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...Lohan’s ‘Rumors’? It’s a shit show,” she admits.A LITTLE TOO IRONICBirnbaum brings up that most crucial of pop listening tools—irony. Amy R. Klein ’07, lead singer of the punk band Plan B for the Type A’s, explains how an outwardly ironic stance towards pop can save one’s credibility.“I’m a sucker for music as novelty, songs that are witty or funny,” Klein claims...
It’s best to just look at the video as spectacle and not statement. While it’s possible that there is some sort of connection between its elements (perhaps it’s about the Munich Olympics?), odds are that the band just wanted a video that would make people go, “Ooh, cool,” happened to see some freeze-frame photos of athletes, and thought it would distract their fans from the fact that they sound exactly like The Bravery...
There are worse goals. The video is original without being particularly innovative, playing like an unusually well-done and non-bombastic Gatorade commercial. The band footage is unmemorable, and the athlete sections, while fun to look at, aren’t exactly groundbreaking. It’s a bit dreamlike, but it doesn’t have that ecstatic, unhinged feeling that pervades the best strange videos. It might grab your attention for a moment, and it might even make you thirsty for a sports drink, but the video certainly won’t stick with...
...kings of hip is both unexpected and disappointing. The abrasive, stuttering, constantly moving camera-work for “Heart in a Cage,” the second single from the band’s third album, “First Impressions of Earth,” places the band in the midst of a cold New York winter. Conjuring up the claustrophobia and bleakness of Manhattan is a new direction for a band whose earlier videos and songs celebrated the grime and buzz of the city’s nightlife. In “Heart in a Cage...
It’s a not exactly a new kind of video for T.I., but it is a better one, glitzier and funnier than the clips for his previous hits “Rubber Band Man” and “Bring ‘Em Out.” Handheld cameras and dour-faced club jumpers have been replaced by white suits and rims that glint in the L.A. sunlight. As is appropriate for a video that is selling a movie, there’s a lot of interesting and un-explained stuff going on: T.I. plays...