I used to really like Katy Petty and then I ended up getting annoyed with her because Firework was so extremely overplayed and the whole “feud” with Taylor Swift just made me roll my eyes at both of them. However, I’ve recently come back to liking Katy Perry and appreciating her style of music. While everyone else was getting self-important and embracing the gloom, Katy was discovering how to live again, as you can hear with this song and see in this video. Ultimately, this song is right. It’s not the end of the world and some people out there kind of need to accept that.
One good thing about being rich is that whenever you’re coming out of a relationship or you’ve been stricken by ennui or if you’re just not sure about the meaning of life, you can jump off an isolated cliff into the ocean and you can somehow survive and, to quote the title of today’s music video of the day, “live forever.”
Of course, it helps if you look like Liam Payne. I mean, those abs can do anything.
Welcome to the world of Motorcross, which is apparently the most fun you can have when you combine motorcycles and drunk people. (Of course, the majority of the drunk people are in the stands, watching. Or, at least, that’s the way things tend to be down here in Texas, where people are responsible drivers but irresponsible observes. Unless, of course, the driver has presidential ambitions and is the son of an extremely wealthy local politician. Then, he can pretty much do whatever the Hell he wants behind the wheel of a car….)
Anyway, I like this video because not only does it capture the blue collar swagger of a local sporting event but it also ends with a hint that everyone’s dead. At least, that’s what I assume the final image means. Did they die during the race or before? It’s totally possible that they could in Purgatory and maybe we’re just watching them pass the time while they wait for a final judgment.
I appreciate the dusty atmosphere of this video. I like the suggestion of a melodrama that we can observe but perhaps not quite understand. It’s a deceptively simple video. What looks like a simple race might actually be a journey to something else. It’s up to the viewer to decide just where exactly that journey is going.
Through the Shattered Lens 