December 2011

WATCH IT: Lady Gaga "Marry The Night" (Lady Gaga, dir.)

This 16 minute meditation on Lady Gaga's artistic triumph after setbacks and despair — call it a bildungsroman, if you want to be fancy — plays a bit like The Wall in reverse: Gaga starts broken down and alienated, rising up from that low point to fulfill her dreams of stardom. Both The Wall (the movie, that is) and this video are grandiose — not to mention the shared eyebrow style — but Gaga actually wins in terms of brevity and humor.

2012 Grammy Music Vid Nominees... clip by clip

The "Best Short Form Music Video" category  at the Grammys have longed seemed like an aftethought — ranking somewhere above Polka, yet below the main categories — but this year's crop of picks is as appropriately diverse, or scattershot, as it should be. 

Grammy Best Short Form Music Video 2012 Nominees...For an individual track or single promotional clip. Award to the Artist and to the Video Director/Producer.

Adele "Rolling In The Deep"Sam Brown, video directorHannah Chandler, video producer [XL Recordings/Columbia Records]

The biggest hit of the year, for the biggest artist of the year. Also the most traditional of all the video nominees.

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