Thoughts I Had While Watching Music Videos On The Morning Of The 15th April 2001

The following notes and random thoughts, in chronological order, were noted whilst watching a Top 20 countdown. If I could chose what music videos where in the Top 20 on public television, maybe two of these songs would be in it.

All For You - Janet Jackson

  • Janet Jackson wears a strange top in this video. One of the dancers wears jeans with one leg shorter than the other. This is weird.
  • I've always had a thing for Janet Jackson. She's attractive, she has a great voice, and an insanely cute, whispery giggle. She can also dance, and secretly I wish I could dance so if I lost my job, I'd have the option of moving to America to become part of Janet Jackson's dance troupe.

Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know - Britney Spears

  • Britney Spears has ugly hands.
  • She is looking more and more like Barbie.
  • The guy she snogs in this video is cute, you know, in a model way.
  • Her boobs don't move when she runs. That is scary.
  • Just before the first shot of the bed, she fucks up her lip-syncing.
  • I guess she's an okay singer though, but if anyone bought me her album, I'd try to smile and say thank you, although I probably wouldn't.

Don't Tell Me - Madonna

  • Madonna is constantly reinventing herself, and each time she does something different and usually succeeds. Madonna is one of the greatest female musicians alive - I mean come on, she's been doing it for years and years, and she's still cool. Not even Cher could do that.
  • Madonna does a sexy cowgirl dance.
  • She gets to dance with four hotties in this video. If it were me, I wouldn't be dancing, because, I can't dance. I'd probably just perve.
  • Madonna looks younger and younger. What's the bet I won't look that young when I'm her age, even if I stopped smoking.

Thank You - Dido

  • I can't stand this song.
  • Dido has a cool haircut, but has very yellow teeth. I thought famous people whitened them on a regular basis, even semi-famous people, like Carolyn Taylor from What Now. Her teeth weren't that white in school, I swear.
  • This video isn't very realistic, and it pisses me off. If someone came along and demolished my house with half my stuff in it, I would be crying and screaming and going mad, and she just walks away. Oh well, it's a shit song anyway.

My Happiness - Powerfinger

  • This video has a green tinge to it. I hope that it intentional, and it's not my television.
  • There is scary slinky action in this video clip. The thought of slinkies moving by themselves and climbing stairs is scary.
  • I really like this song. I want to sing it everytime I hear it.
  • I love it when New Zealand and Australian songs get in the charts. There is far too much American prepackaged rubbish. More local bands (although Australia isn't exactly local, but Americans seem to think so) should be getting in there. The only person to blame though is the 10-15 year olds who buy all the singles. Oh well.

Teenage Riot - The Ataris

  • This song is growing on me. Whenever I see it starting, I think, "Oh god, not this song again." But then it starts, and I think, "Oh, this song isn't so bad." I don't really like the whole punk/pop fused with ska sound, but yeah, anyway, not much to say about this song.

Supreme - Robbie Williams

  • Oh, Robbie. Robbie Williams is the only celebrity that I would want to meet and have a drink with. He seems funny, I dig that. Sure I do.
  • This video amuses me, as do most of his. But, I don't really like it that much, I don't even like the song, I just like the singer. I mostly like the stuck-in-caravan-because-of-pooing bit at the end.

Survivor - Destiny's Child

  • I want to be in a singing group where we get to wear similar, but not quite matching outfits. Especially when famous designers make dresses for us. That would be great.
  • I wish I was black, or whatever the politically correct term is today, so I could sing like that, and not be as pale as a ghost at any given moment.
  • [Impending generalisation] Why can't white girls sing as good as black girls? More importantly, why can I sing as good as Destiny's Child? Nothing to dwell on, I suppose.

Ms Jackson - Outkast

  • This song, and video, rocks so hard.
  • They hired the cutest cat in the world for this video.
  • Also, a cute puppy.
  • This video makes me want to get a dog, even though I don't really like dogs that much.
  • I'd be so pissed if lightening blew up my car. Except, that would never happen because mine is a tank.
  • I really need to buy this album.
  • Hehehe, it cracks me up when the owl says, "Forever ever?" I'm so easily amused.
  • This is another song I have to sing along to.
  • The puppy walks the wrong way up the piano. This annoys me.

There It Is - Genuwine

  • Yuck. No where near as good as Craig David.
  • Oh my god, what the hell is with the dancing bit at the end? He should just stop.

He Loves You Not - Dream

  • These girls have the worst choreographer in the history of the world. In conjunction with the likelihood that they actually can't dance, this makes for a very bad music video indeed.

Walking Away - Craig David

  • This is the first Craig David music clip where he doesn't have a white girl in it with him. Although, this girl is still pretty pale.
  • Ben likes the sweater that he is wearing. I agree that it is spunky.

Trouble - Coldplay

  • This song makes me feel teary. It's sad, you know?
  • The lead singer from Coldplay looks a lot like my friend Dan. No one else seems to think so though, so it's probably just me.
  • I want to learn how to play this song on the piano. It's very pretty.
  • I would also like to see these guys like, but I doubt I'll make it to Auckland for the concert in August.

Angel - Shaggy

  • I hate Shaggy, I hate Shaggy, I hate Shaggy. He's so vulgar.
  • If he wasn't famous, I doubt he could get hot chicks. He looks so weasely.
  • He doesn't do much in his songs, but they all get released under his name. He talks some in his toad voice (which Ben does a brilliant impression of), then someone else sings the chorus and Shaggy goes, "Oh, oh" in his toad voice again.
  • God, this song is also number six. How depressing.

What It Feels Like For A Girl - Madonna

  • This song is my favourite song at the moment. It's so rocking. It makes me want to shake my groove thing. Also, makes me want to drive my car fast, but it doesn't go fast, so that's okay.
  • I wish this wasn't the edited version.

Butterfly - Crazy Town

  • The blonde guy is cute, in a short way. The brunette guy reminds me of Andy, if he were pop-punkrocker.
  • It's weird how this song is such a girly song with a girly video made for crazy hippie girls who believe in faerires, and how apparently the rest of the album is really heavy. I wonder how many 16-year-old girls have bought The Gift of Game before listening to it, and been pissed off.

Noboby Wants to Be Lonely - Ricki Martin with Christina Aguleira

  • This song makes me want to vomit. So does Christina's makeup. It's so terrible.
  • Also terrible: Ricki's demin shirt, his brown trousers, Christina's black mumble pants, her white trashy top, her blonde "wig" and her makeup.
  • Back to the makeup, it's terrible. Really terrible. She should fire her makeup artist.
  • Ricki Martin has hairy old-man's hands.

As Long As You're Loving Me - Vitamin C

  • This woman looks a little like Calista Flockhart. In a good way, though, if that could be taken in a good way. She's not anorexic looking, at least.
  • This song is bad. It's sickening, and every time it plays on the radio at work, I change the station. I have to, it will make me insane.
  • I like her hairstyle.
  • I don't like her white pants.

I'm Like A Bird - Nelly Furtardo

  • This girl is so sexy. She's so exotic. Penny thinks so too.
  • This song is also growing on me.