The 5 Best Videos Of The Week
There were too many good music videos this week. Moby escaped the usual Wayne Coyne acid-reflux and made something fun and pretty and way friendlier than most of Coyne’s recent fare. TV On The Radio turned a meteor into a sympathetic character. They Might Be Giants taught pieces of broccoli how to play air guitar. Empire Of The Sun made their glam-alien schtick way more human and pathetic and interesting. I enjoyed all those videos enormously. I just enjoyed the videos below more.
5. Katy Perry – “Roar” (Dir. Grady Hall & Mark Kudsi)
If only the ending to Lost had been this satisfying. (I’m worried, however, that I’m getting an inaccurate image of Nokia smartphones’ durability and battery life.)
4. Team Spirit – “Phenomenon” (Dir. HannesJohannes)
An epic saga concludes with the sight of a dicknosed Nazi lady being sucked down a portal to hell, after the guy from the ’80s Big Mac commercials shoots Hitler’s brain through the back of its skull. So yeah, they stuck the landing.
3. Sleigh Bells – “Bitter Rivals” (Dir. Sleigh Bells)
Alexis Krauss is such a vivid, charismatic presence that she doesn’t need the little dancing kid or the backup chicks who do the synchronized Kool-Aid wig-flips. But she has them anyway. Take notes.
2. G-Dragon – “Coup D’Etat” (Dir. Suh Hyun Seung)
K-pop boy genius comes gunning for Nicki Minaj’s “evolutionary Missy Elliott” crown, gets beat from Diplo and Baauer, makes four-minute Jodorowsky movie. And it’s still not the week’s best movie, because amazing things happen all the time.
1. Dizzee Rascal – “I Don’t Need A Reason” (Dir. Emile Sornin)
It’s been a week, and my brain has still not recovered. Help.