Reality bends, bows and swirls as Cee-Lo Green and Lauriana Mae approach each other, but it's not enough to close the literal chasm that separates them.
Focus Creeps go for a gritty '80s vibe, complete with video artifacts, statics and ghosting as Willy Moon and his girl make do on the other side of L.A.
Stephen Pitalo of The Golden Age Of Music Video has been covering some of the great '80s videos for Videostatic. This week's subject is a flim noir video by Jim Lenahan for Tom Petty.
Jim Lenahan has known Tom Petty since the early seventies in Florida, when the two were young musicians; Lenahan even did a stint as singer in Petty's pre-Heartbreakers band Mudcrutch.
The video of the month is "Harlem Shake." All of them. Even if you think most of them are awful. And timing is partially the reason why.
The most important news to hit the music video world in years: YouTube views now count when calculating the Billboard Hot 100 chart, which is standard barometer of what America listens to, and based predominantly on the viral YouTube success, "Harlem Shake" debuted as the #1 song.
Doesn't take too much digging to find old movies that elevate smoking to a glamorous perch that most people now view as misguded, at best. Perhaps we'll look the same way on tanning, but damned if this video doesn't make sun worship look appealing.
