Music Video of the Day: Beautiful Dangerous by Slash, featuring Fergie (2010, directed by Rich Lee)


Since today is the birthday of guitar god Slash, today’s music video of the day is for the third single to be release from Slash’s self-titled debut solo album.  Slash told The Sun that this song began as a piece of music that he wrote as “a score for a scene in a strip club” and he decided to have Fergie provide vocals after hearing her cover Heart’s Barracuda.

The video features Fergie as an obsessed fan of Slash’s who apparently ends up killing him.  Slash said that the idea for the video came from Fergie herself.  The video was directed by Rich Lee, who has also done several videos for The Black-Eyed Peas, Eminem, Lana del Rey, and others.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: It’s On Again by Alicia Keys, featuring Kendrick Lamar, Pharrell Williams, Hans Zimmer (2014, directed by Rich Lee)


The Amazing Spider-Man 2.  It’s not my favorite Spider-Man movie, though that’s not the fault of Andrew Garfield or Emma Stone.  As a movie, it was clearly trying too hard to match the MCU without actually being a part of the MCU.  (Later, we found out that both the Garfield and the Maguire Spider-Men were a part of the Multiverse but, when they were first released, both sets of Spider-Man films were trapped in limbo.)  The script turned Electro into just another boring villain and Gwen Stacy was no Mary Jane Watson.

I can’t deny, though, that the soundtrack was awesome.  Alice Keys and Kendrick Lamar performed It’s On Again for the film and the music video, along with being a throwback to the type of music videos that used to regularly be made to promote the movies, also hints at what we were all hoping The Amazing Spider-Man 2 would actually be.

The video was directed by Rich Lee, who has also done videos for Eminem, Lana Del Rey, Billie Eilish, Maroon 5, The Black Eyed Peas, Norah Jones, Slash Michael Bublé, The Pussycat Dolls, and The All-American Rejects.

Enjoy!