BLOWN AWAY

Last night Carrie Underwood OWNED her performance at the 2013 Grammy Awards, presented live at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles. Beyond her gorgeous voice, awesome song writing, and general beauty... she pushed the technological envelope with her innovative costume choice.

This super cool concept utilized projection mapping to activate the billowing skirt of her platinum colored Theia ball gown which was also adorned with thousands of reflective Swarovski crystals. Gorge.

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STICKS & STONES

Loving this new video from British import Arlissa.

Swamps, check.
Waistline, check.
Motocross Gang, check. 

XTINA LIVE AT THE 2012 AMA's

Legendary Latin Diva Gloria Estefan was tasked with introducing Legs 'n' Dairy Latin Deeeva Christina Auguilera on the 40th Annual American Music Awards last week.

XTINA looks and sounds amazing/impressive, but let's be honest she's been churning this out since she was six years old. She doesn't even look like she's trying, rather that all this insanity is just another day at the office. However, this is a totally different girl than the one we get on The Voice.

I'm digging the hair & make-up, and loving the star-encrusted corset courtesy of The Blonds:

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BILLY MEETS MADGE

I absolutely LOVE this clip from The Conan O'Brien Show featuring everyone's favorite pedestrian lunatic Billy Eichner for a few reasons:

- He quiz's everyday New Yorkers about the upcoming election.... and the upcoming fall tv line up.
- When the crazy lady makes the inadvertent Jon Benet Ramsay reference at 3:05
- I agree with Billy that Honey Boo Boo is a TOTAL escape.
- The fierce New York City attitute at 3:54
- Yankee Stadium is like a stone's throw from my apt in Harlem.
- Billy gets on-stage during rehearsal to MEET MADONNA during sound-check. 
- "Vogue, Mother Fuckers!"
- All the awesome, behind-the-scenes shots of the totally awesome staging by Tait
- Rocco's cameo
- "Love you in Dick Tracy!"
- How generally excited he is to meet Madonna.

ABOUT 'LAST NIGHT'

The boys from KAZAKY are at it again, writhing around nearly naked in the video for their latest single "Last Night".

Which, as usual, is fine by me.

Love the simple, yet effective mirror image/kaleidoscope effect. And the abs.

ALL OF THE LIGHTS --- "Luminous" by Jeward

Twinsy pop duo Jeward's video for "Luminous" totally surprised me.

Never would have expected it, but I'm actually really into what they are up to here.... 

How You Gonna Fix It?

New Music Crush: BONFIRE by Donold Glover Childish Bambino

I was sold after seeing his first live tv appearance on Jimmy Fallon a couple of weeks ago, but now I'm going gaga for DONALD CLOVER aka Childish Bambino:


Bonfire from Donald  Glover on Vimeo.

Lost & Found

Rihanna lets us have it (yet again) with her new video for "We Found Love". It's dark and dangerous, and dares to be everything Britney's "Criminal" is not.

It's shaky, hand-held vibe and fast cuts are jarring, and the art direction makes me go-- wait, is this a Levi's commercial? And then I'm all like, no way... RiRi is a ho for Armani Jeans, right?

Right now somewhere in the world Ryan Mcginley is going "huh?".

But I dig it.

Let's break it down:

Okay, so RiRi lives in the big city, but it's kinda gloomy out-- so she's not that into it.

  

But she's got a fine man in her life... and  he's totally artsy.

 

 And he doesn't like that it's so bleak either.

 So, they take a bath.

Together. (Love the product placement, btw)

 And smoke.

 Together.

Go forth. 

"Levi's... getch your Leviiiii's...."

 

I'm not even going to dignify this with a remark. 

 Look familiar? See the Too Cool For Pool invite for yourself. We were way-way ahead of this one.

 

They eat dingy fast food.....

 

Things are gettin' stormy....

 The try to let off some steam at an underground local skate park.

 But that's not enough, so they take some pills. A lot of pills. 

Their eyes go all Requiem-for-a-Dream. 

 The room goes crazy. 

 They go freak-nasty...

  Great, now there's a mosh pit.

Oh, gawd-- it's just too much to try explaining. Just go watch the hot mess for your self. 

PS - when do I get to make a full-time job of analyzing pop music videos.

PPS - who said the music video was a dead medium. 

Gordon Voidwell

I officially have a big crush on you, dude.

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Dancing Till the World Ends

MY NEW FAVORITE: LES MIZ EDITION

Far and way, this is my new favorite version of the uber-gay "On My Own" featuring @celiakb Celia Keenan-Bolger (25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee).

This one's for you, @kellyambereng.



Please also reference Katie Holmes version below, #barf:

#OMFG #HIAM

After weeks of antici-pation (Rocky Horror Reference), the reigning and self-proclaimed "Queen of Pop" Ms. Britney Spears has finally released her latest video for the dance odyssey HOLD IT AGAINST ME.




In a new pop universe, where nothing is EVER new-- rather a reference of something else, which was probably a reference of something originally inspired by Warhol anyway... bleh. Anyway.....

The piece recalls many reoccurring themes and motifs from the heritage of Brit's long and illustrious career:

1. OUTER-SPACE: Our girl has been 'obsassed' with rocket-ships and alien planets since the days of OOPS... so it's no surprise to see the video open with shots of a firey asteroid of, errr... sheer talent (?) plummeting toward planet Earth.

2. SURVEILLANCE: The whole thing has a behind-the-scenes, photoshoot-of-a-photoshoot, paparazzi sort of feel that, as I've mentioned before, reminds me of Fischerspooner's original EMERGE video. We've seen it before in such classics as SLAVE4U, EVERYTIME,

3. HOT BOYS. I mean just take a look at these screen-grabs:

BUT MY FAVORITE PART OF ALL--

THE ROCKY HORROR LIPS:

#HIAM #TEASE

Let's get this straight:

- Confetti Canons: yes please.
- Neon Anything: done.
- Surveillance-Noir Cinematography. Um, okay....
- A Ballgown? Gurhllll, did you just go see Wicked again recently or something?
- Hot male back-up dancers- well, no duh. But at least now you have my attention again.
- Her weave looks great.
- The lighting reminds me of the original Fischerspooner video for Emerge**

** Why do I feel the need to reference the original Fischerspooner video for Emerge so frequently?

gra·tu·i·tous

This is completely the absurd-- so of course that means I've watched it twice already since posting two minutes ago.

ROBYN + ROLLERCOASTERS = PERFECTION

TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT, BITCHES: ROBYN LIVE AT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL!

I'm getting amped-up all day by enjoying classic Robyn hits, such as this little gem from an amusement park in somewhere in Europe or something.....

5 DAYS TIL ROBYN @ RADIO CITY

Thanks, WORLDOFWONDER

After All These Years

My original pop obsession is shutting. it. down.

period.

Exactly what I was thinking....

Can you hang with me?