beauty ideal or to embody youth eternally makes it difficult for me to see what she does as rebelling. wrinkles would rebel.
I’m with Riese. Madonna’s face hurts my feelings.
Yes, she’s doing things that we find offensive. Plastic surgery might be way more mainstream than it used to be, but she’s still causing a reaction, which is what she’s always done.
but everyone is getting plastic surgery… there’s nothing edgy about it, it’s not a statement. i mean no one will even admit they’ve had it except kathy griffin and that girl from lacuna beach or the hills or something with the blonde boyfriend.
I do like Lady GaGa but she and the rest of the world has to realized that it is “Queen Madonna” who is and always will be the Queen of edgyness and art!!… Lady GaGa will always have her place but it will never be the Queen of Pop.. Just like Michael is to the King so shall Madonna be the Queen forever…Besides Madonna is nowhere done..LOL
Madonna has pretty much abdicated her throne and I believe Gaga is poised to take over given a couple more years. I was obsessed with Madonna my whole life. But I think it’s pretty much over, has anyone seen her face lately? Just saying.
When I saw “Erotica” on this list I got really fucking excited.
Awesome list Riese! Thank you for spending your entire weekend putting something like this together for constant-craving homos like myself.
Hustler by Simian Mobile Disco is by far the best one… There needs to be more videos with girl on girl for sure!!
-Jessica Rabbit is the hottest cartoon of ALL TIME! No matter the category.
-Pink’s ‘Sober’ video is is so disturbingly hot. I was getting ready for class and that stopped me in my tracks to watch.
-Normally I don;t condone being a whore but Martina Sorbara makes it so cute and playful. I love the ‘I Get Around’ video
I think I will bookmark this page. That way, when I have a bad day, I can come here and watch a video and feel better.
Garbage’s The World Is Not Enough has Shirley Manson-on-Shirley Manson action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUwBhvU_ydI
Nothing gets me more hot and bothered than a list. Please do not read that with sarcasm. I’m for serious. I Love Lists.
don’t forget the sounds – tony the beat ! i think there’s little gay in it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3VVOYskIAM
we indeed did not forget the sounds – tony the beat. it didn’t embed but it’s number 5 up thurr.
Autostraddle… marry me.
Queens of the Stone Age — 3s & 7s…
I couldn’t focus on the song… it was like grindhouse, and there was a dodge challenger and boobies, and…
I have NO clue what that video was about but I love it!
Ok, I don’t remember any games of telephone turning out like it did in Hustler. Otherwise, I would have attended a lot more sleepovers and summer camps.
Queens of the Stone Age “3s and 7s” looks like it was based off of “Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill!” which was a 70s sexploitation flick that Tarantino’s “Deathproof” was loosely based off of.
Fast cars, crazy hot women who also go-go dance… definitely a must-see. Lots of subtext and I think a little making out, but mostly ass-kicking.
That Simian Mobile Disco video freaked me out by the end. It was kind of savage! Whoa. And Pink making out with herself = hot.
Guess who’s reading the NSFW Sunday post while at work? THIS GIRL. But I can’t see the videos, so I’ll have to come back later. That’s how dedicated I am.
The lazertits description cracked me up!
I had that Simian Mobile Disco vid posted to the ole myspace for a long time. Love.
You forgot (or maybe it didn’t exist yet) Te Amo by Rihanna. Hot.
I’m from Germany but what should I explain about tosca – honey? obviously honey is good for your skin :) kinda reminds me of the l words lesbian turkish oil wrestling – in this case: lesbian german honey wrestling :D
pretty sure i broke the replay button on that hustler video..