The next week's likely no.1 (although I hope Ella Henderson holds on) is Oliver Heldens vs Becky Hill - Gecko (Overdrive) and is yet another dance smash - doesn't really do anything for me but it may grow.
Not mentioning the weird tentacles/horror shit, I do get annoyed with the complete ridicule by youth culture of people over a certain age having sex. I also thought that the boy and girl were brother/sister which really would have turned my stomach but it turns out he's the boyfriend.
I can't see any music channel touching this one - guess they'll skip it completely or just show the first half minute as a montage.
The next week's likely no.1 (although I hope Ella Henderson holds on) is Oliver Heldens vs Becky Hill - Gecko (Overdrive) and is yet another dance smash - doesn't really do anything for me but it may grow.
Not mentioning the weird tentacles/horror shit, I do get annoyed with the complete ridicule by youth culture of people over a certain age having sex. I also thought that the boy and girl were brother/sister which really would have turned my stomach but it turns out he's the boyfriend.
I can't see any music channel touching this one - guess they'll skip it completely or just show the first half minute as a montage.
I like that video.
It is a gender role reversal...the woman growing tentacles represents her "penis" where she is "dominating" the man
There are lots of great songs protesting against the futility and inhumanity of
war - "Fortunate Son" by C ClearWater Revival, "The Call Up" by the Clash,
"War" by Edwin Starr, Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall" ....
...and then we have this patronising, OTT Culture Club atrocity, which is
enough to make a Peace News -reading CND Quaker join the SAS.
Sorry, don't know how to do links, but 'Dancing in the Street' by Bowie and Jagger made me cringe at the time, and when it suddenly appeared in an episode of 'Family Guy' I caught recently, the effect was the same.
I think Bowie's brilliant, but....yarrrghhhh.
I love that video so funny:D
They had about 20 minutes to film that if remember rightly.
This was JUST released this week, but Robin Thicke's new video Get Her Back is one of the worst videos that I have ever seen. Such a shame because it is actually a decent song but the video really ruined it for me. It's creepy and I even got nightmares from it.
Two works of genius! So brilliantly cheap and cheerful videos with hilariously bad dancing BUT they were actually MEANT to be bad! That just makes them brilliant, in my books. So funny because they were soooo deliberately awful!
No big deal to me, but if it came out today you can imagine someone would spot it and it'd soon be all over the Internet- "Ew, ew, gross.... shave you disgusting b****... I heard she has more than 1/2 cm of landing strip down there... I'm suing for trauma... yadda yadda".
Two works of genius! So brilliantly cheap and cheerful videos with hilariously bad dancing BUT they were actually MEANT to be bad! That just makes them brilliant, in my books. So funny because they were soooo deliberately awful!
Blur did the same intentionally tacky use of bluescreen for Girls and Boys. Similar to that ironic use of cheesy stock photography they were using on their albums around that time...
Even so, I suspect if they'd known it was going to be a big hit, they'd have spent more than $5 on the video...
Two OTT divas and lots of scantily clad men? There's a certain type of gay man
who LOVES stuff like that, and probably enough of them bought the song to
make it a hit, regardless of the low-budget video! ;-)
Two OTT divas and lots of scantily clad men? There's a certain type of gay man
who LOVES stuff like that, and probably enough of them bought the song to
make it a hit, regardless of the low-budget video! ;-)
Funny you should say that, because I thought something similar- it's a video that suggests it was originally marketed at that very specific demographic.
I'm willing to be they thought it might be a niche club hit, and budgeted it accordingly (and threw in lots of scantily clad men to make up for its obvious cheapness!)
Funny you should say that, because I thought something similar- it's a video that suggests it was originally marketed at that very specific demographic.
I'm willing to be they thought it might be a niche club hit, and budgeted it accordingly (and threw in lots of scantily clad men to make up for its obvious cheapness!)
Remember the Simpsons' episode "Fear of Flying?" When Moe throws a record
out of the bar, it hits Smithers. Smithers is initially annoyed, but delighted when he
discovered the record is "It's Raining Men!"
lionel ritchie - hello
olivia newton john - let's get physical
billy joel - uptown girl (the video to the westlife cover version is even worse)
r. kelly - trapped in the closet
I seem to remember Richie saying he'd wanted to keep the bust as a souvenir or something (*) after the video was done, but by the time he asked about it, it had been thrown into the trash and was irrepairably damaged!
(*) Didn't get the impression it was for particularly egotistical reasons, Lionel Richie doesn't really come across like that...
billy joel - uptown girl (the video to the westlife cover version is even worse)
Could never quite put my finger on what it was (and is) about Uptown-f******-Girl I disliked so much, but I don't think it had anything to do with the video.
It's a catchy song, yet there's something annoying or grating that I dislike about it at some fundamental level. Something that was probably seriously exacerbated by it being at number 1 forever- and irritatingly overplayed- when I was seven years old and had just started following the charts.
