Music Buzz It’s Yom Kippur, and many of us have the day off from work. You could spend the day atoning. Or you could check out some of best and least-MTV friendly music videos to come out over the last couple years.
As promised, BuzzFeed's own Jack Shepherd modeled the Happy/Sad Reversible Sweatshirt, thanks to the generous donors to the Humiliate Jack Fund. Please enjoy. (Music: “Higher Than The Stars,” by The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart.)
Music Buzz We've always found Shakira odd, with the belly dancing and Kermit-with-a-frog-in-his-throat vocal quality, but her new video for “She Wolf” makes her the official mayor of Crazytown. If doing The Lawn Mower inside a giant vagina, wearing Lady GaGa's rejects, and writhing in a cage, Dirrty-style, is what it's like on Shakira's planet, then we're going to start checking rates for spaceship rentals.
For their music video “Five (Oh),” Canadian rockers Boo Hoo enlisted the help of two adorable little rascals to smoke, drink, and steal the darndest things. If this is just one afternoon, imagine how many villages get raped and pillaged come Halloween! Lock up your valuables! (And…yogurt raisins?)
Here's a fairly catchy, somewhat techno-y remix of “This Must Be The Place” set to a reenactment of American Psycho. Lydia Hearst is also involved which is weird, but I don't know, the whole thing kind of grows on you.
Japanese band SOUR's music video for “Hibi no Neiro” (Tone of Everyday) features synchronized moves from real fan webcams across the globe. Can't help but feel extra warm inside about this one — song's not bad either.
Celebrity Buzz Not that you didn't know MJ had a wide variety of famous friends, but he literally knew everybody moderately famous in 1989 and included them in this video for “Liberian Girl,” from Debbie Gibson to Sherman Hemsley to - YES! - Jasmine Guy! So much of this makes so little sense: Who is Malcolm-Jamal Warner talking to? Why is Steven Spielberg so pissed? WHO INVITED RICHARD DREYFUSS??? (via Late Night)
Along with her Whip It! costar Alia Shawkat (Maeby from Arrested Development) and Har Mar Superstar, Ellen Page makes a video for Journey's hit “Don't Stop Believin'.” [Ed: This is weird and yet charming. And Har Mar Superstar actually has a pretty good voice.]
After hateful people like Scott posted an unfinished leak last week, we're finally given access to Kanye's full artistic vision. It's still basically Rihanna dancing around in scantily clad outfits, but the fancy effects make it less like porn.
TV Buzz MTV's newest cartoon is an homage to the music video-mocking idiots Beavis and Butthead, but without the music videos. Instead, cubicle dwellers DJ & The Fro commentate on the latest viral videos. In my eyes only The Soup can discuss Keyboard Cat and the like, but with all these new web-based shows, only time will tell.
Why be like Asher Roth and love college when there's a deli on every block? “Smoke my meat and hang my cheese…”
Dee D. Jackson's 1978 ode to robot-human lovelust will never get tired. If that robot can move like that on the dance floor, imagine what he must be like in the bedroom! (Answer: clunky and awkward.)
Neil Young's latest music video addresses the financial crisis head-on. That is exactly how I read my WSJ everyday. Uncanny.
The Norwegian electronic music duo, Röyksopp, released this geeky music video featuring some awesome real-life Space Invaders. It's the official video for the first single, Happy Up Here, from their upcoming album, Junior.
Music Buzz There are only two rules: you get one day and $99 to create a music video. Featuring the newest music from unsigned and indie bands, $99 Music Videos is sponsored by Next New Networks and Verizon FiOS and will feature a new clip a week.
Chairlift's music video for Evident Utensil looks like a tripped out, badly encoded walk through the countryside. It was made through a process called datamoshing, which more or less uses corrupted video artifacts and takes advantage of the poor little confused pixels as they try to make up for a handful of lost keyframes. I think. Either way it's weird, man.
I'd never heard this song before, but the look of this video is stunning. Really captures the performance — it's just Jones and some dudes in a New York hotel room, making music.
This video is strange and funny and you should watch it. It's not brand new — it's the video for a “song” from Dan Deacon's 2003 album Meetle Mice — but has had a resurgence of popularity for reasons that are too murky to be clear.
A supremely weird new video from the Gallagher Bros. that splices footage of fake British royalty with, well, real royals. You don't have to be British to be confused, apparently.
Videogum highlights the oeuvre of Florida singer/songwriter Mark Gormley, whose unique combo of sailing vocals and blank stare will chill/thrill you. Cable access, thank you and please never go away.
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