Seemingly Intractable Questions In Pop, No.1 in a Series

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

How do you make pop work on TV?

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

whaaat the best bit of 'Umbrella' the song is right at the end, "I'll be all you need and mooo-OOOOO-OOORRRRREEEE BECAUSE -", and the best bit of the video is the first verse when she fends off the water with her hands.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The water chucking is really good - why couldn't they have made a bigger thing of that (like the Aly & AJ vid) instead of the HORRID 'sechsy dancing' with the brolly/out-of-focus ballet strutting, which are both k-unflattering to poor old Ri. The painted-silver bits are just creepy.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Mmm yes the brolly dancing is very...stilted, isn't it. I have this vision of Beyoncé and Ciara, on seeing it for the first time, simultaneously ringing each other up to point/laugh/cackle/gloat.

I like to think of the painted silver bits as a kind of Grace Jones tribute.