Music videos past and present
I love music videos - watching them, writing about them and making my own on extremely limited budgets. Great videos are part of the reason I like pop music.
I know this blog has a rubbish name but to be honest you're all lucky I didn't call this something like 'Video Filled The Internet Fnar'.
Unfortunately some record companies don't like other people embedding their videos in order to give them more publicity, so I apologise on their behalf if any of the videos I post are no longer available.
Feel free to go to Youtube.com and complain about this daft precedent (or just search for the video there instead).
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A bunch of Scandinavian semi-naturists come over all Rite Of Spring when a dude with a drumkit turns up. Excellent enough to make me want to go and purchase a) a quad bike b) a drumkit RIGHT NOW. It’s a bit chilly for all the rest of it though (totally SFW).
Ms Dynamite leads a crack squad of animated ninjas in a rooftop fight against some samurais and a robot minotaur (!), and (as far as I know) uses some actual dynamite for the first time in her music video career! The team’s efforts are rewarded with some takeaway Pukka Pies and plenty of chips. Absolutely brilliant.
(h/t @lexpretend)
Wow. This is such a vast improvement on Circus that I just had to go and watch this again three times! Britters wakes up from a night of orgiastic hedonism and wonders where all these random pairs of knickers came from (as you do). Gradually her memory returns and she gets flashbacks of wild choreography, and by the middle eight she’s sobered up and is ready to face the outside world.
Britney seems to be telling us that she will always be mucky on the inside, and that the medicated knotted-jumper wearing American Mom facade is her clever way of managing the media while she gets on with the important business of Partying On behind closed doors. Unfortunately for Britney we can all see her dark roots glaring out from underneath that platinum blonde wig of hers.
A heart-wrenching ballad like this one deserves a high-impact video to go with it, and Jazmine doesn’t disappoint. I love how the colours gradually waft away - her emotions are involuntarily leaking off her like so much cigarette smoke - and everything not in her immediate vicinity is blurred into monochrome insignificance.
You almost think Jazmine is going to rupture something in the middle eight, but then the tiger leaps up and destroys all the violins so they make a heart shape! Awesome!
Some folk gubbins from a dude who did a song for Narnia II: Lion Redux, with an amazing video that I definitely definitely didn’t nick straight off the Graun’s ‘top viral videos of the week’ list. This really is lovely - I wonder if clever tricks with stop-motion will feature heavily in the rest of 2009?
(My favourite bit is where she does a twirl at 2.48.)
