Bad Music Triple
Yep, I’m sharing a trio of music videos featuring bad music. Now, why would I do that? It’s possible that I hate you. Very possible. It’s possible that I fell over and hit my head. Less possible as I’m quite careful. It’s possible that I like this music even though – to me – it’s bad. Highly unlikely. But, as it turns out, true. These are songs that I shouldn’t like… but I do. Faith Evans – Mesmerized I loathe R’n’B music. Loathe it. And they’ve only gone and spelt ‘mesmerised’ in its American form. The cheek of it. Cracking song though. Girls Aloud – Love Machine I do not like Girls Aloud. I don’t fancy any of them. I would never buy any of their tracks. But I can sing along to this so long as nobody can see me. Heart – These Dreams Who likes power ballads? Not me, that’s for damn sure. But my fist will clench and my hair will become magically back-combed (in my mind) when this song enters my head...
Foreign Music Triple
You know what you want? You want some music videos sung in a foreign language; that’s what you want. Unless you’re not a native English-speaker. But, let’s assume that you are a native English-speaking individual… or hive mind (let’s not discriminate against my key hive mind demographic); you want some lilting, foreign tongue and tunes. You really do. Juana Molina – Quien If you only watch one of these videos then make it this one; stunning studio performance. Habibi – Aman Da Bey There are a couple of really, really, really nice things in this video. The range of outfits and the video transitions, of course. What did you think I meant? Karm – Tinka Tinka Zara Zara A beautiful song sung beautifully, and quite possibly inspired by Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Equally possibly...
College Music Triple
Three videos that have one thing in common is what this post is all about and that thing in common is: college. Specifically, music that I remember being popular or unpopular but played anyway while I was a college. If you went to college at the same time as me then maybe these can count as college music for you too, but it’s fairly likely that that’s not true at all. In that case feel free to come up with your own descriptive terms for this trio of musical delights all by yourself. Echo & The Bunnymen – Seven Seas Sugarcubes – Regina D Mob – Put Your Hands...
European Music Video Triple
I should really try to update this site more often other than simply putting up photos nobody cares about. I can’t help it. I like my camera. Also: Google+ is surprisingly engaging. For me. My time: it is being sapped. Anyhoo… here, have some music videos as a cheap way of keeping the site “fresh” and “yeah” and “Hannah Montana”. I have no idea what I’m talking about any longer. Duel – Propaganda Les Rita Mitsouko – Le Petit Train (Fat Freddy Remix) Whale – Hobo Humpin’ Slobo...
Classic Hip Hop Triple
Time for another trio of music videos. No need for a big write up here; it’s – quite simply – some true classics of hip hop. In my mind. Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock – It Takes Two Young MC – Know How (Stanton Warriors Remix) I’d never heard this mix before but it is flipping (yeah, that’s right, I said “flipping”) sweet 3rd Bass – Pop Goes The...
Hollywood Goes Japanese
The fact that some of Hollywood’s biggest and – occasionally – best actors and actresses appear in adverts around the world is something that most people familiar with the movie industry are all too aware of. Arnold Schwarzenegger famously advertised a pro-drugs campaign in Mozambique with the tagline “I’ll be crack”; Drew Barrymore was the face of Mexico’s most prestigious beauty treatment company Mayanbelline (“maybe she’s born with it!”) during the 1990s; the list goes on and on. For decades Japan has been the second largest user and abuser of Hollywood stars (after Qatar) and its fascination with such ‘A’-list celebrities as Matt Damon and Clint Howard has helped these actors through the lean years of low paydays as a direct result of rampant piracy. But it’s probably less well-known that in addition to television and newspaper ads many western stars also regularly appear in Japanese movies, albeit with dubbed voices. On my most recent trip abroad I managed to pick up copies of three such films featuring some all-too-familiar faces. Jodie Foster has made a nice living playing the popular superhero character of Happy Pink Weapon Girl since 1993 in a series of adventures about a girl who loves pink so much she ends up falling in love with it and becoming fused with pink power. If that doesn’t make sense to you then remember: this is a Japanese film we’re talking about. David Lynch doesn’t even watch Japanese films because they give him headaches. Happy Pink Weapon Girl fights all the non-pink things that are wrong in the world and this typically involves men in blue suits, flying gorillas, and her arch-nemesis Captain Sausage. The latest film in the franchise – Happy Pink Weapon Girl VI: Electric Speed Fight – takes place entirely on Captain Sausage’s supersonic maglev train that travels without rail tracks across all the islands of Japan shooting babies at single women. Subtlety has not made it into Japanese cinema yet. A newcomer to Japanese cinema is actress Jessica Simpson who has so far only appeared in one movie but it just so happened to be the largest grossing movie in Asia in 2010. The movie in question is Jessica Simpson Is Eaten By Monsters and consists entirely of thirty monsters taking it in turns to catch, eat, and then regurgitate Jessica Simpson for the next monster that comes along. The simple concept and repetitive yet enjoyable storyline wowed and thrilled eastern cinemagoers to such an extent that there were riots in Osaka when the actress scheduled a personal appearance at the main cineplex there but owing to a mix-up with airline bookings flew...
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