The Darkness’ third album Hot Cakes is every bit as good as the band’s first two so it’s nice to see them getting another push here, with a video for “With A Woman,” my favorite song on Hot Cakes. The video delivers exactly the type of referential ham-and-cheez that both attracted people to the band and subsequently made them a novelty in the first place: This clip is basically an homage to Van Halen’s “Hot For Teacher” … until a furry in a bear suit finds his (her?) way on to the stage to dance lasciviously with the band during the smoke-filled performance shots. This is allegedly Part 1 of a series (which is “to be continued”), so maybe the band is planning a series of vids that pay tribute to ’80s MTV classics — adding the creepy bear-suited deviant to spice things up. If so, I suggest they do one for “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us” — my other favorite song on Hot Cakes — and match it with a video inspired by “The Safety Dance” clip. The bear would fit right in. Check out “With A Woman” below.
The Darkness are on tour in the UK and Europe right now. Dates and tickets are at theactualdarkness.com.
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whoa, whoa, whoa. hot cakes doesn’t hold a candle to permission to land.
1. They already made a video for “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us.” I guess they could still make another one, but it seems unlikely.
2. There is already an “Episode 2,” the music video for “Everybody Have a Good Time.” It continues the story of the ‘sexy bear’ and has nothing in particular to do with 80s music videos.
Thanks for the new video, but it would really help if you didn’t write the blurbs without really looking into what you are saying.
Permission to Land was good but Hot Cakes I’d say is their best album so far, it just rocks from start to finish and their Street Spirit (Fade Out) cover if fucking amazing!
Quick question…any of you heard the band Foxy Shazam? The reason I ask is although I think Foxy completely rips from QUEEN, when I saw this video all I could think of was Foxy. Especially with the lead singer of The Darkness rockin the same “stache” as the lead singer of Foxy. Too bad The Darkness have been around longer. Not by much though. One year in fact. Hmmmm.
Jeffrey
creator of MITNG.org
No sir, you are mistaken. They have been around since 2000. The Darkness have toured with Foxy Shazam. But really though there is no comparison to Justin’s ways, his stache or otherwise. Fozy Shazam does their own thing, and the Darkness do their own thing.