Mommy lets me watch MTV: "I Think I'm Paranoid"

Version 2.0, the second album by Garbage circa 1998, brought Shirley Manson's electric power-moaning to life with songs like "Push It" and "When I Grow Up". "I Think I'm Paranoid" reveals a primitive anger and sexuality mingled with inadequacy. Her strapless dress and combat boots are killer, by the way.

Mommy lets me watch MTV: "Comedown"

This new series features a weekly video from my 90's alternative past (in which I still linger) before high school and TRL screwed everything up. This music is home to me: where I always involuntarily end up when I want to feel something.

Made famous by the Reese Witherspoon/Mark Wahlberg third-base-on-a-rollercoaster scene in, Fear (1996), Bush's Comedown is one of the precious relics that dear Mr. Rossdale decided to leave us before cruelly slipping into the wayside of SHITTY MUSIC. This single is from their first album, Sixteen Stone (1994).

A boost of Jovanotti

I haven't been feeling up to snuff at all lately, but Jovanotti's new (to me) song/video got me to crack a smile, however corny.

M.I.A.'s "Boyz": see Rihanna's "Rude Boy"

I came upon a great article yesterday from the NY Times Magazine about the life, work, and upcoming album from Maya Arulpragasam, also known as M.I.A., one of my favorite artists since (yes, I'll admit it) her 2009 hit, "Paper Planes." I planned to dedicate this post to her provocative, bad-ass booty-shaking effects on my life, but as I was searching through a video to post, I found something interesting.

Check out this video for the single, "Boyz", from Kala, which released in 2007.



Now here's the recently released video for Rihanna's "Rude Boy", one of my personal favorites from her 2009 album, Rated R. I like to think of it as her rendition of the above.



Hmm. Let me get my calculator. Graffiti art + Jamacain color scheme + animation + dancing + BOYS = Rihanna kind of ripped off M.I.A. However, Rihanna does have a stuffed lion. With a crown.

Not sure what to think: Gaga's new video

Is it weird that when she entered first scene of the video, I thought: Hamburglar?