Ed. note: Once again, Idolator intern Kate Richardson scours the video sites, looking for the best fan-made music videos. In this entry, she looks at two clips that honor the Star Wars saga:
As part of Idolator’s continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Jackin’ Pop editor Michaelangelo Matos breaks down rankings from every genre imaginable. After the click-through, he cracks open the classic Marshall Crenshaw-edited book Hollywood Rock: A Guide to Rock’n’Roll in the Movies and looks at the book’s 10 highest-ranking movies released between 1959 and 1964:
If you were ever wondering whether or not 50 Cent actually had the libido of a 14-year-old boy, wonder no further: The first sequence in his clip for “Ayo Technology,” 50’s Timbalake-aided attempt to drum up buzz for Curtis, features a scene where he’s equipped with just enough X-ray vision to sees… More »
The other night I was at the New York Mets’ annual “merengue night,” which features a postgame concert, players being announced in Spanish and interstitial packages on topics like Dominican restaurants in Queens. After the playing of “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” during the seventh-inning stretch, “Macarena” came over the speakers. I laughed; my friend thought it was funny. I swung around to see if anyone was doing the dance (because I couldn’t remember its hand gestures for the life of me) and behind me was a row of eight-year-olds, all doing the dance perfectly, and being pretty serious about it to boot. Eight-year-olds! They weren’t even alive during the song’s fourteen-week reign of terror at No. 1!
Like most music nerds in their late twenties, MTV’s 120 Minutes was a staple of my adolescence, and a prime influence on my taste in indie and alternative rock. Thanks to the miracle of YouTube, anyone can troll around for almost any video that would have ever aired on the program, but the anonymous curator of 120minutes.tumblr.com improves on that by posting five embedded alt-rock classics per page, roughly approximating the experience of watching the show by adding a sense of continuity and an element of surprise.
The video for Beck’s “Round The Bend,” which was created by video artist Jeremy Blake, somehow manages to be even more low-key and glacially paced than the song itself. The images slowly melt together, leaving abstracted, animated washes of bright colors while only occasionally revealing the nature of their form. There are no figures; when the face of Beck appears, it’s only as a two-dimensional representation directly lifted from the art that Blake created for the 2002 album Sea Change. It’s a gorgeous piece, and it’s likely the final music video of Blake’s career–he went missing last week and is now presumed dead.
Chamillionaire’s clip for “Hip-Hop Police” takes a serious subject–the idea that hip-hop is currently the No. More »
Blabbermouth has posted a press release citing unimpeachable scientific data claiming that 35 percent of metal songs contain Satanic content:
Never let it be said that Beyonce isn’t a total pro: Even after taking a header down an on-stage flight of stairs last night in Orlando–while wearing a red, floor-length number that, come to think of it, was probably what led to her downfall–she manages to pick herself up, dust herself off, and… More »
Sure, there’s a lot of impolite behavior at shows, but what better place to get the definitive word on bad concert behavior than the overheated boardwalk at Coney Island–which may be one of the least pleasant places to see live music ever? More »
