Word: songfulness
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Unfortunately, that’s about it. For all the pro-Women’s Center drum-banging about dialogue and awareness-raising, so far the net result of this victory amounts to little more than an expensive pile of free food and xeroxed paper—including song sheets for The (exclusively male) Din and Tonics, no less! Attendance at the Radcliffe Union of Students’ weekly meetings is already down from around 15 near the start of term to as few as four people nowadays...
...tear each others’ faces off. Gold lamé puff-sleeves are ripped to shreds, and corsages go flying. The sexy are made to be distinctly not. The video is filmed in reverse—the director claims it’s a visual pun on the palindromic song title, but that seems like an ad hoc explanation more artistically palatable than the truth: it looks cool. It opens with shots of hair-pulling and punches, only to turn into a fight abated. Brawlers fly out of swimming pools, piñatas are thrown into trees, and the cake...
...through candy-cane forests and lollipop trees wearing the flouncy frocks that remind us of childhood—except they are a whole lot shorter than you remembered. She later titillates with the most revealing girl-scout costume you’ve ever seen. In the words of the song, which seem to capture the essence of both middle-school pubescence and this fantasyland video, “I smell sex and candy here.” And for Fergie, these are things that go together well. The song deals almost entirely with how much men want her?...
...love to talk about couture brands, brass knuckles (which are, not coincidentally, the logo for their brand), and knives. Whether that knowledge is of a practical variety is open to interpretation: it’s possible that Benji Madden has knifed a hipster or two in his day (the song is not kind to that fey breed), but I doubt it. In the video, lead singer Joel Madden looks like he wandered onto the set fresh off a hard day’s work on Wall Street and started singing without even removing his coat. Despite Joel doing his diabolical...
...pool; also several of his dollar bills, which are generously offered up for the camera’s perusal. It’s clear Jones prefers basketball to football. “Ballin!” goes the hook, and Jones does exhibit a nice stroke. He remixed the song for the Giants, but it’s the Denver Nuggets that his team—the Diplomats—most resembles. Seriously. First, there’s Diplomats patriarch Cam’ron, who was actually a standout on his high school basketball squad. He?...