Jonas Akerlund is a Swedish music video director, who has made many memorable music videos in his long career.
He has made music videos for many artists such as Madonna, The Prodigy, Lady Gaga and Metallica. After watching many of his videos it his evident he has his own style of both colourful visuals as seen in Lady Gaga's 'Telephone' video as well as dark violent content as seen in The Prodigy's 'Smack My Bitch Up'.
One of his more critically acclaimed videos was Madonna's 'Ray of Light', which took home 5 awards at the MTV Video Music Awards. The video features a time lapse of everyday life along with scenes of Madonna dancing against a green screen background, who speeds up as the song progresses.
Another popular video by Jonas Akerlund is 'Telephone' by Lady Gaga. It is a very colourful video which unconventional and strange concepts throughout such as Lady Gaga wearing nothing but police tape along with the sunglasses created out of half smoked cigarettes. The narrative follows Beyonce helping Lady Gaga escape from prison before they poison everyone in a diner, still on the run as the video ends.
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