New Weezer and The Re-Birth of Music Videos

So this weekend instead of getting drunk and grilling, I spent most of my time at work which means sitting online for extended periods of time.

First off, the new Weezer album, which is self-titled AGAIN and casually known as The Red Album leaked online and my first impression is that it is much better than their last offering of Make Believe, but doesn't come close to touching Weezer (The Blue Album) or Pinkerton. There are some catchy pop songs like "Pork and Beans" and "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived," but there are some failures like "Everybody Get Dangerous" which comes off sounding like a terrible Red Hot Chili Peppers track. Overall, it will make for a good summer release, but there should be dozens that are better.

The second thing that I did this weekend was getting back into music videos. MTV killed music videos for me about five years ago when every track got a music video and for the most part they were awful. Recently I have stumbled upon a few really good videos. One is from the afore mentioned Weezer album. The other one is from the French dance-duo Justice. This video is extremely realistic and makes me a bit tentative of going to France if the video captures any truth at all.

Weezer's newest single "Pork and Beans" brings back the fun, pop culture loving Weezer that disappeared after Maladroit in 2002. If you are as much of a nerd as I am, you will recognized the majority of the cameos in this video. If you don't, you need to watch more YouTube videos.

The next video is for Justice's song "Stress" from †, which never popped out enough at me to warrant a music video, but French director Romain-Gavras does an absolutely amazing job with the song and the video. Throughout the whole video, all I could think to myself was "Where can i get one of those jackets?"



Are there any new video you've found that you want to share? Leave a comment so we can check them out.

Fan Made Justice Vid

God, are we lazy or what? We have an excuse though. We're working on something BIG. I'm not going to go into crazy details until it launches, but you'll see when it comes. Anyways, you may or may not have seen the video to Justice's "Phantom Pt. II" floating around the Interweb. It's below. We spoke briefly about the official video here.

I don't know which one I like more, but for an unofficial video it is certainly well done. Daniel Bloomberg put it together, in case you were wondering.

Insert Kanye West Joke Here

I've been meaning to post this, but this weekend has been sort of busy. For those of you who have yet to come across it, it is the video for Justice's newest single "DNVO," which is directed by So-Me. Pretty neat and very much in line with the video for "D.A.N.C.E." and also is one of my favorite songs on their album from last year.



Also, Ed allegedly interviewed Quiet Life yesterday at their CD release show in New Haven. We should see that up here tomorrow, I would assume. So look for that and check out two songs off that album on their MySpace now.

Now I Know Why Kanye Gave Up

After being put to shame by Justice at the Euro MTV awards in 2006 and then making an ass of himself, maybe Kanye West just gave up on trying to outdo the French duo. If you missed it, Kanye crashed the stage after his video for "Touch the Sky" lost to Justice vs. Simian's "We Are Your Friends." Not too surprising considering how "Touch the Sky" was just typical hip-hop fare.

Justice's highly acclaimed video for "D.A.N.C.E." even drew comparisons to Kanye's "Good Life" by Ed here.

Well here we are again. Shortly after Kanye released his video for "Flashing Lights", Justice one-upped him again with their video for "Phantom II." It's no "D.A.N.C.E." but it certainly beats out "Flashing Lights." Sorry, Kanye.