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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Maroon 5 and Adam Levine punch their way to the top spot, but competition looks kind of weak right now as two artists, Little Big Town and Taylor Swift have two entries apiece (?) on the list!
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Top 10 Videos and Performances for the week of September 23, 2012
1. One More Night—Maroon 5 with Adam Levine
2. Piece of My Heart—Faith Hill on CMA Music Festival 2012
3. Ronan—Taylor Swift for Cancer Benefit
4. Pontoon—Little Big Town
5. Lovin’ You Is Fun—Easton Corbin
6. She’s So Mean—Matchbox 20
7. Born This Way—Little Big Town
8. 50 Ways to Say Goodbye—Train
9. Come Over—Kenny Chesney
10. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together—Taylor Swift
1) “One More Night”—Adam Levine loses and wins at the same time. I wish the song were as good as the video, but the video is GREAT!
2) “Piece of My Heart”—Faith Hill recently appeared on an ABC CMA Music Festival. This is usually broadcast around the beginning of the school year. Faith—looking better than she did twenty years ago while rocking a sweater and skin tight jeans, and sounding just as good, floored me with a version of her first hit, “Piece of My Heart!” I forgot she even did this song. But instead of the familiar country sound, Faith gave it the full Janis Joplin treatment—even getting down on her knees! It reminded me—and the goosebumps I got were the proof — just how good she really is! WOW!
3) “Ronan”—One more sad week with Taylor Swift. You can find the video elsewhere on my website.
4) “Pontoon”—Finally, after many months, Little Big Town reaches number one on CMT! It’s about time everybody else caught up to me!
5) “Lovin’ You Is Fun”—Easton Corbin is catching on, but it’s not a ball of fire at the moment. It should have caught on three or four months ago……………..
6) “She’s So Mean”—Matchbox 20 moves up again in spite of the fact that it looks like Rob Thomas is wearing green eye shadow…………………..
7) “Born This Way”—Little Big Town seem to be currently riding a “pontoon wave” where they can’t do anything wrong. They turned in a country bluegrass version of a Lady Gaga cover that was really sharp at a CMT performance!
8) “50 Ways to Say Goodbye”—Maybe Train decided to hang around a little bit longer. That’s OK with me for this video!
9) “Come Over”—Kenny’s almost off the list, but I think that this is one of his better songs and videos!
10) “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”—Probably the last good thing I can say about Taylor Swift’s video for her single from her upcoming “Red” album, is all of the musicians in their animal outfits as everyone jumps up and says “Whee-eeeeeeeee” to start the chorus. “Never Ever” is a very weak initial single in my opinion. I think it’s a “bear” song and only sold well because she has so many fans and hadn’t released anything new in a while. It’s the equivalent of The Beatles’ “Lady Madonna.”
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