Lopez Blogs

Ay up! it's Wednesday! It's a bit cloudy out! You will probably need a plethora of video breakdowns to get you over your midweek hump (i had my midweek hump before work this morning. It was most satisfying). And even if you don't need them, they are (hopefully) an amusing distraction from the new "Bonnie Tyler remixed"-esque Lady Gaga album :) Grab a cuppa, a nice digestive and dig in my pretties. It's going to be tremendulent...

LE KID ~ AMERICA:

• It all starts off very pink. Like an extremely pink Reservoir Dogs with the Kidders strolling down a hallway looking very cocksure of themselves. The girls have nice yellow heels on.
• Anton looks very lovely indeed, but that is generally to be expected. I like his hi-top trainers.
• At around 20 seconds, there is a very close up of a microphone. It manages to look very sexual indeed and I am rarely aroused by inanimate objects. Though I did sort of fancy Ken when I was little!
• It turns out the young Kidders are playing to some old folks in what looks suspiciously like an old people's home. They are being generally ignored. This is qu'elle tragique. Though quite civilised and restrained of the oldies. If they were playing in my front room, I'd be leaping around like a loon on loon tablets at a loon convention.
• (I would also probably throw my pants at Anton, but I cannot confirm or deny these rumours)!
• They give it their all, but sadly the oldies seem to be more interested in their game of Wist. It is a bit addictive though isn't it? Like an old tyme equivalent of Tetris...
• Oh it's time to move on. Le Kid get changed in a laundry room and the beardy dude is fiddling with Anton's bow tie. As Doctor Who affirmates on a regular basis "bow ties are cool". This is stone cold fact people...
• They do a typical pre-show all hands on top of each "and break!" type movement. This has no doubt got them all excited for their next corporate gig! Amazes!
• It's playing to a bunch of salesmen who are at the less pretty end of the spectrum. Or perhaps Le Kid are just so darned attractive that anyone looks less pretty next to them. Or perhaps the people at the sales conference have inner beauty. Discuss :P
• They can't even spell Le Kid (LA KID?!) right the silly sales people and one fella is having a rollicking time clapping horribly out of time. The goon :)
• From about 2m20s onwards for ten seconds or so, the two Le Kid fellas are really rocking out in the background. Both clearly have "the allure". I may have rewound and watched that bit a few times...
• Fed up of the sales conference, a tiny european car has taken them to their latest gig, where they seem to have adopted a nautical theme. This is quite wise as everyone knows boat shoes are very de rigour (particularly when paired with chinos and a stripey top). Le Kid for the fashion win
• They appear now to be at some dire party where people have to chug brown booze to make the night seem better. Surely even just the mention of Le Kid would make this party happen?!
• OH NO! Someone has done that drunk unkle at a wedding thing of tying their tie round their head like a warrior. They do not look very warrior like, though they are rocking the "booze sweats" look magnificently!!
• Thanks to beer goggles and a swoony Le Kid track, some people are finally finding love. Presumably in America. Mercifully it all ends before the couple on the dancefloor start dry humping ;)
• Just so you know, the song is still musical brilliance. Bring on the album!!

• After that lovely diversion that was the free track in 24 hours, which is still quite rollicking, Maroon 5 are now back with that lovely track from Hands All Over that features those country superstars, Lady Antebellum.
• There is a fire. And some water. And a grizzled old cowboy who is being sponged down by some nubile young thing.
• She appears to be patching up his gunshot wound while having a good old sing song to each other. It reminds me of a western. Probably that Paint Your Wagons spoof from the Simpsons some years back :)
• After a minute, this is essentially still happening. It's as carefully considered as Brokeback Mountain. The English Literature dude in me (not literally) would say that the languid, portrait nature of the visual is representative of the musical style of the song. That sounds proper fancy!
• (Really I'm just picturing a video that is a bit Brokeback with Adam and the sandyblonde LA fella!!)
• She is taking out a bit of buck shot. This is like deleted scenes from Dr Quinn: Medicine Woman. That was quite a good saturday night show wasn't it?
• This is a dramatically different video to Misery isn't it? I'm two minutes in now and nothing else has happened either. I was hoping Adam would show up Bonanza style. That would be skill!
• OOO HANG ON! FRONTIER LAND PORN! There is a flash of lady garter (not lady gaga) at around 2m35s. The floozy ties it around the fellas boot. What on earth does this mean!? Is it like college dudes hanging their frat tie on the door??
• Oh! It just got interesting. After carefully cleaning his wounds, the frontier chick takes grizzled old souse cowboy's gun, tells him he is "out of goodbyes" (ah continuity) and pops a hole in his chest. The end.
• That was a bit intense wasn't it? Like a Brandon Flowers video for Crossfire but without the fella in peril aspect...

• I wrote about this standout track from the excellent and exquisite new Mickey Cupid EP, "Baptized In The Sun", not so long back. Now there is a video that is equally as magnificent as the song.
• (Sidebar ~ although it couldn't be more perfect as it is, I sort of want the Sugababes to come back with a single that is very much in the same vein as this. They should absolutely work with Mickey Cupid)
• In sheer contrast to the maroon 5 video, so much happens in the first twenty seconds that it is hard to keep up! There is some high speed motorway action, some rehearsing and some slick/sick dance moves.
• Then they are on the underground, going down an escalator, doing some more moves and then looking quite pensive in the back of a car.
• Pause at exactly 47seconds and you will see a fella with the cares of the world upon his young shoulders. The only way to remedy this is to actually and only care about the weekend. (See what I did there??!)
• A lot more performing then happens in a sweaty club (you can't really tell it's sweaty, i'm making an assumption, but if I was swirling around with gay abandon to this song, I would probably work up a sweat). The tall dude with the hat is doing his mixing on a laptop. In your history books you will one day read about when people just mixed with a thing called vinyl. Oh how times change :)
• At around a minute and a half, a girl sort of is doing her own thing, swaying along with a glass of wine. This is very representative of me - except my enormous glass of wine never really gets that empty. I do like a constant top up!!
• Now it is in a recording studio, back on the underground and lugging a heavy rucksack around. I'm sort of exhausted and wanting Friday night to arrive just watching this...
• Then there is a brief but tantalising glimpse at the outdoor shoot that I believe popped up on their website recently.
• All too soon the whirlwind weekend is over and it's a manhug goodbye at the airport. And like all good pop music, you just can't wait for it to start again. Immensicles.