8.12.14: The Last VJ’s Top 5 Music Videos of the Week
Welcome to The Last VJ, music fans! This week I found a unicorn, and by that I mean a mainstream artist who made a music video that doesn’t suck. Such things are few and far between. Also, Pink Floyd has started putting up their old promo videos on YouTube, and I meet an absolutely insane chick that will charm the pants off you then probably superglue your genitals to your leg. Let’s watch things get weird, now.
Hustle and Drone, “The Glow”
In general I am a big fan of music videos having something like a plot. Some sort of narrative at least. “The Glow” doesn’t have that, but it does have some truly entertaining moments.
Hustle and Drone play in an empty basketball arena, their performance intercut with footage of themselves and other actors all throwing up blood and spitting it at each other. Meanwhile, various luchadores hold a slam dunk contest over the heads of the band.
Oh, and someone also starts throwing up quarters.
Directors Joe Linton and Casey Warren aren’t exactly telling a story here, but their execution is extremely admirable. Part of me wishes I understand what meaning there is at all in the metaphor of blood vomiting onto someone else’s face, but I can at least enjoy masked wrestlers and their sick hoop moves.
