“Q” Bombs: September 23, 2012

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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Rascal Flatts stays on top for another week. I don’t think they’re going to hang around like they normally would because their video keeps hanging around in the lower teens on CMT………………..
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Worst Videos for the week of September 23, 2012

1. Come Wake Me Up—Rascal Flatts
2. Cowboys and Angels—Dustin Lynch
3. Blown Away—Carrie Underwood
4. Oh Love—Green Day
5. As Long As You Love Me—Justin Bieber and Big Sean
6. Wanted You More—Lady Antebellum
7. Too Close—Alex Clare
8. Ho Hey—The Lumineers
9. Titanium—David Guetta with Sia
10. Good Time—Owl City and Carly Rae Jepsen

1) “Come Wake Me Up”—Yes, Rascal Flatts have made another snoozer of a video. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…………
2) “Cowboys and Angels”—The longer Dustin Lynch’s video hangs around, the less I appreciate his song…………………..
3) “Blown Away”Carrie Underwood has way too many fans to “blow away” her bad video…………………………
4) “Oh Love”—Apparently there are a couple more “unedited” versions of Green Day’s latest video. I don’t think anything could possibly help the video, so I’m not concerned with hunting them down……………….
5) “As Long As You Love Me”Justin Bieber looks like he may have peaked on VH1. Yay!!!
6) “Wanted You More”—Such a bad video for a decent song. This is sometimes why I don’t like videos because downer songs are hard to translate to a different medium……………..
7) “Too Close”Alex Clare is starting to move “too close” to the top ten on VH1………
8) “Ho Hey”The Lumineers leveled off on VH1 this week. Maybe there’s some hope they’ll start to drop…………..
9) “Titanium”—Yawn………………………………………
10) “Good Time”—Yeah, I know it may be too soon to throw a “Q” bomb at Carly Rae Jepsen after her monster hit….so I’ll throw it at Owl City since they headline the video. I mean, Carly Rae Jepsen does her thing being all cutesy and bubbly which is what she’s there for. The chorus sounds like it was pulled from a combination of Carly Rae’s own “Call Me Maybe” and Katy Perry’s “California Gurls.” It just seems way too derivative and familiar.
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