lol wth was that about. No wonder you no longer hear of Joss Stone
Yeah. A guy being tortured, nearly pushed off buildings and shot by
firing squads...even Valerie Solanas would think Joss was being nasty
to the bloke in the video.
Joss' albums still sell well, but she hasn't had a hit single since this
disaster was released.
You can see what it was going for, but it crosses *way* over from being a tongue-in-cheek celebration of female empowerment to being... genuinely sadistic if not psychotic.
You get the impression *it* thinks it's funny, like one of those moments where one person in a group takes the banter *way* over the line but doesn't realise it or see a problem... oblivious to the fact that the laughter has become more awkward then died off altogether and the rest of the group is standing in disbelief that their friend has just outed themselves as a psycho.
If it went much further, it'd be like one of those American documentaries on sadistic female serial killers that Quest repeats endlessly on saturday nights.
Wikipedia claims that the video was produced by Stone herself without help from EMI. Which explains the not-quite-right, slightly home-made feel, but- more seriously- shows what happens when you take the record company PR filter out of the equation.
For all that PR types (rightly) get stick for being w*****s, you do get the impression that they would have seen exactly how badly this came across (if only because they were detached enough from its actual production to see it with fresh- and shocked- eyes).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy93099sR-w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4JxY-kiN2Y
"Rock Me Tonite" :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s6WHJWdD9U
"The Worst Video of all Time" said the Word Magazine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120225134834/http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/how-bloody-awful-this
lol wth was that about. No wonder you no longer hear of Joss Stone
Yeah. A guy being tortured, nearly pushed off buildings and shot by
firing squads...even Valerie Solanas would think Joss was being nasty
to the bloke in the video.
Joss' albums still sell well, but she hasn't had a hit single since this
disaster was released.
OMFG.
You can see what it was going for, but it crosses *way* over from being a tongue-in-cheek celebration of female empowerment to being... genuinely sadistic if not psychotic.
You get the impression *it* thinks it's funny, like one of those moments where one person in a group takes the banter *way* over the line but doesn't realise it or see a problem... oblivious to the fact that the laughter has become more awkward then died off altogether and the rest of the group is standing in disbelief that their friend has just outed themselves as a psycho.
If it went much further, it'd be like one of those American documentaries on sadistic female serial killers that Quest repeats endlessly on saturday nights.
Wikipedia claims that the video was produced by Stone herself without help from EMI. Which explains the not-quite-right, slightly home-made feel, but- more seriously- shows what happens when you take the record company PR filter out of the equation.
For all that PR types (rightly) get stick for being w*****s, you do get the impression that they would have seen exactly how badly this came across (if only because they were detached enough from its actual production to see it with fresh- and shocked- eyes).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyx6JDQCslE
This was often Number 1 in the "100 Worst Videos" chart they used to do on VH1, although sometimes Cliff Richard's Wired For Sound took the top spot.
WROST BAND
Blessing of the Future and Last Moment was upper peace of S**e
but Kamijo videos were wayyy better than Jupiter ones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PziD0pHju_I