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.
I went looking for an election day music video and this is what I found. This song first came out in 2008 but the video was released in 2012, a week before the election between Obama and Romney. I think the song is saying that you should vote and you should also convince your friend not to vote because they might vote for someone different from you and cancel out your vote. For instance, I voted last week just to make sure that I canceled out the vote of the one communist in the neighborhood.
There she is.
By the way, did you know that some people claim that St. Chad is the patron saint of disputed elections because of the grace and humility he showed in 669 when he was ordered to step down from his disputed role of Bishop of York? That’s not an official designation, of course but it is something to remember in case things get weird tonight.
St. Chad says, “Behave!”
Back to the video. The creepy mannequins in this video reside at The Royal de Luxe in Nantes, France. The Royal de Luxe is a French mechanical marionette street theatre company that is well-known for performances involving giant puppets. They’ve performed in France, Belgium, England, Germany, Iceland, Chile, Australia, Mexico, Canada, Switzerland, Netherlands and Ireland.
With Lisa on vacation this week, it falls to me to select today’s music video of the day. I picked the video for Avirl Lavigne’s Sk8er Boi because nostalgia is everything and I can still remember when this song was playing everywhere.
The song’s about a girl who has a crush on a skater but she still rejects him because all of her snobby friends don’t know that all skaters grow up to be rich rock stars who make appearances on TRL and get to hang out with Carson Daly. Meanwhile, the snobby girl becomes a single mother and I just realized that this song is really problematic.
In the video, Avril and her followers perform an impromptu concert in the middle of Los Angeles before Avril escapes in a helicopter. This was filmed at the intersection of 7th and S. Spring Street in Los Angeles so if you live near either of those streets, what were you doing in 2002?
I remember when The Sims first came out, every teenage Sim girl looked like Avril Lavigne. Later, with the Superstar expansion pack, your Sims could actually try to hang out with Avril.
If you threw a really rocking party, she might even show up and see where you had trapped Drew Carey.
You can tell by the credit at the top of the picture that I’m not the one who actually did that to Drew but I wish I had. That’s a clever way to keep your celebrity friends from ever going home.
But back to Sk8er Boi! Sk8er Boi was actually optioned for adaptation into a feature film but nothing ever came of it. I don’t know why because the whole story is right there in the lyrics. It could still be made because there will always be snobby girls and skater boys. The only thing that would have to change would be the part about the skater playing guitar on MTV because no one does that anymore.
The video was directed by Francis Lawrence, who directed all of the Hunger Games movies except for the first one. It was nominated for a MTV Music Video award but who cares about those?
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?
Through the Shattered Lens 