Frankmusik's "Better Off As Two" video pioneers skin-shedding dance moves

I think this is the best thing I've heard from Frankmusik. It is very "now", in a non-naff electro-pop kind of way.

I am rather fascinated with young fellamelad's dancing, too. He looks like he's trying to climb out of his skin, doesn't he?

Have you ever climbed out of your skin? How did it feel? Did you throw the skin away, or retain it as a skin suit? When you tried to climb back in to your skin, did you manage to cram in all your intestines and muscles and stuff? Have you ever tried to climb into someone else's skin? Have you ever sliced off someone's face and(Come this way please sir - The po-po)

[video: FrankmusikUK]

Posted by Stuart Waterman on March 3, 2025 10:20 AM in Pop Heaven / Pop Hell| Video
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Cahill's "Sex Shooter" video is definitely not about ladies getting jizzed and peed on

Cahill's "Sex Shooter" is the song equivalent of that point on a Friday when you look at your Facebook and EVERYONE's status is a variation of "Hooray, it is Friday and I am quite pleased about that."

Only, when you experience "Sex Shooter" you don't want to scream "YES I KNOW IT'S FUCKING FRIDAY, I'VE GOT A CALENDER YOU KNOW" - you just want to have a little dance and perhaps indulge in some sex shooting of your own. This is "funky house", you see.

You'll be pleased to learn that the video features women shooting each other with fluids, and then a pretty predictable bout of semi-clad cavorting around. Suddenly the term "funky house" has rather more bodily fragrance-related implications.

"Sex Shooter" is released as a single on 9th March. Prepare for the inevitable Daily Mail outrage by checking it out after the jump.

Posted by Stuart Waterman on February 27, 2025 10:45 AM in Pop Heaven / Pop Hell| Video
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The first thirty-two seconds of Cold War Kids' "I've Seen Enough" video are thoroughly adequate

The internet connection in our office is complete shit. If internet connections were measured in hundreds and thousands (or "sprinkles", if you're a foreign), our internet connection would currently be running at 3 hundreds and thousands.

When have you ever seen 3 hundreds and thousands? YOU HAVEN'T. It is very difficult to come by that few hundreds and thousands. And yet, were bandwidth measured in them, 3 is what we'd be dealing with over here.

All of which is a preamble to me telling you that I literally got bored waiting for Cold War Kids' new video, "I've Seen Enough", to load. I only got to see the first thirty-two seconds. That is not very fair on Cold War Kids, who I am keen to give another chance after the disappointment of their second album Loyalty To Loyalty. Indeed (snigger) you could say (chuckle) I have definitely NOT seen enough! LMFAOROFLALAOLAOLAOL!

To compensate for not watching the whole clip, allow me to assure you - and Cold War Kids - that when it comes to the first thirty-two seconds of music videos, "I've Seen Enough" is thoroughly adequate.

Posted by Stuart Waterman on February 26, 2025 11:10 AM in Music News| Video
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Alice In Chains to join Metallica, Linkin Park at Sonisphere Festival. In other news, Alice In Chains still exist

Grunge forgotabouts Alice In Chains, keen not to let a pesky thing like the death of their lead singer Layne Staley intrude on their rocking, will visit the UK this summer to play the Sonisphere Festival at Knebworth House.

Sonispshere Festival hits the UK on 1st and 2nd August, after touring Europe throughout the summer. It will be Alice In Chains' only UK show in 2009 and comes as they prepare their first album in thirteen years.

Posted by Stuart Waterman on February 24, 2025 11:20 AM in Festival News| I Thought You Were Dead!| Music News
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The Beatles' Abbey Road album cover recreated many, many times in time-lapse video

Gaaah, tourists! Rucksacks! Walking down the middle of the station platform at 2 metres an hour! Cagoules! Gaaah! Etcetera!

Blame Ringo are a band who have, for their new single "Garble Arch", created a clever time-lapse video of tourists re-enacting The Beatles' famous Abbey Road album cover zillions of times over the course of a day.

Ahhh, tourists. You know you'd do it too.

Posted by Stuart Waterman on February 23, 2025 11:55 AM in Forwarding Fodder| Video
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Santana's "Samba Pa Ti" as played by a 7-year old child who doesn't need to look at the strings or anything

The number of child musical genius videos on the internet is fast approaching the number of cats falling asleep videos on the internet. If there are loads of them does that mean they're not geniuses after all? Does it just mean all the other kids are really stupid?

I was one of the stupid kids, as evidenced by the fact that I can be impressed this Argentinian kid can play so well without looking at the strings.

This version of that song used in the "this is M&S; food" Marks And Spencer ads is a year and a half old now, so I suppose I can always hope that having reached almost double figures little Lucciano Pizzichini is now a smacked-out wreck.

Posted by Stuart Waterman on February 23, 2025 11:10 AM in Forwarding Fodder| Video
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Pet Shop Boys' "Love etc." is all about love, etc.

The material from the forthcoming Pet Shop Boys album Yes has been receiving feverish write-ups from Popjustice for a while now. Now us normals can here first single "Love etc" as well, alongside its spanking new animated video.

"Love Etc." is one of those songs that tells you stuff like "too much of everything is never enough", which is a theory with a ring of profundity until you realise it's one that can only ever be proved/disproved by gazillionaires.

So yes, the thrust of the song is that you don't need this and that, you need love. Which is clearly nonsense, but let's not allow this to distract from the fact that this is a great pop song and more or less exactly what you'd hope for from Pet Shop Boys' return. See the vid after the jump.

Posted by Stuart Waterman on February 23, 2025 10:40 AM in I Thought You Were Dead!| Pop Heaven / Pop Hell| Video
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