Even if "Embrace your past, but live for now" feels like a generic tagline some Mad Man has been pitching for years until Pepsi decided to drink the Kool-Aid (I mean, soda), it makes for an excellent Beyonce commercial that has her literally confronting her music past. All the old Bey' looks are nailed perfectly, which is no surprise, since spot director Jake Nava also directed "Single Ladies," "Crazy In Love" and several other videos for the pop music megastar.
Last week, the uber talented Vancouver band Wintermitts unveiled their stunning narrative music video for 'Our Love' from the mind of the independant Director Artino Ahmadi of Fresh Ninja Films. This veritable tour-de-force was produced on a shoe-string budget and with a mass of volunteers, the results compliment the unmatched beauty of 'Our Love'. The Wintermitts should be heard by all!
The new video "Forever Drug" from Tom Shaner's debut full length "ghost songs, waltzes and rock & roll" features Shaner, actress Lauren Francesca and Todd Weeks. We see a couple showing different faces and styles, masks, and moods to each other. Sometimes connecting and having fun, or sometimes not appreciating that they may be a bad romantic match. Hard to know sometimes where the source of conflict begins. One man tries to dance it away, but enlightenment seems fleeting as he walks into walls.
If director Patrick Daughters' K-pow extravaganza for "Entertainment" was too over-the-top, you might prefer this lo-fi homemade clip that Phoenix made of themselves casually performing in front of Versailles. Well, more precisely, it's just a greenscreened depiction of Versailles. (And I mean the one in France, not the unbuilt abominination in Florida)
