omg

[lyssie]

HOW AWESOME IS EDDIE IZZARD? THIS AWESOME: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8256589.stm

(also, Obama posed with some cheap plastic light sabres. HOW DID WE MANAGE A PRESIDENT THAT AWESOME?)

In music video news, I finally watched the Beyonce and Taylor Swift videos.

I... ok. Don't take this the wrong way, but, FUCK has the music video industry gotten SHITTY.

Beyonce's Single Ladies vid won best vid of the year... really? It's three scantily-clad women bouncing. wtf. wtf. Also? En Vogue called. They'd like their money for the vids this ripped off. So did Madonna over Lucky Star.

Taylor Swift.... Well. Annie Lennox's 'Walking on Broken Glass' called. it wants its sets and costumes back. Or were those outtakes from the latest Pride & Prejudice remake?

To cleanse my brains, I actually went and watched me some Annie Lennox. eta: and some En Vogue, though I couldn't find the 'never gonna get it' vid on short notice. sigh.

Comments

[stars-like-dust.livejournal.com]

Taylor Swift's was for "You Belong To Me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AHzIq_n-DQ)" not "Love Story" (which I think is the one you referenced - Love Story's the one with the Pride and Prejudice costumes). I actually really liked the vid that won - it was cute and adorable and clearly very girly and teenage, but that's her market and exactly what she was aiming for.

Obama is pretty cool, yes. Light sabers FTW.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Ahh. I'll have to dig that up when I want some pain (I thought someone had mentioned it was LS, so).

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

IIRC correctly, the "Broken Glass" video was pretty much doing Dangerous Liaisons. Which would, I suspect, break the brains of Swift's primary demographic.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

yes. It has John Malkovich and hugh laurie!