June 2011

WATCH IT: Britney Spears "I Wanna Go" (Chris Marrs Piliero, dir.)

Starting with a press conference that's only slightly less absurd that Anthony "Are you more than seven inches!?" Weiner's resignation speech, this comical video has Britney Spears turning the tables on all the gawkers, paparazzi and other rubberneckers. Britney also gladly takes some potshots here — ie: there will be no "Cross Harder" sequel to her 2002 flick Crossroads — while gladly going along on a ride gets more bizarro (and fun)  as it progresses.   --> watch "I Wanna Go"

WATCH IT: Kanye West "Monster" (Jake Nava, dir.)

Kanye says: Don't call it misogynistic, call it an art piece. Percolating online in an unfinished form for a while now, Kanye West's "Monster" is now officially out, with the rapper and his A-List collaborators looming and/or lusting over dead sexy bodies. Maybe it's to show that most rap video chicks are presented as nothing more than eye-candy, mere props, so why not just make them lifeless. Or maybe it's meant to be the sexiest coolest horror-core video of all time. It's probably not misogynistic — although a Woman's Studies professor could sure prove me wrong, especially with a close reading of the Nicki Minaj segment — but it's undeniably disturbing.

WATCH IT: Yuck "Shook Down" (Michael/Forrest, dir.) NSFW

Naked people in a Yuck video? Yes, the streak continues. This time it's a collage of body parts all stiched together, making for mismatched mammaries, complementary cocks, and other bits that aren't nearly as alliterative. And if you're offended — and you shouldn't be, unless you watch it in public or your workplace, or anywhere else where it would be inappropriate — you should at least be glad that the knife they keep displaying never gets used. --> watch "Shook Down" (NSFW)

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WATCH IT: Lady Gaga "The Edge Of Glory" (Haus Of Gaga, dir.)

If "The Edge Of Glory" sounds like an anthem from an '80s flick — perhaps "Out On The Edge" from The Heavenly Kid? — the video only amplifies it with a stoop set-up starring the late, great E-Street Big Man Clarence Clemons that's straight outta "Waiting On A Friend" and a non-stop solo dance performance by Gaga on an impeccably clean NYC backlot set.  Depending on how deep you wish to wade, it's a video of  Gaga dancing in place for 5:28, or it's a punkish no wave rejection of the complexity that previously defined her. I personally like to think it's Gaga imagining what kind of video Wendy O.

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