Observations on the music channels.

[thenorthernline]

Product placement in music videos is getting more ridiculous by the day. I remember a time where technology meant a Roland synthesizer, or a neon sign, or a bit of smoke and mirrors. Or a lava lamp. Nowadays, the pop video is a lurid cut-and-shut of Freudian metaphors. Look, there's a junkyard, reimagined as an illicit, dirty bordello where bros

Comments

[michaelbush]

Dissage of Beyonce-Beyonce aside, the bit about "The Editors" made me laugh, quite literally, out loud.

Cheerio, Michael. xxx

[thenorthernline]

Hey, I liked 'Check On It' or 'Check On Me' or whatever it was called! But everyone hated that one.

[hannahness]

Isn't it just 'Editors', as they often insist? Absolutely true though - that lyric is a bundle of shite. The song's not up to much, either, sadly, 'cause I quite like their first album.

Jay-Zee looking like a big drunk baby
LOLZ.

I'm intrigued to know what you think of all the indie videos on mtv2 that get made for about 12p...

[thenorthernline]

Oh, I don't know. They're probably just doing that to avoid being another 'The' band. The Thrills, The Stills, The Kills, etc.

I don't get mtv2, I've only got Freeview!