Just when you think this video can be easily summed up as "Darwin Deez photobombs a series of cheesy commercial shots," director Keith Schofield takes it to someplace much less simple. The basic structure doesn't change, but it turns out that lonely Darwin is alternately exploding in rage and mourning each phase of love that he'll miss out on as a single dude. Not to give away any spoilers in this fantastically lunatic clip, but he doesn't seem to get lucky in the end, although he does get his aggression out. And that manatee does look pretty cute.
All it takes is some cool water and rock 'n' roll to feel young and beautiful and ready to get wasted again in this live action romp filled with animated flourishes.
Get in the ring with Tyler, The Creator aka director Wolf Haley as he mugs and wrestles his way through a cast of characters in a video that's more akin to the OFWGKTA skit show Loiter Squad than the intensity of his breakthrough "Yonkers" clip.
This video for Swedish newcomer Ellinor Olovsdotter aka Elliphant plays like a homemade artifact from the Golden Age Of Music VideoTM, a VHS found in a musty basement that's much more compelling that it should be. And yes, that's a compliment.
Stephen Pitalo of The Golden Age Of Music Video has been covering some of the great '80s videos for Videostatic. This week, he dives into something that was certainly successful at the time, but in hindsight was maybe not so great.
If you're gonna have subtitles in a music video you might as well have fun with them. And directing team Brewer certainly does that but only after sucking you into a dysfunctional and surreal, yet strangely real love/hate relationship between Michael Angelakos and actress Sophia Bush.
