Therapy? Mediation? Hell no. If you want to work out serious issues, there's no better place than an '80s trash TV talk show. SNL's Vanessa Bayer puts on her biggest smile as host, letting the girls of Haim and special guest A$AP Ferg work out isses that range from (cotton) ball phobia to mime festishism.
It's likely impossible for Pharrell Williams and Miley Cyrus to make a video that's not sexy on some level — we're talking about the people responsible for "Blurred Lines" and "We Can't Stop," respectively — but "Come Get It Bae" is more like a high-energy version of John Legend's "You And I" video, celebrating all the many "flavors" of women with a perfect edit and a even a little handheld Bolex
Off goes the hair, on goes the bra and so Spider-Man actor Andrew Garfield's gender-swap journey begins...
A honky tonk crowd greets him with uneasy stares that, of course, leads to outight brutality. But, there's an escape hatch of music, even if it's just in his mind... Soaring choreography transports him from the on-the-floor pummeling to a place where his tormentors are nothing more that a dance troupe ushering him to heaven, which in this case is a catharctic climax on-stage with Arcade Fire.
Hopefully he's also up there rocking with Hedwig...
Fame is usually a solitary pursuit — unless you count the people you chew up to get where you want to go — so Fight Club is probably an apt metaphor. That's not what this is, because the the dancers of WIFE don't come together to clash, but to become a seamless, rhyhmic one. Or something. Either way it's lovely.
"Coming Of Age" plays like a soundtrack video to a long lost '80s movie, where we see that everybody needs to stand up and fight, be it a boxer in the ring or the nerdy school mascot.
The song title is a bit of a spoiler, but this high plains drama takes a supernatural witchy turn midway through with an ending that's certainly happier than what we got in "Sacrilege."
She's a pendulum, heartbroken and numb, swaying from one man to another in yet another Daniels video that seems to break all the rules of time and space.
