October 2012

Director Chris Marrs Piliero on The Wanted "I Found You"

Chris Marrs Piliero, director: "My initial impulse was to go in a direction that would stand apart from their previous videos and all other boy band videos as a whole. I wanted to put the boys in a narrative where they were genuinely badass throughout. I pitched them as being an Ocean's 11 type gang of dudes that are the cool anti-heros of our story. They asked me to embrace that and have them not really be good guys at all. I was more than happy to oblige." --> watch "I Found You"

WATCH IT: M. Ward "Me & My Shadow" (Scott Jacobson, dir.)

The loneliness of the teen pop sensation with M. Ward providing the soundtrack, Bobs Burgers writer Scott Jacobson directing, Conan O'Brien in a cameo as a disiniterested talk show host and Amy Sedaris as a maniacal momager. --> watch "Me And My Shadow"

M. Ward "Me And My Shadow" (Merge)Scott Jacobson, director | Charles Son, Joe Foley, DP | Joe Foley, editor 

WATCH IT: El-P "Stay Down" (Timothy Saccenti, dir.)

Here's the delicate line of hip-hop: The core audience lives for verses full of dexterous, sharp worldplay, but the masses just want to hear the hook. El-P faces them head-on, playing for a female audience that can't wait to force him and his drumming squirrel (yes) off-stage so Nick Diamond aka TV On The Radio's Jaleel Bunton as an old-fashioned shiny suit pop star can steal the spotlight. Things get violent (poor squirrel), but nowhere near as gnarly as when Peter Rosenberg said he didn't believe in Starships.  --> watch "Stay Down"

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