RE: Taylor Swift sort of gets naked in new music video
FantasticMR > 03/11/2017, 14:00
I love a good music video although I should never go to places to drink that have music videos playing. I get complete sucked in by them and don't pay attention to anything else. I always wanted to direct music videos when I was younger but alas ended up directing boobies so no real regrets there. I did an animated music video with a mate once too and that was plenty of fun.
I feel a top 5 coming on.
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My First Abductee by Kittent Ombola. I had to didn't I. I mean if you've made a music video (regardless of how crude it might be) you've still got to feature it in your top 5.
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Sorry by Justin Beiber.
I'll admit it, I liked this song, in fact he had a few bangers around that point, clearly buying up the best pop production teams he could find to work with. BUT he's not in this so I don't have to look at his face, just the hypnotic moves from Kiwi dance troupe PURPOSE: The Movement.
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Smack My Bitch Up by The Prodigy
Loads of people loved this video at the time because it flipped your expectations on their arse when in the end it's revealed that the actions you've been watching which are inherently "laddish" and violent turn out to be done by a woman. I like it because I was in my early teens when it came out and there were tits in it. Also back in the days of Babecast when we used to get a girl doing a pole dance, this was the track of choice and it would get the studio lit.
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How's it Gonna Be by Third Eye Blind
Third Eye Blind are my favourite band and with my years passing by and the new music scene being good but not completely for me it's not likely that I will ever find someone to replace them. This video embodies the coolness of lead singer Stephen Jenkins as he plays into the camera and it features the original line up. Love the new Third Eye Blind but the Kevin Cadagon days will always be dear to me.
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Everlong by The Foo Fighters
I might be corrected but this is was the 2nd single released off of the Foo's 2nd album 'The Colour and the Shape'. Although I was into Nirvana I had no idea that Dave Grohl was now fronting the band or in even who they were. All I had was a sound bite from the advert of 10 seconds that made me fall in love with the song.
I wasn't able to earn my own money back then but there was a school trip to Paris and I knew that if I did not spend while out there then I could buy the album on my way back and that's exactly what I did. I later recorded the video off of a mates TV when I saw it coming on. The video itself is just a bit weird but full of awesome visuals and at the time I didn't know I was watching the work of Michel Gondry who many years later went on to direct my favourite movie, 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'. It also parodies and harks back to 'The Evil Dead' movies which makes it a lot of fun. This song and video captured the era for me, one of new beginnings, new music that I had been searching for but didn't know it's sound and in turn new music videos which were the art that I enjoyed.