“Q” Bombs: October 2, 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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Wow! A couple of annoying videos have finally disappeared! Let’s set off a funeral pyre before “If I Die Young” has a chance to resurrect! “Dirt Road Anthem” will now become the focus of my attention. How long is this boring video going to stick around……..

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Worst Videos for the week of October 2, 2011

1. Dirt Road Anthem—Jason Aldean
2. Remind Me—Brad Paisley with Carrie Underwood
3. Pumped Up Kicks—Foster the People
4. I Love You This Big–Scott McCreery
5. Skyscraper—Demi Lovato
6. Shut Up Train-Little Big Town
7. Hell on Heels—Pistol Annies
8. Moves Like Jagger-Maroon 5 with Christina Aguilera
9. Not Over You—Gavin DeGraw
10. You and I–Lady Gaga

1) “Dirt Road Anthem”—Still hanging on at #2 for no inexplicable reason. So it moves up again. I know that these two videos are reversed on the CMT Top 20 Countdown, but this one annoys me way more. I understand Jason Aldean is hot right now and a song like “My Kinda Party” deserved the attention it got, but there’s way better stuff out there—by him and other artists. Why won’t this one drop!!!!????
2) “Remind Me” —Look. I really like Brad Paisley so it kills me to have to keep listing this one as a bad video. Please fall off. Soon………………………
3. “Pumped Up Kicks”
—Dropping way too slowly for me………….
4. “I Love You This Big”—And I love this song this big! (I am holding my thumb and forefinger a micrometer apart…..
5. “Skyscraper”—C’mon. This one is hard to continue to write about because of Demi’s personal problems. I can’t say, “You know that skyscraper. Why don’t you go to the top”…..
You fill it in. I don’t want to say, “Go to the top, and throw this video off of it.” I guess I can. So do it, Demi. What were you thinking……………
6. “Shut Up Train”—A boring black and white video in which the title says it all. I expect more from a group that gave us such a great “Little White Church” video….
7. “Hell on Heels”—Oh, how I wish there was some “hell” in this video. Great title, though….
8. “Moves Like Jagger”—This one is kind of borderline bad—and that’s good because that means that most of the videos out there that don’t make either of my lists are just kind of mediocre. Now, that’s a different kind of problem…Anyway, I would rather stick with the original Mick Jagger than watch this pretend video of bad imitations..
9. “Not Over You”—It appears to be stuck. Can someone give it a push from behind….
10. “You and I”—Many disturbing visual images–and that’s what videos are for. But there are so many of them………………………….

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