June 2010

WATCH IT: Foals "Miami" (Dave Ma, dir.)

Welcome to Miami, bitch, where we encounter a battle of muscles vs models (juice heads vs. juice fasters) in this strangely lurid video for UK band Foals. The melee eventually reaches a happy stalemate, but only because of some rap gangbangers who bring peace and beats to the scene. --> watch "Miami"

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WATCH IT: Lil Wayne f/ Nicki Minaj "Knockout" (Jeff Panzer, dir.)

Anyone ready for pop-rock Lil Wayne? The rapper and cohort Nicki Minaj play around mainly in a locker room and a boxing ring as they avoid a knockout battle of the sexes by agreeing that the old adage about "once you go black" is indeed correct. --> watch "Knockout"

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WATCH IT: Kylie Minogue "All The Lovers" (Joseph Kahn, dir.)

The music starts and everything stops. Coffee cups fall to the group. So does the clothing. Men and women strip down and embrace out one another in the middle of a normal city day, all in celebration of pop icon Kylie Minogue and this pop-disco hit. More and more people converge, making for a pile of flesh that eventually grows into a tower of pansexual love to rise Kylie up to the heavens. Director Joseph Kahn's cinematography is sensuously perfect, accentuating various white elements — doves, horses — perhaps to reinforce the tidy whiteys that everyone keeps on. Yes, this video has no nudity. After all, a pop music video needs to make the airwaves, the popular parts of the web and the media; It can't just be a Spencer Tunick art piece.

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