Video Reviews for Week of December 1st
Video Reviews for Week of December 1st
By C. Duke
Megan Nicole – FUN (YouTube Music Awards): In 2009, Megan Nicole uploaded her first cover song video to YouTube, the first in a succession of many. Overtime, she became a YouTube sensation and released her first original song, B-e-a-utiful, July 15, 2011.
Megan has recently come out with her first five song EP, Escape, released October 14, 2014 and premiered her first track and video from it, Electrified, in September of 2014.
Fun, the second track and video on the EP was shot for the 2015 YouTube Music Awards and also featured as a YouTube music Moment.
We start with Megan looking no more than 17, in a bright, blue, flowery bedroom, typing on her website. While waiting for a response she holds up a tutu to her waist, sprays some perfume on herself and plays her guitar on the bed. She checks her website for any response to her post, finds one and holds her hands up with fingers crossed as the walls fall away and the music starts.
Now standing in front of the bed in a city street she heads toward the bedroom door and as she exits, marvels over the new outfit that she’s suddenly in and heads through the city streets with friends in tow.
Singing of having fun and having no time for attitudes or for haters, Megan goes on to a photo shoot, being filmed with friends in a car, walking down the red, or is that pink, carpet, greeting her fans and on to a stage show at a venue where she performs out the rest of the video.
Beyoncė - 7/11: In this video, Beyoncė, sings about what she’s doing, dance step wise, as she performs them for the camera…in her underwear.
After pressing record for the camera, Beyoncė, wearing a Kale sweatshirt, underwear and knee pads, backs up on a long balcony
and starts dancing as she moves forward, toward the camera, to lyrics such as, “Wave your hands side to side, put it in the air/Wave your hands side to side, put it in the air/Clap, clap, clap like you don’t care/Smack that, clap, clap, clap like you don’t care/(I know you care).
Next shot is in the bathroom and has her flexing your glutenous maximums as she sits with her back toward us and then, dancing in front of a giant hotel bed. If you look closely, you’ll see her daughter, Blue Ivy, lying in the bed in a billowy comforter for a split second. The video’s Easter egg.
Close to a minute and a half into the video, Beyoncė is joined by two girls in the hotel hallway as they hold red cups when she references, “Hold that cup like alcohol”. The two are in their underwear and they turn into a troupe of girls that are with her for the remainder of the video.
The girls join her on the balcony, a gambling session of dice (7/11), a bathroom shot of a human pyramid, Beyoncė jumping over her leg and falling and giving herself a blowout, to girls dancing in front of a Christmas tree and popping up out of gift wrapped packages. Also, we have Beyoncė dialing her foot phone and some kitchen hang out drinking.
We then have a break in the music which has Beyoncė singing, chant style, about dashiki, Nefertiti and sweatin’ out a blow out but, still being “fresher than you” while she spins with camera in hand and wearing an upside down embellished visor hat. Fade out…
7/11 was filmed in low fidelity and is one of two new songs (the other, Ring Off) from her new platinum edition box set of her previously released album, Beyoncė. The box set has been out since November, 24th and features the original CD, a Live DVD, original DVD and a “More” CD that has the two new singles, four unreleased remixes with collaborations from Nicki Minaj, Mr. Vegas, Kanye West and Pharrell Williams.
Sia – Chandelier (Official Video): Australian singer/songwriter Sia, originally penned this song with Rihanna or Beyoncė in mind but,
instead, kept it for herself. It is the first single from Sia’s sixth album, 1000 Forms of Fear, and was released March, 17th, 2014.
This video features a sparsely furnished, decrepit apartment and a lone girl, Maddie Ziegler, dressed in a nude leotard and blond wig (cut to mimic Sia’s haircut), artistically performing a choreographed routine around the abode as Sia sings the woes of an alcoholic party girl. The fun and joy and the aftermath of her reckless drinking behavior.
“1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, drink/Throw ‘em back ‘til I lose count/I’m gonna swing from the chandelier, from the chandelier” she sings about the heedless abandon of her party girl. Then on to the shame, “Sun is up, I’m a mess/Gotta get out now, gotta run from this/Here comes the shame, here comes the shame.
You know you’ve been there.
Meghan Trainor – Lips Are Movin: All About That Bass, singer, songwriter and producer, Meghan Trainor has come out with another video from her album, Title (Deluxe Edition) debut, coming January 13, 2015. Currently she has an EP of the same name but, this song isn’t on it.
Trainor has done it again and with another colorful video to gawk at. Singing into a red spray painted microphone, Meghan states, “If your lips are moving, if your lips are moving/If your lips are moving, then you’re lyin’, lyin’, lyin’”. She catches her boyfriend, who is cheating on her in a lie and tells him, “Goodbye, bye, bye”.
