This Week’s Video Reviews - 5th Week of October 2014

This Week’s Video for the 5th Week of October (Happy Halloween)
Reviews By C. Duke

Gwen Stefani: Baby Don’t Lie

Starting out in black and white this video quickly turns to color when Gwen gets swept away by a word tornado that leaves her lying on a yellow brick road. Singing as she walks down the road the geometric mountainous landscape on either side continuously morphs with black and white striped, checkered and houndstooth patterns.

Dancers start emerging around her as she walks and the video just gets more bizarre when three creatures representing, Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion in some weird form, get swiped off her phone screen and appear besides her dancing.

Toward the end there is a short focus on Gwen and her dancers’ kicks as they walk/dance down the head light lit alley at which point everything reverses into a time-lapsed trip back to the beginning of the video, only the black and white portion is now in color.

This video is pretty trippy and full of effects and what the Wizard of Oz reference is…your guess is as good as mine.

2Cellos: The Trooper Overture {Official Video}

This one starts off when two geeky looking cello case carrying fellows come across a street wall with posters with the question, “Want to Be a Rock Star?” and the date and time to show their stuff. The background picture on the poster has a guitar player on his back crowd surfing as he plays guitar.
We then zoom into the poster and into a club where our two geeks are. Dressed in black with leather jackets they come up on stage with their cellos amidst boos and hisses from the crowd. But, once they get going on their feverish playing, they win the crowd over to cheers, showing that classical can be just as rock as rock itself and yes you can play lead guitar on a cello and crowd surf on your back as you do it.

The camera then zooms back out of the poster to the pair still staring at it, one with mouth agape, and then they walk off.

An enjoyable must see video showing you that classical music doesn’t have to be boring. These guys are amazing.

Sister Cristina: Like a Virgin 

Uhm…okay, I’ll just say it. This video is just so wrong. A nun singing Madonna’s “Like a Virgin”?! Yeah, okay, she does a nice mellow rendition and has a pleasant voice but, it seems to me she’s trying to change the meaning of the lyrics to mean a personal message to God. “Like a virgin, touched for the very first time……you’re so fine and your mine….”. No, no, no, no, no, no. This is not a holy song, far from it. What is going through her brain?

I don’t know why this is so hot on Facebook and Youtube right now except, that it’s a novelty to see a nun singing something so contrary. What’s she gonna sing next, “Obsession” by Animotion?
Anyway, this video is filmed in black and white with scenery of Italy, I believe and Sister Cristina with outstretched hands.

 

From the upcoming album “The London Sessions” (out December 3rd) this tune has a hypnotic, atmospheric, club sound to it. Simple footage of Mary singing in the street and of her riding back seat on her way to a club performance, she sings about taking her love back after being done wrong.

Kick him to the curb Ms. Blige.

Kiesza: Hideaway

Wearing high top skinny jeans, suspenders, a halter bra and red sneakers, red headed Kiesza gets out of a taxi and enacts some ballet moves as she sings. This is a continuous shot of street dancing up a city block picking up dancers as she goes.

“You’re just a hideaway, you’re just a feeling/You let my heart escape beyond the meaning”, she says in part of a verse. An upbeat club tune that will have you oohing and aahing along with the chorus.
When she’s done with the song and dance, she hails the cab back down and gets back in. This video makes me think of the 80’s.

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