I decided it was time to fight the censors. Just because there are a few naked girls mud wrestling or pillow fighting with their tits out in a music video, I’m not sure it should be completely banned from television. If it wasn’t for MTV2 we may have never seen half of the sexier artisitc videos. Duran Duran were very successful in the 1980s and they caused a great deal of controversy with their video for the release of Girls on Film, especially as it involved a few sexual fetishes. I personally enjoy seeing nude women on my screen, but the video did also have an important mesage about the exploitation of models at the time, which didn’t reach a big audience because of the editing for mainstream TV.
Perhaps the most beautiful music video ever produced. The song Where the Wild Rose Grow is an alt-rock song from writer Nick Cave who had fellow Australian Kylie Minogue singing on the track and appearing in the video. In the video, Minogue is playing Elisa Day who is admired by Nck’s character who then murders her. The general idea is that he wants to preserve her beauty rather than see it fade as she ages. After giving her a rose and asking if she wanted to see where the flower came from, he takes her to the river, kills her with a rock and then places here in the river, where the wild roses grow, in the pose of Millais’ painting Ophelia.
Director: Rocky Shenck
Watch it at YouTube and see for yourself, there is no need for any more words.
Why do we care? Because we have missed the cheeky white rapper and TMF (The Music Factory) is about the only music channel we get on terestial television in the UK. MTV actually bought them out years ago anyway.
Anyway, no surprise, really funny video taking the p*ss out of all the recent celebrity scandals and gossip. At one point he has a pretty nasty looking Amy Winehouse and am I mistaken in thinking the overly chubby lady at the start is a fake Jessica Simpson? Did I miss something State-side about her piling on the pounds or something?
OMG!#!#! I was hoping Britain could avoid these clean cut young men, but no it seems girls across the country are out in droves screaming out for some Jonas Brothers loving.
I can be rude, but they did take the high spots of number 2 and 7 on the most viewed YouTube vidoes of 2008 with Burnin’ Up and When You Look Me In The Eyes respecvtively, so they must be doing something right.
However, I refuse to watch the videos because the music would be Burnin’ my precious ears and I am sure it is more about catching a glimpes of the brothers and the artistic merit that they hit the top spots.
Oh did I forget to say why they are in the UK this month? Well they are promoting their new movie release Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience. Right. Well if it does as well as the hit teen movie Camp Rock then I am sure they will be a happy boy band.
Okay so it isn’t stricly a music video but then it is music and it is a video on YouTube :p So why is it here? Because it exceeded 100 million views and went viral within days of it being aired on television. For those who missed it, it was at the end of the first episode on Saturday 11 April in the UK. She is does not need to dream the dream! Live it Susan A truely inspiring and humbling performance sure to make Amanda cry. Not enough to make Simon Cowell stand and clap though but a lesson on not to pre-judge anyone by their appearance.
YouTube is being annoying about embedded to watch with link below:
Apparently the new definition for a video going viral is that it has had over 100 million views - ouch! As of 1 May 2009 Soulja Boy’s Crank That music video is the most viewed video online coming in with over 356 million people ‘reached’ according to visibilemeasures.com. That is a lot of hits, I wish my site had that many, then again maybe not, the bandwidth costs would be huge.
P.S. I have no f*ng idea what this rapper is saying
I decided it was time to fight the censors. Just because there are a few naked girls mud wrestling or pillow fighting with their tits out in a music video, I’m not sure it should be completely banned from television. If it wasn’t for MTV2 we may have never seen half of the sexier artisitc videos. Duran Duran were very successful in the 1980s and they caused a great deal of controversy with their video for the release of Girls on Film, especially as it involved a few sexual fetishes. I personally enjoy seeing nude women on my screen, but the video did also have an important mesage about the exploitation of models at the time, which didn’t reach a big audience because of the editing for mainstream TV.
A truely inspiring and humbling performance sure to make Amanda cry. Not enough to make Simon Cowell stand and clap though but a lesson on not to pre-judge anyone by their appearance.
