![]() The Avalanches, “Frontier Psychiatrist” (dir. Landing somewhere between Lost Highway and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, “Pyramids” is a dusty, neon-drenched vision quest that’s hard to shake. Opening with color bars, liquor shots, and gun blasts, this Nabil-directed 8-minute odyssey follows a zonked-out Frank Ocean as he zips across the desert on a motorcycle, giggles his way through a strip club, and runs into John Mayer in the middle of nowhere for a woozy, bluesy guitar solo. It all starts here: Director Sam Brown capturing the once-in-a-generation vocalist at simultaneously her most vulnerable and her most powerful, unclear if the wreckage surrounding her is representative of her internal turmoil, or a direct result of it. The room full of glasses of water gently quaking to the bass drum heartbeat of “Rolling in the Deep,” like Jurassic Park to the tenth power, was appropriately foreboding for what Adele’s 21 ended up being, a commercial behemoth the likes of which was supposed to have long gone extinct. The smartly staged and creatively choreographed one-take clip is as unpolished, campy, and full of energy as the Scissors themselves. Vern Moen, 2012)Īna Matronic, Jake Shears, and the rest of the crew served up a brilliant DIY instructional dance video for their unlikely viral hit, which became their third No. Scissor Sisters, “Let’s Have a Kiki” (dir. The minimalist production, which memorably featured Shakira dancing alone without props, musicians or other dancers, was enough to catapult her to international stardom. The video for Shakira’s first English-language hit is not her most seen those honor belong to the Maluma-featuring “Chantaje” and World Cup anthem “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa),” both with around two billion YouTube views. But “Whenever, Wherever” was the video that introduced Shakira’s swiveling hips to the world, as well as her “small and humble” breasts. His love interest’s shotgun-wielding father doesn’t approve, but in the end, let’s just say he’s behooved to sympathize. ![]() Our small town teenaged protagonist is a sort of Napoleon Dynamite with - get this! - deer-like antlers, an effective stand-in for just about any condition that could have left a young Fall Out Boy feeling socially alienated. Me in public | My headphones Under the Cork Tree’s lead single was much of the world’s introduction to these former hardcore punks from the Chicago burbs, and for their first video with a big ol’ Island Records budget, they indulged their mission statement: a full-on underdog’s folk tale. Me in public My headphones □ /ko5gHHEquM We all need some bops in our headphones right now. ![]() The My Headphones meme has gotten super popular and I gotta say, I really hope someone makes a Spotify playlist with all these jams. Maybe he has more of a sense of humor than his expression implies. aïja AugI don’t know how he feels about it, but he did retweet this: Jui mort c’est devenu un meme international That man is actually a famous French rapper named Jnr Slice whose fans have found him becoming a meme pretty hilarious: They’re mostly cheerful, kitschy, or love songs, at odds with the man’s hard exterior. That picture is labeled “me in public.” Then, on the right, there’s s a screenshot of a song labeled “my headphones” representing what they’re really listening to. On the left is a picture of a man with earbuds in, looking extremely serious. It also largely relies on visual imagery. I appreciate that because obviously none of us are fine, why even ask? ![]() The new version pretty much skips over anyone asking how you’re doing, getting straight to what’s in your headphones. Complex reports that it’s a revamp of a meme from 2019, that went something like this: someone asks if you’re okay, you say “fine” and in your headphones your true feelings are revealed by the song you’re listening to: If you’ve been looking for new music, this “my headphones” meme is the one for you.
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