Well, do you?
Anyway, there are two things that I particularly like about this video. One of them is the long tracking shot that follows Tove Lo as she walks back to her dressing room. It reminded me a bit of the opening to Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil. I also liked the long close-up of Tove Lo sitting in her dressing room. It takes courage on the part of both the director and the performer to hold a shot for that long.
Enjoy!
Awwwwww! Gwen and Blake are so cute together.
There’s a lot of reasons why this video works but really, it all comes down to charisma and chemistry. Gwen and Blake look like they should be celebrating Christmas together and, when you watch, you want to celebrate with them. This video was directed by Sophie Muller, who has directed over 230 videos since the late 80s!
Enjoy and Merry Christmas!
If Jean Rollin had ever directed a Christmas special, it would probably look a bit like this video for GALYA’s Winter Love.
Amusez-vous bien!
Darlene Love’s Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) is one of my favorite Christmas song but, unfortunately, there’s not an official music video for Love’s version.
However, there is a music video for Love’s 1992 Christmas song, All Alone on Christmas. As you can tell from watching the video, this song was actually a part of the Home Alone 2 soundtrack. The video is full of footage from the movie but it does not include the scenes with Donald Trump. However, it does feature Macaulay Culkin “producing” the song. I understand that the grown-up Culkin now performs song about pizza which …. well, I mean, I like pizza so hopefully it’s not as stupid as it sounds.
In the video, Darlene Love is backed up by members of the E Street Band, who all look happy to be freed (if only momentarily) from the tyranny of Bruce Springsteen.
Enjoy!
Let’s start this holiday weekend off with another music video from Lindsey Stirling!
In Celtic Carol, Lindsey is an elf who has been locked into Santa’s workshop. Apparently, Santa is a really demanding boss, which I always kind of suspected. I mean, if you’ve ever seen Santa Claus Conquers The Martians, you now what I’m talking about.
Anyway, Elf Lindsey manages to get in the Christmas spirit despite having to work.
Enjoy!
I’ve got snow on the mind.
To anyone who knows me, that should not come as a surprise. In fact, I put my friends and family through this every year. Once December rolls around, I start obsessively talking about how much I hope that it will snow. It always starts out as a cute but, around the 15th, I always start to curse the lack of snow in the forecast. By the time the 24th hits, I’m usually stamping my foot and making demands.
(Of course, I live in Texas so it’s rare that my snow wish is ever fulfilled. If it does snow here, it’ll probably be in late January or maybe Febuary. A few years ago, it did actually snow in Texas on Christmas Day but, even so, it was really more of a light dusting than a real blizzard.)
This year …. well, it’s not even supposed to get down to freeing on Christmas Day. That’s a shame because we are supposed to get hit by some rainstorms. So, we’ll get flooded but we wont get any ice or snow. Oh well. As long as the sun isn’t shining, I guess I’ll be happy.
Anyway, you may be wondering what all of this has to do with today’s music video of the day and the answer is not much. The song is called Snow but it’s not actually about snow. Instead, it uses snow as a metaphor for an intense relationship. The video itself doesn’t feature a blizzard, either. Still, I’ve got snow on the mind and this song and video may be as close as I’m going to get before this year ends.
Don’t get me wrong. Even if it’s not about real snow, I still like the video and the song because Adi Ulmansky is one of my favorite artists. (Again, I have to thank my BFF Evelyn for introducing me to her music.) This video was directed Shir Rosenthal, who is also credited with directing the video for Adi’s Dreamin‘.
Enjoy!
(And keep your hopes up for snow in Texas!)
Both this song and this video appeals to my sentimental side. I’m thinking about a lot of people this month. In fact, I sometimes feel as if I’ve got a thought bubble floating over my head and anyone could look inside of it and see exactly what I’m thinking about.
I guess that’s why I like this video. Everyone’s always thinking of someone.
This video was directed by Ace Norton, who has basically directed videos for everyone.
Enjoy!
“There’s two types of persons in the world. The ones that entertain and the ones that observe.”
Ten years ago, this song helped me get through the most difficult December of my life and, for that reason, it is today’s music video of the day.
To be honest, despite the fact that this is one of my favorite Britney songs, I nearly didn’t pick Circus for music video of the day because the song was co-written and produced by the infamous Dr. Luke. But you know what? The song may have been written by him but Britney makes it her own and this video isn’t about him. Instead, it’s about the circus that is everyone’s life. When Britney emerges in control, it’s a reminder that we all have it in us to put on the top hat and take control of the circus. It’s a slightly silly video but that’s what makes it so great. It’s a fun video and Britney appears to be happy, which was a huge relief back in 2008.
This video was directed by Francis Lawrence, who is today best known for directing all of the Hunger Games film, with the exception of the first one. He also directed Red Sparrow but we’ll forgive him for that. (Speaking of circuses, he also directed Water For Elephants.)
Enjoy!
For today’s music video of the day, we have Public Service Broadcasting’s Night Mail.
Both the song and the video were inspired by a 1936 British documentary called Night Mail. The documentary (clips of which are seen in the video) was a 21-minute film about a night in the lives of the London to Glasgow nightly postal train and the people who staffed it.
All in all, it’s a nicely atmospheric video from one of my favorite groups.
Enjoy!
For today’s music video of the day, I’m taking a little break from all the holiday music to share the video for Tove Lo’s Cycles. The song is about being trapped in a never-ending relationship loop, a theme that is perfectly captured in this video by one long take of Tove Lo performing while the world spins around her.
Enjoy!
Through the Shattered Lens 