It follows the promotion of his solo album, which has a PR rep for Gibbard begrudgingly breaking into warehouses, faking drinking binges and starring in his own reality show, Gibbard House. Director Tom Scharpling has had a great run of music videos this year, notably with Aimee Mann’s “Labrador” clip and now with Gibbard’s hilarious mini-story in “Teardrop Windows” from the solo album, Former Lives. Yeah, we’re still thinking on that one, too. Benjamin Gibbard – “Teardrop Windows”īenjamin Gibbard: Bad boy. Longstreth’s creative control over the band’s videos is admirable, and the way he’s reconstructed footage from “Hi Custodian” is impressively appropriate to the song it represents. Each scene is as bizarrely constructed as we’ve come to expect from Dirty Projectors. Several different scenes in this video are made all the more powerful with David Longstreth’s delivery of the main lyric, “I’m about to die.” Whether it’s in bed on a rooftop, enclosed in the back of a truck, or shut up in an archaic bedroom with the pope, if he is in fact on the verge of death, no one seems to be very concerned about it. All this being said, I still have no idea what Takis are. If you listen to it a few times in a row, you’ll more than likely be singing about having “fingers stained red” in your head for the rest of the day. The kids spitting out verses appear to be genuinely talented, the rhymes are legitimately clever, their flows are seamless and their confidence and charisma are off the charts. The video for “Hot Cheetos & Takis,” which was released this August, is anything but forgettable.
Here are the 25 music videos that brought humor, insight, opinions, and often just plain fun into the world of music this year.Ī bunch of kids rapping about their favorite gas station snacks? Sounds cute, but more than likely forgettable. Music videos can also be political statements, emotional confessions, or even just lighthearted fare for established fans of the music. In this age of Internet searches and YouTube playlists, a great video can pluck a song from obscurity and make it a worldwide sensation.
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