The video I vaguely remember being an 80s neon pastiche of late-50s/early-60s American culture, and I only probably recall even that much because bits of it appeared on TV more recently.
Ah, where she makes a bust of Lionel with cornflakes for hair.
He follows a blind student from a class he teaches everywhere she goes and makes crank calls to her house breaking out into song and saying i love you and then hanging up, but then she makes a fugly statue of his head and it turns out she actually loves her creepy stalker back.
I also think its pretty inappropriate to ask a blind person 'is it me your looking for'..:D
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The video, however, is complete WTF?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcZMCMI24gs
Not mentioning the weird tentacles/horror shit, I do get annoyed with the complete ridicule by youth culture of people over a certain age having sex. I also thought that the boy and girl were brother/sister which really would have turned my stomach but it turns out he's the boyfriend.
I can't see any music channel touching this one - guess they'll skip it completely or just show the first half minute as a montage.
I like that video.
It is a gender role reversal...the woman growing tentacles represents her "penis" where she is "dominating" the man
war - "Fortunate Son" by C ClearWater Revival, "The Call Up" by the Clash,
"War" by Edwin Starr, Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall" ....
...and then we have this patronising, OTT Culture Club atrocity, which is
enough to make a Peace News -reading CND Quaker join the SAS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBd5W9IA7n0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWOzUzJd6wM&hd=1
It's a spoof but it could have happened!
I love that video so funny:D
They had about 20 minutes to film that if remember rightly.
Madonna - Cherish (Mermen for crying out loud)
Madonna - True Blue
Donna Summer - Feels Like I'm In Love
Actually, I like "Cherish". And what's wrong with Mermaids and Mermen? It's a
rock video- anything could happen!
This was JUST released this week, but Robin Thicke's new video Get Her Back is one of the worst videos that I have ever seen. Such a shame because it is actually a decent song but the video really ruined it for me. It's creepy and I even got nightmares from it.
Lol at Everything's Ruined
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Lec3m1pLY
I love the way it tries to be sexy and instead comes across as incredibly
campy.
Apparently the video was originally recorded as a segment for an Italian TV show, which accounts for its, er... style.
Speaking of "if you look closely" there's one point where a dancer *very* briefly flashes a bit of underarm fuzz. (Warning; whole bloody video probably NSFW!)
No big deal to me, but if it came out today you can imagine someone would spot it and it'd soon be all over the Internet- "Ew, ew, gross.... shave you disgusting b****... I heard she has more than 1/2 cm of landing strip down there... I'm suing for trauma... yadda yadda".
Blur did the same intentionally tacky use of bluescreen for Girls and Boys. Similar to that ironic use of cheesy stock photography they were using on their albums around that time...
To be fair, in that case, the problem isn't that it's *that* bad a video, it's that it's a godawful song.
Even so, I suspect if they'd known it was going to be a big hit, they'd have spent more than $5 on the video...
Two OTT divas and lots of scantily clad men? There's a certain type of gay man
who LOVES stuff like that, and probably enough of them bought the song to
make it a hit, regardless of the low-budget video! ;-)
Funny you should say that, because I thought something similar- it's a video that suggests it was originally marketed at that very specific demographic.
I'm willing to be they thought it might be a niche club hit, and budgeted it accordingly (and threw in lots of scantily clad men to make up for its obvious cheapness!)
Remember the Simpsons' episode "Fear of Flying?" When Moe throws a record
out of the bar, it hits Smithers. Smithers is initially annoyed, but delighted when he
discovered the record is "It's Raining Men!"
olivia newton john - let's get physical
billy joel - uptown girl (the video to the westlife cover version is even worse)
r. kelly - trapped in the closet
Ah, where she makes a bust of Lionel with cornflakes for hair.
Do you think Lionel Richie's clay head was modelled on...
...the baddie from a late-70s Doctor Who story?
I seem to remember Richie saying he'd wanted to keep the bust as a souvenir or something (*) after the video was done, but by the time he asked about it, it had been thrown into the trash and was irrepairably damaged!
(*) Didn't get the impression it was for particularly egotistical reasons, Lionel Richie doesn't really come across like that...
Could never quite put my finger on what it was (and is) about Uptown-f******-Girl I disliked so much, but I don't think it had anything to do with the video.
It's a catchy song, yet there's something annoying or grating that I dislike about it at some fundamental level. Something that was probably seriously exacerbated by it being at number 1 forever- and irritatingly overplayed- when I was seven years old and had just started following the charts.
The video I vaguely remember being an 80s neon pastiche of late-50s/early-60s American culture, and I only probably recall even that much because bits of it appeared on TV more recently.
He follows a blind student from a class he teaches everywhere she goes and makes crank calls to her house breaking out into song and saying i love you and then hanging up, but then she makes a fugly statue of his head and it turns out she actually loves her creepy stalker back.
I also think its pretty inappropriate to ask a blind person 'is it me your looking for'..:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1m-8PvpSBw
* More like "This Is Sh*t", amirite? ;-)