There were too many good music videos this week. Moby escaped the usual Wayne Coyne acid-reflux and made something fun and pretty and way friendlier than most of Coyne's recent fare. TV On The Radio turned a meteor into a sympathetic character. They Might Be Giants taught pieces of broccoli how to play air guitar. Empire Of The Sun made their glam-alien schtick way more human and pathetic and interesting. I enjoyed all those videos enormously. I just enjoyed the videos below more.
5. Katy Perry - "Roar" (Dir. Grady Hall & Mark Kudsi)
If only the ending to Lost had been this satisfying. (I'm worried, however, that I'm getting an inaccurate image of Nokia smartphones' durability and battery life.)
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4. Team Spirit - "Phenomenon" (Dir. HannesJohannes)
An epic saga concludes with the sight of a dicknosed Nazi lady being sucked down a portal to hell, after the guy from the '80s Big Mac commercials shoots Hitler's brain through the back of its skull. So yeah, they stuck the landing.
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3. Sleigh Bells - "Bitter Rivals" (Dir. Sleigh Bells)
Alexis Krauss is such a vivid, charismatic presence that she doesn't need the little dancing kid or the backup chicks who do the synchronized Kool-Aid wig-flips. But she has them anyway. Take notes.
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2. G-Dragon - "Coup D'Etat" (Dir. Suh Hyun Seung)
K-pop boy genius comes gunning for Nicki Minaj's "evolutionary Missy Elliott" crown, gets beat from Diplo and Baauer, makes four-minute Jodorowsky movie. And it's still not the week's best movie, because amazing things happen all the time.
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1. Dizzee Rascal - "I Don't Need A Reason" (Dir. Emile Sornin)
It's been a week, and my brain has still not recovered. Help.
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