“Q” Bombs: September 4, 2011

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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Although cosmic forces mentally smacked me around again by having “Dirt Road Anthem” rebound to return as the #1 video on the CMT Top 20 Video Countdown Homeboy, for an eighth week, I am happy to report that with “Homeboy” by Eric Church falling off of the countdown, I found it difficult to replace it on the “Q”bomb list. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t a lot of bad videos and songs out there, they just appear to be more of a mediocre variety. Of course, that’s a whole different issue.

Worst Videos for the week of September 4 , 2011

1. Skyscraper—Demi Lovato
2. Dirt Road Anthem—Jason Aldean
3. I Love You This Big-Scott McCreery
4. If I Die Young-The Band Perry
5. Not Over You—Gavin DeGraw
6. Remind Me—Brad Paisley with Carrie Underwood
7. Country Girl (Shake It for Me)-Luke Bryan
8. Good Life-One Republic
9. You and I-Lady Gaga
10. Stereo Hearts-Gym Class Heroes with Adam Levine

1. “Skyscraper”—Welcome to the top of the trash heap! This video hit #1 on The VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown this week so it gets top “Q” Bomb honors. I saw Demi do a live version of this song this week and it wasn’t any better.
2. “Dirt Road Anthem”—#1 on The CMT Top 20 Video Countdown…..AGAIN!!!!! I never thought I would have to resort to this but….DOUBLE INFINITY ODWITS!!!!!!!!!
3. “I Love You This Big”—Yay! It dropped a notch this week! Honestly, couldn’t anybody else beat this guy on American Idol!!????
4. “If I Die Young”–The only reason this video isn’t ahead of Scott McCreery’s is because no matter how much I don’t like the song or the video, I have to admit that Kimberly Perry is pretty easy on the eyes. But didn’t she used to be Meg Ryan?
5. “Not Over You”—Not going any higher yet. I’ll take that as a good sign.
6. “Remind Me”—Same thing. Holding steady is a good thing.
7. “Country Girl (Shake It for Me)—Still hanging in the Top 10. I still can’t believe that people like this atrocious video and song. It has zero sex appeal and the fake documentary style can’t give it any appearance of substance.
8. “Good Life”—Still falling! Maybe it is a “good life.”
9. “You and I”—I’m still not sure about this one. I can tell you that the song hasn’t hooked me yet.
10. “Stereo Hearts”—A tough choice for this list. That can change.

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