Saturday Morning Videos

by Pop Tarts Suck Toasted on Sat, 2009/05/02 - 2:00pm Post to Twitter

Polly Scattergood - "Please Don’t Touch"; There are worse things in the world then watching this Polly Scattergood video that’s for damn sure. With just her lovely self and her adorable voice she makes this video pop off the screen. The music and her beauty are obviously enough to sell this package so why mess it up with anything more creative then that?
Grade: B-

We Were Promised Jetpacks - "Quiet Little Voices"; The boys of We Were Promised Jetpacks aren’t quite as friendly to the eye as Polly Scattergood is. There tune is solid, but a video of them standing around playing, and it being distorted by the video isn’t gonna win me over. The tune is good though, so let’s not be too mean here.
Grade: C+

Little Boots - "New In Town"; Little Boots makes people want to dance. The homeless, gangsters, people having sex, they all wanna boogie when Little Boots comes around in her blue dress. Yeah, that’s what this video’s all about and it’s sexy and lovely and a very dance worthy song.
Grade: B

The Boy Least Likely To - "When Life Gives Me Lemons I Make Lemonade"; The moral of this story is to not fly with a pinwheel when it’s raining outside. It’s an adorable moral, and an adorable video, but what else would we expect from The Boy Least Likely To.
Grade: B-

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - "Young Adult Friction"; The Pains of Being Pure at Heart do an excellent job of pairing deep emotions with light and joyous pop music. It makes it feel like everything will be okay, and in this video they do a good job of pairing darker images; the skeleton, books on suicide and being a teenager, with their smiling selves. This video fits perfectly with the song, though it doesn’t make the song better it serves as a solid visual companion for the music.
Grade: A-

Video of the Week:

Titus Andronicus - "Upon Viewing Brueghl’s Landscape With the Fall of Icarus"; With the release of their self-titled album Titus Andronicus proved that you don’t need any tricks or gimmicks to make solid rock music that people would adore, you just need passion and an earnest ability to craft some good songs. Titus prove once again that no frills is usually the best way to go with an energetic, passionate, black and white video for their tune. Okay, they throw in a bunch of glitter and a crowd surfer but that only enhances the power of their raw live performances. Anyone who has ever seen them knows that this is the true Titus Andronicus at its best.