“I’ll be the death of you,” is a phrase that I enjoyed using for a period of time in 2007 so it seems appropriate to make it today’s music video of the day.
Enjoy!
Category Archives: Music Review
Music Video Of The Day: Self Aware Bitch by Anna-Sofia Mörck (2020, dir by Lebni Avitia)
Is there really such a thing as dodgeball tryouts? Do schools actually have like competitive dodgeball teams? I don’t think my high school did but then again, I went to a school that valued art and theater above athletics.
(We didn’t even have our own football field but instead had to use another school’s field. That’s how little athletic mattered to us.)
Anyway, the school in this video has dodgeball tryouts ad they certainly do look grueling. It’s actually not much of a school and I can understand why Anna-Sofia Mörck is annoyed with everyone that she has to deal with. I would have been annoyed as well. In fact, despite the whole dodgeball angle, I think just about everyone should be able to relate to this video. Everyone felt like an outsider in high school. I mean, even the insiders thought they were outsiders.
Enjoy!
Music Video of the Day: Rat Race by Talia Stewart (2020, dir by Talia Stewart and Nigel Pelligree)
It takes a certain amount of courage to sing while a rat’s crawling on your shoulder and, in honor of that courage, here is today’s music video of the day!
Enjoy!
Music Video of the Day: Andromeda by Elodie (2020, dir by Attilio Cusani)
Today’s music video of the day comes to us from one of my favorite countries, Italy!
Goditi i video e la musica che ami!
Music Video of the Day: Blue by Hannah Grace (2020, dir by Johnny Marchetta)
The thing I like about this video is that it features a disco ball.
Seriously, every room should come with a disco ball. During my first semester away at college, I had a disco ball hanging in my dorm room. (Unfortunately, my roommate took it with her when the semester ended.) And I’ve currently got a disco ball in my bedroom that I occasionally hang from the ceiling. It just really livens up the house and, even more importantly, it keeps the spirit of disco alive. Plus, you don’t have to worry about a disco ball exploding or transforming into a carnivorous goo, like you do with a lava lamp.
Anyway, this is a simple video but I like it. It’s got a nice and calming atmosphere to it.
Enjoy!
Music Video of the Day: Off My Mind by Hazel English (2020, dir by ????)
Now seems like as good a time as any to take a trip back to the 60s or the 70s and here to help us do just that is today’s music video of the day!
Myself, I always love these retro videos. My personal theory is that it’s because I was born a few decades too late. I love to dance and I love to have a good time and I used to love a few other things that were popular back in the 70s but I won’t go too much into too much of that here. It’s hard for me not to feel that I should have been born earlier so that I could have hit the discos or the go-go clubs or whatever else there was to hit back then. Hell, I probably would have even tried the whole punk thing. Sure, why not?
For the record, if I had been born like in the 50s or the 40s (or even the 30s, who knows), I probably would have voted for Kennedy in 1960 because he was Catholic and then I would have had to vote for LBJ in ’64 because he was a Texan. And I probably would have voted for Nixon twice and Ford once because why not? After the election of 1976, I probably would have said, “Forget voting, let’s dance!”
(Of course, if I had been born back then, I’d be like really old and bitter today so I guess I should just be happy that I was born when I was.)
Anyway, I like this video and I like this song. Good work all around!
Enjoy!
Music Video of the Day: Physical by Dua Lipa (2020, dir by ????)
So this video starts out with a good beat and two people getting close and really, that’s what we need in the world. There’s so many angry and bitter and angst-filled people out there that sometimes, we need a video to remind us that love is the best thing that there is and that there’s nothing wrong with getting close to one another and that….
OH MY GOD, DID SHE JUST RIP OUT HIS HEART!?
Well, maybe. She definitely removed something from his chest but he doesn’t look like he minds. I kind of think of this video gives us an opportunity to see what Grease would have been like it had been directed by David Cronenberg.
Enjoy!
Music Video Of The Day: Anarchy in the U.K. by The Sex Pistols (1976, directed by Julien Temple)
Today is John Lydon’s 64th birthday so today’s music video of the day features him at his best.
