The main inspiration behind the song was Gaga's fear of suffocation as she felt that she seldom found time to just letting it go loose and have fun.
"Fear of suffocation—something that I have or fear is never being able to enjoy myself, 'Cause I love my work so much, I find it really hard to go out and have a good time. "I don't go to nightclubs, You don't see pictures of me falling out of a club drunk. I don't go—and that's because I usually go and then, you know, a whiskey and a half into it, I got to get back to work."
The phone addressed in the lyrics of the song is not a physical phone, but a person in her head telling her to keep working harder and harder.
Gaga originally wrote "Telephone", with Rodney Jerkins, for Britney Spears. however, Spears' label rejected it and Gaga recorded the song as a collaboration with Beyonce Knowles for The Fame Monster.
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