October 2013

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Mike Quinn "Hope It Goes Away (The Best Video on the Internet)" (Ben Berman, dir.)

If you've ever tooled around in Google Maps Street View, imagining being in all those fabulous places, then you may indeed find this to be the Best Music Video on the Internet. But, it's far more likely if you like the idea of being in all sorts of less than fabulous places. Or if you like the PoMo twist this takes about halfway through, dreaming of a viral reaction that spreads to all the major blogs — except videostatic.com, which must be an oversight — and then gets increasingly silly until the takedown notice comes through.

Is it the Best Video on the Internet? Well, it's at least the Most Internet Video on the Internet right now, which will probably be an awards category soon. 

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Rihanna "Pour It Up" (Robyn Rihanna Fenty, dir.)

While you might be tempted to view this as Rihanna showing the young'ns how Twerking is done — all respect to Ms. Miley, of course — keep in mind that photos from this shoot first crept out in May, way before the word was enshrined in the Oxford English Dictionary.

In fact there's a huge backstory here, teased in this little Twitter back and forth between director Vincent Haycock and Rihanna:

How's the video itself? Well, it's got pasties, strippers, twerking and a whole lot of content that's probably the unsafe side of NSFW. To summarize the wise man Chazz Michael Michaels, "It's provocative." 

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