For the record, John Lydon (or Johnny Rotten, as he was known when he was the Sex Pistols’s lead singer) is not an anarchist. The famous lyrics that start off Anarchy in the U.K, came about because “I am an anarchiste” was the best rhyme that Lydon could come up with for “I am an Antichrist.” Lydon has described anarchism as being “mind games for the middle class.” Lydon’s right, of course.
Remarkable, John Lydon has gone from being regarded as a symbol of everything that was wrong with British youth (a representation of what the Daily Mail famously called “The Filth and the Fury” after drummer Paul Cook called Simon Grundy a “fucking rotter” on national television) to being a national treasure. Songs that once scandalized Britain are now unofficial anthems and, remarkably, Lydon’s gone from hated to beloved without changing a thing about his outlook or even his attitude. Listening to an interview with Lydon from the Sex Pistols-era is not that much different from listening to an interview that Lydon may have given last month. He may now be doing butter commercials and appearing on I’m A Celebrity! Get Me Out Of Here! but he remains that same Johnny Rotten who once scared the Hell out of anyone with a pension.
Enjoy!
Music Video of the Day: Boneless by Steve Aoki, Chris Lake & Tujamo (2013, dir by Peter Falloon)
Watch this video and learn from it!
When these two fashionably-clad gangs had a disagreement in the 1980s, they didn’t settle things with violence. Well, okay — they probably did sometimes. In fact, things get a little bit heated in this video and I’m sure some people would argue that the only reason things didn’t get bad (I mean like, West Side Story bad) is because everyone knew that they were being filmed for prosperity.
Anyway, instead of having a rumble (which may sound silly but is still a lot of fun to say), they had a skate-off! And then they all jumped up into the air! Yay! Everyone’s a winner even though we know that can’t be true because, just by definition, no one can win unless someone else loses. That’s just the way it goes.
Anyway, this is a fun little video and all the gang members look crazy hot with their skateboards and their headbands and their whole neon attitude. This video was shot in Venice Beach and the director was Peter Falloon, who apparently directed a lot of skating videos back in the 80s. My favorite thing about this video is that it really does look like something that was taken off of a crappy VHS tape. You can even tell when the tape’s owner rewound certain scenes and then watched them over and over again.
Anyway, what more can I say about this one? It’s fun and really, for me, that’ the most important thing about any music video. Did I enjoy watching it? Did I actually force myself to concentrate on only doing one thing for three minute so that I could enjoy the video? In this case, the answer is yes.
So, yay!
Enjoy!
Music Video of the Day: Casino Queen by Jackie Lynn (2020, dir by Haley Fohr and Krzys Piotrowski)
One minute, you’re running through the desert.
The next minute, you’re winning everyone’s money.
Such is life, when you’re a Casino Queen.
Actually, I don’t know if that interpretation is correct or not. This seems to be a video that’s open to multiple interpretations. I guess a lot of how you react to it will depend on how you feel about casinos in general. I find casinos to be depressing places, where people inevitably gamble away their futures while the local Elvis impersonator begs someone to drop a quarter in his guitar case. Other people tend to see casinos as being a place where anyone can strike it big, if they just have the right combination of luck and skill. I’m not sure if this video depicts someone getting lucky or cheating. Maybe it’s a little of both.
Myself, I’ve never been much of a gambler. For instance, I would never be able to do well at poker because I would constantly be asking the person sitting next to me if I had a good hand or not. Blackjack is a lot more easier to play since all you have to do is just try not to go over 21. Actually, if I ever did go on a gambling spree, I’d probably just hit the slot machines. Or maybe the roulette wheel.
To be honest, whenever I hear the word “casino,” I think about Robert De Niro critiquing the blueberry muffins in the Martin Scorsese film of the same name. The Ace Rothstein Dancers were my favorite part of that movie and I think they would appreciate this song because you can dance to it.
This video has a 70s-version-of-the-future feel to it, which I like. If Logan’s Run had taken place in a casino, it probably would have looked a lot like Casino Queen.
Enjoy!
Through the Shattered Lens 