“Q” Bombs: October 16, 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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Plenty of videos dropped off this week, so there were quite a few openings. Surprisingly, this is the second week in a row of a “double diss.” This time it’s Blake Shelton. Sorry Blake, but there’s no “Honey Bee” in your two latest videos……………….

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Worst Videos for the week of October 16, 2011

1. Pumped Up Kicks—Foster the People
2. Remind Me—Brad Paisley with Carrie Underwood
3. Moves Like Jagger–Maroon 5 with Chritina Aguilera
4. Dirt Road Anthem—Jason Aldean
5. I Love You This Big–Scotty McCreery
6. Skyscraper—Demi Lovato
7. Countdown–Beyonce
8. God Gave Me You–Blake Shelton
9. Footloose–Blake Shelton
10. Not Over You—Gavin DeGraw

1) “Pumped Up Kicks”—I’m keeping this one at the top for another week to make up for lost time when it should have been at the top of the trash heap.
2) “Remind Me” —It finally drops to Number 2 (appropriate for this song), on the CMT Top 20 Countdown. Hopefully, the beginning of the end has started…………….
3) “Moves Like Jagger”—If you can’t sing or hum a song it’s kind of a waste of time. This one is really getting annoying..…
4) “Dirt Road Anthem”—Still hanging on better than it should.
5) “I Love You This Big”—I moved this one up because of the release of his new CD, “Clear As Day,” this week.
6) “Skyscraper”—Hurry up and fall. I’m losing interest in saying things about this song…
7) “Countdown”—Wow! This one is a bad one! It’s kind of a cross between “Girls Run the World” and “Single Ladies.” Those are not good signs in my book……………
8) “God Gave Me You”—I like both Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert and I wish them the very best, but this video, starting with it’s very personal message from Miranda, is not a good video or song to me. It flew up the charts and I hope it leaves just as quickly……
9) “Footloose”—I never liked this song by Kenny Loggins, so a remake does not excite me. It’s a note-for-note pedestrian remake of the original, and the only thing I feel is different is that he sings the words so they can now be understood and I don’t know that that’s a good thing either………………
10) “Not Over You”—Whatever……………….

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