“Q” Bombs: October 9, 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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Well, something new happened this week. There are two entries for the same song! I honestly never thought that could or would happen. The good news is that one of those will drop off after this week. The bad news is there’s a double dose of Blake Shelton bombs waiting for entry………..

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Worst Videos for the week of October 9, 2011

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

1) “Pumped Up Kicks”—Dropping way too slowly for me…, plus the awful appearance on Saturday Night Live, moves this one back to the top.
2) “Remind Me” —Another week at number one on the CMT Top 20 Countdown. I thought for sure that Taylor Swift would have taken over by now. What happened? Did Taylor forget to pay somebody off?…Just kidding. (Sort of..)
3) “Shut Up Train”—This video hasn’t made it onto any countdown yet, but it is so annoying that the infrequent times I see it, is moving it quickly up my chart. Of course, that also means that it can disappear very quickly…
4) “Dirt Road Anthem”—Finally, a decent size drop on the CMT Top 20 Countdown. Uh, oh. That might be because he has another video climbing the list: “Tatoos On This Town.” As Satchel Paige–an incredible baseball player with a mind to match, might have said, “Don’t Look Back. Something might be gaining on you.”
5) “Moves Like Jagger”—Wow, what a cheesy video! And have you ever tried to sing along to this song? It’s almost impossible…
6) “Skyscraper”—Falling slowly on the VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown. I’ll take it for now…
7) “Pumped Up Kicks”—ODWITS!!! An unprecedented second entry for the same song on the same list! Check out my “Q”sings on this one for a little more detail!
8) “I Love You This Big”—OK. Other viewers aren’t loving this song that much any more either……………
9) “Hell on Heels”—It appears to be ready to drop off CMT’s Top 20 Videos (which means I probably won’t see or hear it anymore), so I’ll go easy on it this week.
10) “Not Over You”—Man, I was over this video and song the first time I watched it.

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