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07/26/2007
Beyonce Falls Down, Goes Boom
By now, most people (or most who'd care, anyway) have heard about the tumble down the stairs Beyonce took at her concert in Orlando on Tuesday. And judging by the number of views on the many videos of the incident -- presumably all posted by the "fans" Beyonce specifically asked not to post the thing -- pretty much everyone who cares has seen it as well.
Seriously. More than a million people have let their fingers do the clicking to watch Beyonce fall down. (I have, too, but that's my job.) If there's one thing that netizens like, it's watching people fall down. That little bit of social observation aside, allow me to say ...
This fall is spectacular.
Beyonce actually manages to fall on her ass, bounce off, and rebound onto her face. Then she gets up and jumps right back into the number. Officially, I'm appalled and concerned, but since her reps have put out the word that she's fine, I can also be impressed as hell. Damn.
07/25/2007
Crank dat Soulja Boy with Barney
Some time when I wasn't paying attention, "Crank dat Soulja Boy" seized the imaginations of... well, everyone but me, apparently. Now the Webiverse is crawling with dance tutorials, karaoke editions, and many, many homages.
You got your Soulja Spongebob, your Soulja Naruto... even Winnie the Pooh's kickin it Soulja-style. But for flawless editing, unbridled whimsy, and sheer joyous surreality, you simply can't beat the Barney edition.
Sure, the hours the creator must have spent voluntarily watching Barney might make you worry a bit. And every once in a while you may get distracted wondering what the hell those Barney kids were originally supposed to be doing. (There's one move I've dubbed the Hitlercize.) But the fact is, this is just a beautifully put-together video.
Simply put, this shit is tight, yo.
06/08/2007
Arctic Monkeys, "Fluorescent Adolescent"
While I don't know if this video is, as guitarist Jamie Cook claimed in an MTV interview, "one of the best videos in, like, the last ten years," it is a lot of fun. Plus, unlike a hell of a lot of videos hitting the streets lately, it actually seems to have something to do with the song.
Sure, on the surface, it may just look like the madcap mayhem of a bunch of vigilante clowns. But much like the way the song's jaunty beat and clever, rapid-fire lyrics slowly reveal the lament of a faded party girl, at its heart this video is lamenting lost innocence. It just happens to achieve that by featuring Snatch's Stephen Graham as an angry clown haunted by his past as he confronts a childhood friend gone bad.
Plus, clowns beating up bank robbers! Who doesn't enjoy that?
