Phil’s Faves: Videos, May 13, 2012

This will be a personal weekly Top Ten list of what I consider to be the best videos currently available on TV. I don’t, as a rule, go searching for old music videos, so that’s why it will focus mostly on current or recent videos. For this category, I am also going to include any live performances on talk or variety shows that I see during the week.

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The banjo makes its triumphant return to the top! There are new videos about phone numbers and trucks! It’s a good, happy list!
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Top 10 Videos and Performances for the week of May 13, 2012

1. Banjo—Rascal Flatts
2. Lights—Ellie Goulding
3. Sweeter—Gavin DeGraw
4. Over You—Miranda Lambert
5. Good Girl—Carrie Underwood
6. Somethin’ ‘Bout a Truck—Kip Moore
7. I Won’t Give Up—Jason Mraz on Jimmy Kimmel Live
8. Call Me Maybe—Carly Rae Jepsen
9. Dancin’ Away With My Heart—Lady Antebellum
10. Lovin’ You Is Fun—Easton Corbin

1) “Banjo”—All of a sudden, I started seeing this one a lot again! I have yet to get tired of seeing all of the hokey overexaggeration for the banjo! Or is it hokey?????
2) “Lights”—After several return weeks on the VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown where they only showed a snippet, this one is back with full showings—and moving up again! I never would have thought that!
3) “Sweeter”—I don’t know. I guess I like the sleazy quality of the video, too!
4) “Over You”—Still good, but I’m seeing “Banjo” more often than this Miranda Lambert video, so I was distracted and this one fell.
5) “Good Girl”Carrie Underwood is still good enough to stay on the list!
6) “Somethin’ ‘Bout a Truck”—Alright. This is how you make a mindless country video. You have a pretty woman bopping around during the whole song showing interest in the singer. It’s cute and enjoyable to watch! This is so much better than the pseudo melodrama in the recent Luke Bryan videos!
7) “I Won’t Give Up”—A very touching and sincere live performance by Jason Mraz!
8) “Call Me Maybe”—A former Canadian Idol contestant, Carly Rae Jepsen, comes out with a video that cuts across all demographics! And the ending has an unexpected twist! How can you NOT like this video??!!
9) “Dancin’ Away With My Heart”Lady A keeps on dancin’ for another week………
10) “Lovin’ You Is Fun”—Same analysis as “Somethin’ ‘Bout a Truck!” QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ

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