June 2014

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Joywave "Tongues" (Daniels, Zak Stoltz, dir.)

You'll be forgiven if at first you assume this is an homage to old horror flicks. Or if you then think it's an homage to some old acid-soaked hippie/freak film. Or, if you go back to your original horror theory. Or, if you dispense with all those guesses, relax, and just let the creative masters Daniels take you into what might instead be an NSFW parable, depicting an epic battle between the clothed and unclothed.

PS: Most of the nudity here is pixelated, so make your own NSFW decision.

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Charli XCX "Boom Clap" (Sing J. Lee, dir.)

The movie clip job is one of those music video tropes that I thought would never survive the Internet age — especially since the unbundled album has made the compilation soundtrack somewhat irrelevant. Yet, here it is.

So, while there's a whole lotta The Fault In Our Stars footage scattered throughout "Boom Clap," at least the Charli XCX footage was shot in a location (Amsterdam) related to the movie footage, and it has CXCX, who rode shotgun on the supernovas "Fancy" and "I Love It" and is now more than ready for a hit in her own name.

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