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Now that YouTube's gone back to no-pop-promos basics - ie "this video is not available in your country, so be off with you to more illegal places" - it is good to see that the stars of music are still endeavouring to keep up a presence. Pharrell, in particular, has had a very good week. See:
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The new Bloc Party video, for the Armand van Helden remix of Signs, is what some might call "dark". That is because it has a singing mouth in it. In between a lady's legs. We wanted to know who came up with such an idea. So, after the jump, come and play the fun new Lipster game, Who Directed The New Bloc Party Video?
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There's a new Kid Cudi video on the internets, for Superboo. Surprisingly it features ladiez being all sexy and that. Except that instead of dancing around in pants in the Common People supermarket, as in Day 'N' Nite, they're writhing around in black and white looking like they've lost their way to the perfume ad. Bor-ing. These things could make it better.
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It starts promisingly enough. Nick Zinner is reading a book about flying saucers! They are dubbed over in Japanese! Karen O is wearing a poncho that cost £12 at Thorpe Park but it did protect her on the log flume! "Why, yes we did go to a David Lynch retrospective at the arty local cinema this weekend, how did you guess?" But wait! Karen O and co are in danger of getting slapped with a Daily Mail front page. See:
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So YouTube and most music videos have had a tiff, and for the time being at least, we the consumers are left promo-less and bereft. No matter. The concept of music + visuals has long been dominated by "directors" who think they know what goes together. Now is the time to rise up against the tyranny of trained, educated, skillful people! Here is what we must do!
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Ridiculo-video guru Priya talks a walk through spookyland with The Kills, now onto their 47th single from Midnight Boom. Warning: involves cinnamon pastries...
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This morning we tried a little experiment, fond as we are of pop science on this here portal. It involved watching the new Fever Ray video for When I Grow Up with the sound turned down. Now then, When I Grow Up is the follow-up single to the really rather terrifying If I Had A Heart. And as if that first youtubulation was not scary enough, Fever Ray have now gone one better.
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In the first of a brand new occasional column kind of thing, Priya Elan takes a scalpel to the latest top pop promos and discovers the beating heart inside their cavernous chests / makes jokes about screengrabs.
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Walter Meego - responsible for one of the shiniest songs in our countdown of last year's top tracks (and that was the Van She re-rub of Forever, readers) - has done a new videothing.
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