I MISS MY MTV

FUN – WE ARE YOUNG

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It took a while, but I finally caved. I don’t want to like a band that calls themselves Fun because fuck you for naming your band after the coolest thing you can have. But goddamit…they fucking lived up to it. This song is pure fun and the video is even better. The day that the slow-motion-smashing-things bit looses its appeal to me is the day that I am officially dead inside. And this is the kind of video that, as a band, these dudes are totally stoked on. They look cool, they barely react to the gigantic fight with all of the explosions going on within mere inches of them and they’re all wearing tuxedoes. I don’t know who it is that thought this video was a good idea, but bravo whoever you are. You did a great job. – JRN

THE SHINS- RIFLE’S SPIRAL

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MATT AND KIM – YEA YEAH

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If you like upbeat synthpop and you haven’t heard of Matt and Kim I have two words for you: FOR SHAME.  If you have and you haven’t watched this video yet take the opportunity now.  It’s clever and fun and goes along great with Matt and Kim’s positively buoyant song “Yea Yeah.”  It’s one of the most innovative concepts for a music video you’ll ever see AND it has a surprise twist at the end.  Also, for extra entertainment you can read the comments calling the video out for being “fake.”  Oh, that wasn’t an actual live recording of them playing while people threw shit at them? OMFG -SB

THE WANTED – GLAD YOU CAME

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I’m beginning to really enjoy this video despite the fact it’s from a Eurotrash boy band. First, the song is great because its allll chorus; like it’s not enough to repeat the refrain a billion times the melody plays constantly under the verse even, thereby making it impossible not to hum along and throughout the day.  Secondly did you notice the super awkward kid in the band? He’s hardly ever onscreen but he makes quite an impression with his slightly panicked smile and sweet junior high slow-dance moves. It’s like Jesse Eisenberg joined a boy band and it’s hilarious. Lastly- and this is 90% of the brilliance- who doesn’t love a vaguely dirty song title? They just gave us all a reason to say “I’m glad you came” in casual conversation all summer long and I for one plan to take full advantage. – AS

MNDR – #1 IN HEAVEN

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I don’t purport to understand what this song is about, but it has the whole crappy-80s-effects thing going for it.  It also had a beat that made me shake my rump and not hate myself for it. Actually I spent the whole video sounding out the various ways that MNDR could be pronounced…and none of them sounding like a proper band name.  Does that mean I was bored? Probably.  But I still enjoyed it enough to post it on here and listen to it a few times.  80′s inspired dance music video FTW I guess. -LF

CHRIS BROWN – SWEET LOVE

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Hey look some piece of shit made a music video.  Please, Chris Brown, tell me all about sweet love.  If at all possible wear a handkerchief while you do it.  I don’t care that you’re a piece of shit, Chris Brown.  There’s tons of guys in Alabama who do the same thing you did all the time and I don’t hate them because I can’t put a face to them and most of them are only hitting other Alabamans.  Just please stop being famous.  The rule is you get to be a worthless cancer if you’re good at something.  Either write better music, stop hitting women or go away.  I did like the part where you make 30 sleeping women cum just by walking by them, though. – DT

Florence + the Machine – Never Let Me Go

 
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Earlier this year I had the privilege to see Florence play at the Santa Barbara Bowl and since then this song has been on most of my playlists. Florence is definitely creepy but in a way where you can’t stop watching (or listening) and this video shows that. I really have no idea what is going on in this video besides the fact that she’s at an ice skating rink and a bathroom sink is overflowing. But hell it’s such a good song I don’t really care. She looks like a mix of the girl from The Ring and Bryce Dallas Howard’s character in Lady in the Water. I’m not sure why she is on the ice in her socks but she is odd so I let it slide. There are parts where she is ice socking around with this druggy emo kid and they seem happy. So good for her. This song is awesome. This video is weird. She is amazing. -RC

JUSTIN BEIBER-BOYFRIEND

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The Biebs has gone through puberty, and is taking a step towards manhood. Albeit it’s a baby step, but it’s still a move forward. He’s trying to prove he’s more than an ubiquitous hairdo, and has some sex in him. This song is laced with almost sexual innuendos. Can innuendo be leaning towards an innuendo? That’s what the song is filled with—it’s like the Beibs learned about sex, but isn’t quite sure what it is yet. He knows it involves touching boobs though, which is what he does almost immediately when the girl ‘character’ is introduced. Seriously, go back and watch it when he’s leaning on the car. He reaches up, grabs her tit and rubs down her side. This video also proves he’s finally old enough to watch the Fast and the Furious movies, and fucking loved them! Come on guys, cars! It’s evident throughout the video, the Beibs wants to b the winner of the crown Michael Jackson left behind, as if it Justin Timberlake didn’t already own that shit. To conted with Timberlake, the memory of Jackson, and his own mentor Usher, Beibster has to learn how to dance, or get a director who will show him dance without those quick cutaways that makes it look like he’s a sham. Because no one wants a pop star who’s a fraud-MG