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'.

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I loved Jindabyne, y'all know that (it may or may not be up for an obscene 9 UMA awards in the major categories alone, *looks around with shifty eyes*) and I love this interview with Ray Lawrence from the LA Weekly. He's such an intelligent man and he gives great interview.

L.A. WEEKLY: Even though you once nearly made a film about a woman crossing the Australian outback by camel, the three films you’ve directed are all group portraits and ensemble pieces.

RAY LAWRENCE: I do seem to like the ensemble thing. I guess I might get bored [working] with just one or two people for eight weeks. Somebody said that the films are a trilogy on death and family, and you could also look at it that way, I suppose.

Here's hoping that the "Australian Terrence Malick" works again quickly. I need his movies to feed my desire for good mature drama, which is increasingly rare, unfortunately. Even if nobody outside of Australia seemingly wants to go see them. Except Ja. I love Ja for loving Ray.

Speaking of Ja, his Pic of the Day (not the one to the right) is from another horror film (surely you remember the last one) but this time I am not objecting. I am quietly agreeing. Quietly? I don't do anything quietly. But I am here because as much as the idea of a remake of Halloween fills me with equal parts bile and hilarity (the minds of those Hollywood folk) I am an unabashed fan of the previously most maligned horror remake, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Still, I don't really have faith for this Halloween remake after all the stuff we've heard about it. And I adored Rob Zombie's Devil's Rejects (a grindhouse homage if ever I saw one.)

Have you seen the trailer for Day Watch. It looks absolutely bonkers and I love it. There's a horse charging through a brick wall, there's the wheel sequence from Pirates of the Caribbean 2 en masse, there's vertical car chases and there appears to be ample melodrama, nudity and quirkiness. I haven't seen Night Watch, but maybe I should.

This picture of Mark Wahlberg certainly amused me, alright. But one of the comments really bugged me. "Poor guy didn't age very well." Ugh. I'm assuming this person (and the other 40-year-old fat men/twentysomething size queens just like him) are of the "if he isn't a 21-year-old muscle queen then he ain't hot" or whatever. If Mark Wahlberg ain't sexy then I don't know who is. Did these people see him during the awards season. He was damn fine. Ugh. Gay people annoy me so much sometimes. Lord knows what would happen if it turned out Wahlberg was actually gay. He'd probably be seen as ancient. Don't people realise men (and women!) get better looking as they age. It's the reason why so many of my celebrity crushes are actually men who, if in real life, would be way too inappropraitely aged for me. Anyway. People are stupid.

Have y'all heard Rihanna's follow-up to "Umbrella"? To quote music bible PopJustice, "With 'Shut Up And Drive' she has already equaled the previous Rihanna record - two listenable songs on one album". So way to go Rihanna. Your last two albums weren't worth the dog shit they were covered it, but with the amazing "Umbrella" and the not-as-amazing-but-amazing-all-the-same "Shut Up and Drive" you're on your way to making me care. Listen to it over yonder.

And lastly, can I just give out a reminded to all Aussies, Brits and Europeans (not sure about elsewhere) but Groove Armada's Soundboy Rock album was released this week. It's a pretty great album, but you should check it out for the most amazing super-dooper terrific amazing amazing amazing thrilling amazing song of the year. I made a passing reference (yeah, as if) to it earlier in the year. If you are as-of-the-moment unaware of how flatout genius "Song 4 Mutya (Out of Control)" -featuring the divine Mutya Beuna- is, just wait a month for when the single is released and it, by all deserved rights, explodes and becomes the song of the UK/European summer. I still stand by my below quote. It's brilliant.

It's like they took everything that was great about Annie's "Chewing Gun", Space Cowboy's "My Egyptian Lover" and Basement Jaxx's "Good Luck" and then injected the unreleased techno soundtrack of a futuristic sci-fi rip-off of Kill Bill!

A sure fire way to make by day

So, I think I've heard to single greatest pop song of the last two years. Definitely the best since "Biology" by Girls Aloud. It's un-freakin'-believable! It single-handedly trumps pretty much every song I heard last year. I've literally been listening to it for the last hour non-stop and last night I listened to it about 20 times in a row.

It's deliriously thrilling! It's got cowbells! It's got guitars! It's got the singer actually singing the song to herself with spoken word segments!!! It's got the lyric "I'm driving fast / I feel so fine / I've got Prince singin' 'Hot Thing' to me / I know every line"! It's one big celebrity diss! It got another lyric that goes "Don't panic panic / Don't act too manic manic". It has a minute-long instrumental bit at the end! "You're a sure fire way to ruin my day"! It sounds retro AND futuristic! The artist's name is in the title of the song!

It's like they took everything that was great about Annie's "Chewing Gun", Space Cowboy's "My Egyptian Lover" and Basement Jaxx's "Good Luck" and then injected the unreleased techno soundtrack of a futuristic sci-fi rip-off of Kill Bill!

Holy crap, this song is brilliant.

Naturally though, America would be fuckin' terrified of it. Thank god we still have Europe to make amazing pop and dance music. The song isn't perfect, but I don't think I'm listening to the final version, either. It's just so amazing. Every time it ends I just click it again. It's gonna be at over 100 listens by the end of 24 hours. That's how unbelievably awesome it is.

I don't think I should pass on the file though because it's very illegal and it's not released until May, I think. Oops. Hopefully I won't be worn out by it.

Oh man, I just realised how scarily gobsmackingly stunning the remixes are going to be. WOW. This one's gonna be a biggie.

And yes, I realise I haven't even mentioned the name or who it's by. ; )