Category Archives: Music Review

Music Video of the Day: Since U Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson (2005, dir. by Alex de Rackoff)

Posted on by Dazzling Erin

Nostalgia is a powerful drug and it’s the main reason why Since U Been Gone is today’s music video of the day.  Whe I hear this song, I’m immediately zapped back to 2005 and I remember how Lisa and I got on everyone’s nerves by singing it at the top of our lungs every day during the holiday break.

I also remember really liking this video when I first saw it but now I realize that it actually doesn’t go with the song’s message.  The song is about how much happier Kelly is after getting out of a toxic relationship but in the video, Kelly’s destroying her ex’s new girlfriend’s apartment and acting like she’s got a fatal attraction going on.  She should have at least trashed her ex’s place and left the new girlfriend out of it.  This is still a good video, though, because we all have someone in our part whose apartment we would like to trash.

Enjoy!

 

Music Video of the Day: Night by John Carpenter (2015, dir by Gavin Hignight and Ben Verhulst

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Okay, so it’s more cyberpunk than horror but ….

Listen, it’s John Carpenter.  As a month, October pretty much belongs to John Carpenter and there’s never a more appropriate time to share a music video for one of his songs.  Interestingly enough, Night is one of Carpenter’s rare compositions that is not also a part of a soundtrack.

It certainly sounds like it belongs in a movie though, right?

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Burn by Nine Inch Nails (1994, dir by Hank Corwin and Trent Reznor)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

I like Burn, even though it’s not exactly subtle song.  I mean, Trent Reznor has never exactly been the most low-key of songwriters but Burn is a bit heavy-handed by even his standards.  That said, it’s got a good beat and you can dance to it and it’s fun to music to play while you’re setting a fire or trying to freak out a boomer.

The video was apparently included on a special VHS tape of Natural Born Killers.  And now it’s on YouTube so watch it while you can because I have a feeling this video will probably get yanked down for copyright reasons in another month or so.  Stuff like that just makes me want to burn it all down.  The video pretty much follows the Natural Born Killers aesthetic.  It’s a type of style that’s good for music videos but a bit much for a 2 hour-plus film.  Natural Born Killers is one of those films that I always get bored with before it ends but the soundtrack’s pretty good.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Freedom by Alice Cooper (1987, directed by ????)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

Alice Cooper singing about freedom is exactly what we all need to hear today.

This song was the first and only single off of Alice Cooper’s seventeenth solo album, Raise Your Fist and Yell.  Despite celebrating freedom and being promoted by the music video above, the single failed to chart in the United States.  However, in the UK, it reached #50 in the charts.  Maybe across the pond, it was better appreciated that the video featured Rambo on guitar.  (That’s actually Kane Roberts on guitar.  Roberts co-wrote this song and is a legitimate rock and roll great.  The presence of Roberts makes it easier to forgive the fact that Kip Winger played bass on Freedom.)

This song came out at around the same time that the Senate was investigating rock music and there was a strong push for warning labels to be put on albums.  This song was Cooper’s response to the Tipper Gores of the world.  “Stop pretending you’ve never been bad,” the lyrics say before going on to take a stand for freedom of speech.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Whatever It Takes by Imagine Dragons (2017, dir by Matt Eastin and Aaron Hymes)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Whatever it takes

I know I can make it through….

Oh wait a minute, this isn’t the Degrassi theme song.  Sad to say but there has never been an official music video released for the Degrassi theme song.  If there had been, I would definitely be sharing it today for Canadian Thanksgiving.

Still, this Imagine Dragons song isn’t bad and the video features a lot of fire and destruction, which fits in with our horror theme this month.  So, I’ll take it.

Enjoy!