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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Train arrives at the top this week with a comedic video! It’s not the first time they’ve been there, but this time it’s the good list!
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Top 10 Videos and Performances for the week of August 19, 2012
1. 50 Ways to Say Goodbye—Train
2. The Wind—Zac Brown Band
3. Pontoon—Little Big Town
4. One More Night—Maroon 5 with Adam Levine
5. She’s So Mean—Matchbox 20
6. Takin’ Pills—The Pistol Annies
7. Wide Awake—Katy Perry
8. Over—Blake Shelton
9. Come Over—Kenny Chesney
10. Whistle—Flo Rida
1) “50 Ways to Say Goodbye”—There is a line and a video sequence in Train’s “50 Ways to Say Goodbye” video that recalls the plot of an old Jack Lemmon movie called “How to Murder Your Wife.” This would be a compliment. One of the ways she supposedly died is that she “fell in a cement mixer full of quicksand.” In “How to Murder Your Wife,” Jack Lemmon plays a lifelong bachelor who drunkenly marries the very pretty Virna Lisi. Once he realizes what he’s done and because he writes a newspaper column, he conceives a plot to kill off his fictitious wife. He does it by throwing her into the “gloppita gloppita machine”—which is his name for a cement mixer. Jack Lemmon doesn’t actually do it, but the courtroom scene is quite ingenious! If that movie was the inspiration for that line, I have new respect for Train! Either way they have the new No.1 video this week!
2) “The Wind”—The Zac Brown Band may have peaked but there is a lot to like in their video!
3) “Pontoon”—Aww. Little Big Town’s “Pontoon” may be heading in to shore. It sure was a blast for most of the summer!
4) “One More Night”—Normally, I don’t like melodramatic videos because the song doesn’t warrant such a treatment. I totally buy Adam Levine in his role as a boxer!
5) “She’s So Mean”—For some reason, I like watching the girlfriend torture the guys in Matchbox 20!
6) “Takin Pills”—The Pistol Annies poke fun at themselves and all other women’s bar bands as they describe and show life on the road! I like this video a lot!
7) “Wide Awake”—Surprisingly, I still like watching Katy Perry’s video, even though it’s been around for quite awhile now. I like the special effects, particularly when the young Katy stomps her foot to get past the guards and the floor falls away!
8) “Over”—Blake Shelton’s video run for this song may be “over.” C’mon now. I moved him from the bad list on to the good list. That doesn’t happen very often.
9) “Come Over”—I know I have neglected to put Kenny Chesney’s cinematic black-and-white video on my list, but that’s because I didn’t know he was in the video. I thought only model Amber Lehman Styling was in it. Huh. Silly me………………….
10) “Whistle”—Flo Rida hangs around for another week.
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