Glenn Sez: Mutyamarda and Amerie

Hi guys! I have two music videos to share with you tonight. Two music videos for awesome songs with only so-so videos. I hate that.

The first is the video for the best song of 2007, "Song 4 Mutya" by Groove Armada and Mutya Beuna. Now, being the best single since Girls' Aloud's 2003 hit "Biology" is something to be proud of, and so they have kept up the tradition of having the best song of the year being matched with a sort of naff video. It's alright as videos go, but ever since I first heard this song I had a million video ideas flowing through my mind. None of them were like this.

Also, the quality is kind of shit (it appears to have been ripped off of a streaming Yahoo site). The video does have dancing bunnies, but I was wanting some sort of psyched out funkidelica inspired happy snappy video filled with jets of colour and lots of sunglasses being pulled to the tip of Mutya's nose so that she can roll her eyes for the camera. Alas...

Still, it is the best song of the year, so I guess it has that going for it.



The second video is for Amerie's "Gotta Work". A completely amazing track that blows most current R&B "divas" out of the water (except for Rihanna who is unsurpassable at this stage in terms of awesomeness). The video, alas, isn't that amazing. It looks flash and all but all it is is Amerie with a bunch of anonymous backup dancers doing some movies in various rooms. She wears pleather at one stage, too.

But, if there's on upside, it's that none of the dancers are in bikinis! Or manning powertools! Or performing yogalates! Or conveniently walking near a fire hydrant just as it errupts covering them in water, resulting in their ill-fitting clothes from becoming even tighter and more inappropriate! So, yay for that!

The Best Single Sleeve Of All Time?

Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps...


As the music world gets prepares for the release of, perhaps, the most amazing single of the last decade (except for maybe "Biology") we are getting word on who is remixing and who is not. PopJustice has news. "Song 4 Mutya" is gonna have about 27 billion different remixes because the song is just the most amazing thing ever in the history of songs that feature the artist's name (and the history of songs that don't feature the artists name, okay).

I've already recommended this song to you on many different occasions so if you don't know how brilliant "Song 4 Mutya" is by now then it's your own fault (and if you don't like it you are dead to me... okay, maybe not).

Oh, and the new Justice CD [cross] is quite good!

Song 4 You

I'm not here today. Working all day and then, most likely, sleeping when I get home because starting at 6.30 in the AM is not fun for my sleeping patterns. Nevertheless, here is a live performance of what is probably the best song in the history of the world, which I've discussed before: "Song 4 Mutya (Out of Control)" by Groove Armada and Mutya Beuna. It's pretty rockin'.

Are you a Real Girl?

You can thank me later.

Sorry about the lack of film-related stuff lately. The movie viewing has been quiet and nothing is really inspiring me that much to write. But I will eventually.

I'll be guestblogging over at Nat's Film Experience for a few days so I'll be here and there. Blah.

Now back to "Real Girl"...