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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A phone knocks the banjo from the top spot and a couple of really good live performances are highlights on this week’s list!
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Top 10 Videos and Performances for the week of May 27, 2012
1. Call Me Maybe—Carly Rae Jepsen
2. Banjo—Rascal Flatts
3. Lights—Ellie Goulding
4. Lovin’ You Is Fun—Easton Corbin
5. Sweeter—Gavin DeGraw
6. Good Girl—Carrie Underwood
7. Somethin’ ‘Bout a Truck—Kip Moore
8. Starships—Nicki Minaj
9. Low Hanging Fruit—Tenacious D on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
10. Nomad—Carlos Santana on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1) “Call Me Maybe”—A well deserved rise to the top for Carly Rae Jepsen! I really like this homemade looking video and it makes me laugh every time the look one of her band members has on his face when he receives the neighbor’s phone number!
2) “Banjo”—Rascal Flatts moved up again after falling on CMT’s countdown! That means the banjo season may continue longer than expected!
3) “Lights”—Ellie Goulding continues to hang on and move up on VH1!
4) “Lovin’ You Is Fun”—I like this video better than the Kip Moore one! It seems more playful!
5) “Sweeter”—Still good, but turning sour now………………………
6) “Good Girl”—Even though I’ve watched this video a number of times and I was ready to let it drop off, I actually played closer attention the last time I saw it and I picked up a few things I hadn’t noticed before. For example, I like the mirror angle of Carrie Underwood’s good girl/bad girl profile!
7) “Somethin’ ‘Bout a Truck”—I still like Kip Moore’s video, but I like the other videos more………………
8) “Starships”—Nicky Minaj alternates between looking hot and bad in the scenes in this video. I’m not sure what to make of that. But I really like what I’m guessing is the beautiful Hawaiian scenery as the backdrop for the video!
9) “Low Hanging Fruit”—I’m not normally a fan of Tenacious D (Jack Black and Kyle Gass). I haven’t really found their songs to be all that funny even though Jack Black usually makes me laugh in even his worst movies, and I will watch “School of Rock” every time I run across it on TV! This live performance of a song chock full of double entendres that ended with a choreographed guitar army was flat out hilarious!
10) “Nomad”—Carlos Santana began promoting his new “Shape Shifter” album by performing this blistering instrumental taken from it on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno! He continues to be incredible!
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