Look for the “lips” couch and listen to the 50’s piano. A perfect blend of 50’s/early 60’s and modern music, Trainor, I predict, will have great success with her blended style.
GD X TAEYANG – Good Boy M/V: GD (G-Dragon) and Taeyang have teamed up once again to bring you our next music video, Good Boy.
G-Dragon is a South Korean singer/songwriter and producer who spent six years of tutelage under the record label and talent agency,
YG Entertainment based out of Seoul, Korea. His official debut was with YG Entertainment’s band, Big Bang.
Taeyang, also from South Korea, trained with YG Entertainment for six years as well and was also in Big Bang. This is how the two met and became friends.
Good Boy was shot for the 2015 YouTube Music Awards and also featured as a YouTube Music Moment and was published on YouTube, November 20, 2015.
Set to electronic dance music the video opens up to a pimped out Chevy driving up and parking in an empty warehouse type scene with the two in the front seat and some girls in the back seat.
They exit the vehicle and start walking toward their destination passing by people getting their hair cut and shaving words into it. They reach a door that leads into a black lit party. They start performing under a dome of triangle lights.
If you look up the lyrics and try to sing along and wonder why they don’t seem to rhyme when reading them, that’s because they are singing in KorEnglish. Some Korean, some English.
A good tune for the clubs and you just may walk away saying, “I am a good boy”, even if you’re a girl.
Shayna Leigh – Wake Me When It’s Christmas: If you’re into Christmas music, then this one’s for you.
Shayna Leigh is a singer/songwriter, Orlando grown and N.Y. City transplant, she debuted her first EP, The Cold Hard Truth and the Dream, in January of 2014 as a free download on Noisetrade.com
and her second EP, Hey Shayna Leigh, September 9th, 2014.
Although this song is not on any of the EPs, it is available on Amazon.com as a digital download.
Set in an apartment, the video flips back and forth between it and her singing against a back drop of stringed lights, Leigh sings of her, “little drummer boy” and missing him. So she decides she’s gonna “sleep through fall” until the day he arrives, Christmas Day, to which she commands, “wake me when it’s Christmas”.
But, first, we see her decorating her apartment for the holidays and grabbing her snowflake mug with candy cane handles, baking cookies and trying on different Christmas outfits.
We end with a happy ending, no, not that kind, as her boyfriend shows up at her door with a smile. - Read the full story at UnRatedMagazine.com
By C. Duke
Megan Nicole – FUN (YouTube Music Awards): In 2009, Megan Nicole uploaded her first cover song video to YouTube, the first in a succession of many. Overtime, she became a YouTube sensation and released her first original song, B-e-a-utiful, July 15, 2011.
Megan has recently come out with her first five song EP, Escape, released October 14, 2014 and premiered her first track and video from it, Electrified, in September of 2014.
Fun, the second track and video on the EP was shot for the 2015 YouTube Music Awards and also featured as a YouTube music Moment.
We start with Megan looking no more than 17, in a bright, blue, flowery bedroom, typing on her website. While waiting for a response she holds up a tutu to her waist, sprays some perfume on herself and plays her guitar on the bed. She checks her website for any response to her post, finds one and holds her hands up with fingers crossed as the walls fall away and the music starts.
Now standing in front of the bed in a city street she heads toward the bedroom door and as she exits, marvels over the new outfit that she’s suddenly in and heads through the city streets with friends in tow.
Singing of having fun and having no time for attitudes or for haters, Megan goes on to a photo shoot, being filmed with friends in a car, walking down the red, or is that pink, carpet, greeting her fans and on to a stage show at a venue where she performs out the rest of the video.
Beyoncė - 7/11: In this video, Beyoncė, sings about what she’s doing, dance step wise, as she performs them for the camera…in her underwear.
After pressing record for the camera, Beyoncė, wearing a Kale sweatshirt, underwear and knee pads, backs up on a long balcony
and starts dancing as she moves forward, toward the camera, to lyrics such as, “Wave your hands side to side, put it in the air/Wave your hands side to side, put it in the air/Clap, clap, clap like you don’t care/Smack that, clap, clap, clap like you don’t care/(I know you care).
Next shot is in the bathroom and has her flexing your glutenous maximums as she sits with her back toward us and then, dancing in front of a giant hotel bed. If you look closely, you’ll see her daughter, Blue Ivy, lying in the bed in a billowy comforter for a split second. The video’s Easter egg.
Close to a minute and a half into the video, Beyoncė is joined by two girls in the hotel hallway as they hold red cups when she references, “Hold that cup like alcohol”. The two are in their underwear and they turn into a troupe of girls that are with her for the remainder of the video.
