A “Q”bomb, like an “H” bomb, will be my term for a music video that I consider to be subpar in music, video, or both. This will be a recurring weekly list that will focus on the worst videos that are currently on TV. I don’t, as a rule, go searching for old music videos, so that’s why it will focus on solely on current or recent videos.
I hate to be so negative about music, but when an artist takes a “bad” song and then brings more attention to it by creating a “bad” video to support it, it will appear on this list. I honestly hope, and it could happen, that this list will be less than 10 items, but I have serious doubts that that possibility will happen. We are, after all, talking about an industry that uses art for huge profits. The companies can’t help themselves.
However, at this point, I will not do a 10 worst music list. I see absolutely no reason to waste time reemphasizing bad music. Once is enough.
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Well, it appears that an unexpected wave of “good taste” seems to have invaded both CMT and VH1’s video countdowns by not voting in Blake Shelton’s “Footloose” or Beyonce’s “Countdown.” But it appears that good sense didn’t last long because “Remind Me” moved back to the top……………………..
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Worst Videos for the week of October 23, 2011
1. Remind Me—Brad Paisley with Carrie Underwood
2. Dirt Road Anthem—Jason Aldean
3. Not Over You—Gavin DeGraw
4. God Gave Me You–Blake Shelton
5. I Love You This Big–Scotty McCreery
6. Skyscraper—Demi Lovato
7. Pumped Up Kicks—Foster the People
8. Moves Like Jagger–Maroon 5 with Chritina Aguilera
9. Poison and Wine—The Civil Wars
10. Like My Mother Does—Lauren Alaina
1) “Remind Me” —This song jumped back on top of the CMT Top 20 Countdown. Can anyone “remind me” why it should be #1? I’ll skip the juvenile comment that it’s more like #2. (Uh, OK. I guess I didn’t.) Brad Paisley told CMT Insider that he asked Sheryl Crow to record the demo of the song. Well, if she sang it, at least the song would be better. But if it’s the same video, just with her, it would pretty much be the same result…
ODWITS!
2) “Dirt Road Anthem”—Two videos in the same countdown, and this one can’t get knocked off! DOUBLE ODWITS!!
3) “Not Over You”—Still hanging on just below the Top 10 on the VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown! TRIPLE ODWITS!!!
4) “God Gave Me You”—He couldn’t have possibly given us this video……………
5) “I Love You This Big”—Scotty actually has a decent song, “The Trouble With Girls” for the follow up to this one. I can’t wait until it knocks this one off……………….
6) “Skyscraper”—The longest fall from a skyscraper. Ever………………………….
7) “Pumped Up Kicks”—The kicks are finally starting to end for this song………….
8) “Moves Like Jagger”—Almost off the countdown. I’ll go easy this week………
9) “Poison and Wine”—There is NO WAY that this song could’ve taken five minutes to write. The double whammy of this song is that it never appeared on the CMT countdown. I have to be subjected to it on the VH1 countdown!
10) “Like My Mother Does”—This one actually isn’t that irritating to me. My only complaint is that they are packaging her as if she’s Carrie Underwood……….Jr………..
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