My Super Bowl prediction is that the refs are going to come hard after the 49ers and there will be a lot of shots of Taylor Swift watching from the owner’s box and cheering every Travis Kelce play. The narrative has been set since the season began and the NFL knows how they want this story to end.
And with the ratings they’re going to get for this Super Bowl, who can blame them?
Final score:
Chiefs — 28
49ers — 14
Happy Super Bowl Sunday! This is a national holiday, as my old edition of Madden used to put it. Playing Madden, I discovered that the way to get to and win the Super Bowl was to always play with difficulty set to rookie. One time, in Franchise Mode, my team won 30 straight Super Bowls. And yet none of the players involved in setting that amazing record made it into the Hall of Fame.
As far as I can tell, no one in this video will be playing in this year’s Super Bowl.
Enjoy!
Today’s video is for the second single to be released from Mick Mars’s upcoming solo debut, The Other Side of Mars. The Other Side of Mars is scheduled to be released in February.
The video was directed by Norwood Cheek, who has also done music videos for Ben Folds Five, She & Him, The Connells, and Soul Coughing.
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At the both the imvdb and imdb, no director is listed for this music video but Dave Robinson directed the majority of Madness’s early music videos and it would not surprise me if he directed this one as well.
This video was put together just two weeks before it was released and the majority of the video is made up of clips featuring then-recent political and pop cultural events. (Keep an eye out for Han Solo and Jane Fonda, among others.) The scenes with the band were filmed at Kenwood Park and at the Venus Café, both in London.
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Today is LL Cool J’s birthday and our music video of the day comes from his fourth studio album, Mama Said Knock You Out.
This video was directed by Marcus Nispel, who would later go on to redirect reboots of several classic films, including Friday the 13th and Conan The Barbarian.
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After 60 years, The Rolling Stones are still at it, making music and filming music videos.
Their latest music video stars Nicholas Hoult and was directed by Calmatic, who has also done videos for Lil Nas X, Kendrick Lamar, Pharrell Williams, and Zayn Malik.
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In today’s music video of the day, Billy Joel lives the dream of every 1980s auto mechanic and works on Christie Brinkley’s car. Just as in real life, this video ends with Joel and Brinkley together. While it is often speculated that the song was written about Brinkley, Joel has said that it was actually inspired more by his earlier relationship with Elle Macpherson.
Billy Joel has also said that he didn’t enjoy making this video because a large group of bystanders kept yelling “Hey, Christie!” during shooting.
Director Jay Dubin also did music videos for John Mellencamp and REO Speedwagon.
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Today is Rod Stewart’s 79th birthday and today’s music video of the day is One More Time, taken from his 32nd studio album, The Tears of Hercules. Appearing with Stewart in this video are his actual backup singers, Amanda Miller, Holly Brewer, and Becca Kotte.
Rod Stewart, incidentally, holds the record for being the artist featured most frequently during MTV’s first day of broadcast. On August 1st, 1981, MTV featured eleven of his videos.
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Today is David Johansen’s birthday and our music video of the day features Johansen in the role of his alter ego, Buster Poindexter.
Johansen/Poindexter did this cover of Ray Charles’s classic song for a film called The Dream Team. The Dream Team may not be remembered for much today but it did feature an impressive cast — Peter Boyle, Stephen Furst, Christopher Lloyd, and Michael Keaton, all of whom are featured in this video.
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Elvis Presley would have been 89 years old today.
Elvis always said that one of his biggest regrets was that he never had full control over his film career. While he had dreams of being taken seriously as an actor and admired James Dean and Marlon Brando, his management continually forced him into silly movies that only required him to sing a few songs.
Elvis’s early films, which were made before his military service and which allowed him to act as well as sing, were his best. Today’s scene comes from one of those films, 1957’s Jailhouse Rock.
