Apparently purple neon is all the rage in music videos this season...first Estelle rocked out a violet hue, and now Goldfrapp have splattered some all over their new clip. As for the plot of 'Rocket' there is a WOMAN and a MAN and a ROCKET that looks a bit like a wang.
While 'Rocket' isn't their strongest song, or video for that matter, it's great to see Goldfrapp return to a more upbeat sound. Don't get us wrong - 'A&E' was brilliant, but the duo are at their best when the balls are to the wall.
The other day we wrote about the new jam by Estelle (pictured above seated in the 'home' section of an Urban Outfitters) and David Guetta, a banging club corker that is a million miles from 'American Boy.'
Well now the video has arrived, and by our count it is squarely in the QUITE GOOD to MIND BLOWINGLY-BRILLIANT range.
Let's tally it up shall we:
Purple theme: +1
Kaleidoscope effect: +1
Things that happen in SPACE: +2
Rappy bit where a man stands there and points because he cannot risk appearing 'pop' even while performing in a pop video: -1
Pop star in a dress that is giant on the bottom but normal on top: +4
Top-notch CGI: +1
Neon: +2
A GIANT FINGER that points from the sky FOR NO REASON: +1
Estelle dancing: -2
TOTAL: 9 points, plus an additional 3 discretionary points with no justification whatsoever just to underscore the completely arbitrary nature of the point system, for a sum of TWELVE.
What that number means, readers, is ultimately up to you, but I think we can all agree that it is clearly a VERY GOOD SCORE.
Scandinavi-babe Agnes had a big breakthrough hit with 'Release Me' a few months ago, and she's doing her lip-glossiest, Fergie drag queeniest best to pull off a repeat performance. Unfortunately, her follow up single 'On and On' is a lot more Euro and a lot less fantastic than 'Release Me.' To be fair, 'Release' was a lightning-in-a-bottle corker, but while that track took 'late 90's ecstasy-riddled dance mix' and made it NOW and BRILLIANT, this just seems like it came straight from a 'stuff we danced to in the 90's when we were rolling and had glow sticks for some reason' playlist on the computer of some middle aged IT guy in Dayton. We're putting in our bets that the rest of this record campaign goes down as an also-ran, and then on her next album she identifies exactly what made 'Release Me' so appealing to pop fans around the world, chucks out 8 massive singles from one LP and becomes the Euro Lady Gaga. Or she does a sex tape with Basshunter, gets dropped from her label, and lives out her days behind the till at a Boots pharmacy. :( Either way, we're off to listen to 'Release Me' again.
If ScopiSat had to bet on it, we'd wager Gabriella Cilmi is about to be huge.
Her 'Woman On A Mission' is one of our songs of the spring (yes we know it's not spring yet but we are big fans of wishful thinking), and if she keeps turning in absolutely brilliant performances like this there will be no stopping her. Well done, champagne all around, etc etc.
Make no mistake, kids, this is a world away from 'American Boy.' But never fear - it is also pretty damn good. After 'Boy''s huge success Estelle never quite caught on, with her other singles flailing around in the UK Top 40's lower reaches. The album did ok, but clearly she had to come back with something big or risk living out her days in Blu Cantrell country. Well, mission accomplished. 'Freak' is all samples and beats and epic drunken dancing at the gay bar, and heavily features the hook from that song from the 80's or 90's that everyone knows but doesn't remember the name of. In other words it's quite acceptable and we here at ScopiSat can't wait for the video.
"Well done."
The video premiere has been pushed back a week, apparently, but should surface sometime in the beginning of March. The single is out in a couple weeks.
Sometimes a song isn't particularly fresh or current or controversial or by Kylie but is still EPIC and LITERALLY AMAZING. This is one of those songs. It has been on ScopiSat's iTunes repeat for the last two days and shows now signs of slowing down. 'The Twist' is a song by a Scottish band named Frightened Rabbit, and both are very very good pop things, despite the horror we imagine they would feel at being labeled as such.
'The Twist' is a Guillemots-meets-Vampire Weekend dorm room soundtrack kind of makes us wish we still had an RA, a bunk bed and a hidden stash of alcoholic cider the homeless guy bought us in exchange for a McRib sandwich and bus fare.
All their stuff is pretty damn ok, so buy it now on Fat Cat Records.
We have just watched a new video by Ke$ha. If you don't know, Ke$ha is a singer (sort of) who dresses like a homeless person and is here to SAVE POP MUSIC by using text-speak and putting symbols where letters should be.
The new video, for her upcoming single 'Blah Blah Blah' is banging around the internet but we can't get it to embed because an intern in the IT department of Ke$ha's label did something horribly, horribly wrong. Anyhow, it's nothing to write home about so if you were considering hunting it down in the wilds of the interwebs we will save you the trouble:
In the video a greasy young woman duct tapes a very attractive man's mouth shut and then watches a someone with guyliner and a fashion mullet play the guitar. There are some lazily choreographed 'dance moves' and some hand movements and all the while there is music.
Then the rap bit comes in and we all lose interest and then it ends.
There. That's three minutes of your life we have saved you. Unless you are a very slow reader (I'm looking at you, American public school system) in which case we have only saved you two.
If you still want to watch it, here it is finally:
***Worldwide viewers can still watch at the link below
EDIT: Also Ke$ha is bad at bowling
EDIT 2: The video is only out in the UK and has been blocked elsewhere, so if you're in Great Britain or can fool your computer into thinking you are, you may watch the video HERE
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