Mar 8

Mar 8 Weekly Track Roundup 3/7/23: Music Videos

While you’re home for Spring Break, sit back and grab some popcorn (or a massive bucket of pretzels, or w/e you have on hand). We’re covering some short-form A/V excursions!

Odd Future (Hodgy, Domo Genesis and Tyler, The Creator) - “Rella”

It's Tyler The Creator as a centaur wearing a wig and snorting a pound of cocaine. I don't know what else to tell you.
-Emmett Favreau

Björk - “Venus As a Boy”

When watching this, I’m immediately transported to the world of Björk. The music video is simple and takes place in one setting: a kitchen. However, it being in one setting creates a sense of isolation. The viewer is only focused on Björk, eggs, and random iguana for some reason. The color way is absolutely breathtaking making everything in the video have a sort of vibrant beauty. Furthermore, the lights in the video reflect on some kind of filter making it sparkly and iridescent. This video is a dreamscape with hints of childlike folly and ardor. also, i fried an egg after watching this for the first time in high school and wore my hair in bantu knots for weeks #björknation
-Cecilia Dondorful-Amos

Justin Bieber - “Yummy”

I know this is a controversial choice, but the Yummy music video is one of the greatest music videos in history. It's iconic, creating its own aesthetic of pastels and meticulously plated food. There's serenity and beauty that clashes with the disgusting 1950's food staples suspended in gelatin. I think that critics genuinely do not understand Yummy; it's a celebration of all pleasures of the senses in a way of acknowledging what is unpleasurable. The aesthetics are satirical and each quick camera rotation cut revolves the viewer around the scene like the teacups at Disneyworld. In an era where the charts are dominated with songs that brag about how good of sex they can/are having, music videos have begun contesting with each other with how much of a spectacle one can make of sexuality without engaging in the act on camera. While Yummy as a song contains the same subject matter, the music video refreshes the viewer by using the most modest, humorous, and slightly gross way to allude to tantalization.
-Alexandra Taylor

Hayley Kiyoko - “Girls Like Girls”

My bisexual awakening -- it will always have a place in my heart.
-Maisie Wrubel

Blur - “Girls And Boys”

It's simple, it's fun, it fully commits to the use of a green screen - this video is an absolute classic in my mind.
-Beatrix Briggs

Lana Del Rey - “Venice Bitch”

the aesthetics of a century ago as captured a decade ago as emulated four years ago. idyllic and ever-expanding
-Cassandra Weigle

Weval - “Someday”

chronicling Patterns and Iterations that we create in the world as if it were an unspoken language, then tying it back to the patterns in nature from which we came. Visual Overload in absolute peak form
-Max Levin

JPEGMAFIA - “Baby I’m Bleeding”

I knew I had to pick a JPEGMAFIA video, and although I considered a few others, this one stuck out to me as my favorite. The editing is absurd and flashy, so I guess I should give a seizure warning for that. But everything from the setting in a random Baltimore warehouse, the performance, the editing sticks out as not only really interesting but strongly of JPEG himself.
-Lily Lazar

Underscores - “Heck”

Sick song, super sick music video. Love the art style of it. The world needs more animated music videos.
-Elijah Davis