Benny Benassi zips along the Pacific Coast Highway, John Legend performs in a portraiture set-up, and beautiful women do what they do on the shores of Malibu, all in beautiful b&w.
This perfect homage to the 4x3 heyday TV performances had me from the opening Jackson 5 dance move. Things get a bit trippier, but the grainy VHS vibe and overall joyous vibe remains intact.
Slipknot's Shawn M. "Clown" Crahan directs a surreal and grotesque heavy metal circus that serves as a stand-in for America in this video for Motionless In White. [SG]
If you're alive and with somebody you love, then there's no excuse to not be as happy as Michael Franti and everyone else in this celebration of a video.
The camera glides like a ghost through a moment in time at a motel. There's a missing girl, a fugitive and a twist, but it's more about the technique of long tracking shots that makes this feels a bit like the sequentially interconnected multiversal masterpiece Slacker, but with everything happening nearly all at once.
Can Matthew Koma win over an indifferent talent show audience? Can a group of wannabe cool guys win over some equally indifferent pretty girls? Or do they all get overshadowed by a magicalpink gum bubble that's out of control?
"True North" surely shares some inspiration with the Replacements classic spinning vinyl video, but director Zach Merck focuses more on the listener here than the platter. A young punk puts on the new Bad Religion and loses himself to the music, finding inspiration and community. Which is surely the way it's always been and always will be for bands like this.
