good videos (except one)

Rihanna - S.O.S.
this one is pretty good. she's super hot.

Rihanna - Umbrella
but it's not as good as this one. so wierd. "ella ella ella a a" and that beat is smoking. where did she come from? (a triangle, i guess. OK, actually Barbados)

Beyonce ft. Shakira - Beautiful Liar
the message of this video is clear: men, don't play your lady or else she'll meet up with your other lady and they'll writhe around next to each other, looking so hot that you'll die from sexual frustration. also, the middle eastern keyboard part sounds like something i heard in the nile cafe on the middle eastern club night. oh yeah, shakira is half lebanese (and the other half is catalan/italian.)

Justin Timberlake - Director's Cut - What Goes Around...
i didn't see the superbowl fiasco live, but is it just me or between that and this video (not to mention cry me a river) doesn't it seem like dude's trying to show that he's just as paranoid and wierd as michael jackson is? well, he's still got a long way to go, he hasn't even realized that the jews are after him yet.

Justin - SexyBack
this one has the whole paranoia thing going too, but it seems more like a bond-rip than anything, especially given that they tried to make the woman look like eva green, who apparently turned down the part in the video twice. hot song, reached it's peak for me when i saw an entire gym full of highschool seniors getting seriously drrrty to it.

Justin - My Love
this is great cause it's pretty goofy, i like to imagine justin and timbaland hanging out on the weekends, wearin sweats, listening to R Kelley and making squeak toy noises. but i admit it's hard to imagine anyone with a falsetto like that wearing sweats. whoa, wtf with those violins? and he's really not shy about checking out that lady's butt.

Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous
speaking of hot. and nelly's not bad either. just kidding. i like how justin is in this video for no reason.

Nelly Furtado - Say it Right
what is this, 1993? did michael mann direct this? she's got a creepy ubermench-shampoo model (remember kelly lebrock?) thing goin on here, but timbaland is, as usual, goofy as hell ("hey!") the videos from the next nelly furtado album are goin to be the two of them eating pizza and watching videos at home on a friday night.

Nelly F. - Maneater
this is exactly what what would happen if nelly furtado found neo by accident late one night.

Hall and Oates - Maneater
if you didn't anticipate this you're not trying hard enough. words fail me here. but just in case you take my appreciation for hall and oates as ironic, let me say that halls ad libs on the outro are really great ("the woman is wild, whoo-o-o!") that woman later turned back into the panther, which turned into...

Michael Jackson - Black or White
...michael jackson. isn't it amazing that it was george wendt's career that this video ruined? racist. isn't that an eddie van halen signature guitar? lil mac has got? it's pretty incredible that i forgot this part with the african tribe... too bad they cut the part where mj and arnold schwarzenegger dance with a group of orthodox rabbis. the world wasn't ready for a man that loved his testicles this much.

The Pogues - Dirty Old Town (with wierd Joe Strummer interview)
holy shit.

Shane MacGowan and Nick Cave - What a Beautiful World
as buddies, these two are much "realer" (recall that nick cave is from australia) or at least scarier than jt & timbaland.

Shane MacGowan and Christy Moore - A Pair of Brown Eyes
did someone say "real?"

The Pogues - A Pair of Brown Eyes
this was directed by alex cox of "repo man" fame. sorry it's not the best quality. seems pretty political.

The Drones - Jezebel
wow. if you're sensitive about animal experimentation, be forwarned. all this imagery could be a little excessive, but in the context of an anti-war statement (as i take it to be) it makes sense.

The Drones (Gareth Liddiard) - Sharkfin Blues
whatd he say?

Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend (German Version)
what the fuck is a "Fwankenstein"? look, i took german, and that word doesn't exist. avril, you're new single sucks und "es ist kein Geheimniss." given her previous songs weren't exactly Cole Porter, but it's hard to take this after that semi-sincere stuff she was doing before. well, they can't all be good.

Lata Mangeshkar - Salaam-e-Ishq
many of you won't have the constitution for all three hours of Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, which is too bad, but you don't have to miss out on this music sequence, which is very good for you.