The girls join her on the balcony, a gambling session of dice (7/11), a bathroom shot of a human pyramid, Beyoncė jumping over her leg and falling and giving herself a blowout, to girls dancing in front of a Christmas tree and popping up out of gift wrapped packages. Also, we have Beyoncė dialing her foot phone and some kitchen hang out drinking.
We then have a break in the music which has Beyoncė singing, chant style, about dashiki, Nefertiti and sweatin’ out a blow out but, still being “fresher than you” while she spins with camera in hand and wearing an upside down embellished visor hat. Fade out…
7/11 was filmed in low fidelity and is one of two new songs (the other, Ring Off) from her new platinum edition box set of her previously released album, Beyoncė. The box set has been out since November, 24th and features the original CD, a Live DVD, original DVD and a “More” CD that has the two new singles, four unreleased remixes with collaborations from Nicki Minaj, Mr. Vegas, Kanye West and Pharrell Williams.
Sia – Chandelier (Official Video): Australian singer/songwriter Sia, originally penned this song with Rihanna or Beyoncė in mind but,
instead, kept it for herself. It is the first single from Sia’s sixth album, 1000 Forms of Fear, and was released March, 17th, 2014.
This video features a sparsely furnished, decrepit apartment and a lone girl, Maddie Ziegler, dressed in a nude leotard and blond wig (cut to mimic Sia’s haircut), artistically performing a choreographed routine around the abode as Sia sings the woes of an alcoholic party girl. The fun and joy and the aftermath of her reckless drinking behavior.
“1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, drink/Throw ‘em back ‘til I lose count/I’m gonna swing from the chandelier, from the chandelier” she sings about the heedless abandon of her party girl. Then on to the shame, “Sun is up, I’m a mess/Gotta get out now, gotta run from this/Here comes the shame, here comes the shame.
You know you’ve been there.
Trainor has done it again and with another colorful video to gawk at. Singing into a red spray painted microphone, Meghan states, “If your lips are moving, if your lips are moving/If your lips are moving, then you’re lyin’, lyin’, lyin’”. She catches her boyfriend, who is cheating on her in a lie and tells him, “Goodbye, bye, bye”.
Look for the “lips” couch and listen to the 50’s piano. A perfect blend of 50’s/early 60’s and modern music, Trainor, I predict, will have great success with her blended style.
GD X TAEYANG – Good Boy M/V: GD (G-Dragon) and Taeyang have teamed up once again to bring you our next music video, Good Boy.
G-Dragon is a South Korean singer/songwriter and producer who spent six years of tutelage under the record label and talent agency,
YG Entertainment based out of Seoul, Korea. His official debut was with YG Entertainment’s band, Big Bang.
Taeyang, also from South Korea, trained with YG Entertainment for six years as well and was also in Big Bang. This is how the two met and became friends.
Good Boy was shot for the 2015 YouTube Music Awards and also featured as a YouTube Music Moment and was published on YouTube, November 20, 2015.
Set to electronic dance music the video opens up to a pimped out Chevy driving up and parking in an empty warehouse type scene with the two in the front seat and some girls in the back seat.
They exit the vehicle and start walking toward their destination passing by people getting their hair cut and shaving words into it. They reach a door that leads into a black lit party. They start performing under a dome of triangle lights.
If you look up the lyrics and try to sing along and wonder why they don’t seem to rhyme when reading them, that’s because they are singing in KorEnglish. Some Korean, some English.
A good tune for the clubs and you just may walk away saying, “I am a good boy”, even if you’re a girl.
Shayna Leigh – Wake Me When It’s Christmas: If you’re into Christmas music, then this one’s for you.
Shayna Leigh is a singer/songwriter, Orlando grown and N.Y. City transplant, she debuted her first EP, The Cold Hard Truth and the Dream, in January of 2014 as a free download on Noisetrade.com
and her second EP, Hey Shayna Leigh, September 9th, 2014.
Although this song is not on any of the EPs, it is available on Amazon.com as a digital download.
Set in an apartment, the video flips back and forth between it and her singing against a back drop of stringed lights, Leigh sings of her, “little drummer boy” and missing him. So she decides she’s gonna “sleep through fall” until the day he arrives, Christmas Day, to which she commands, “wake me when it’s Christmas”.
But, first, we see her decorating her apartment for the holidays and grabbing her snowflake mug with candy cane handles, baking cookies and trying on different Christmas outfits.
We end with a happy ending, no, not that kind, as her boyfriend shows up at her door with a smile. - Read the full story at UnRatedMagazine.com
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