Village Voice: Dark Horse is the best pop video this year
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So here's why "Dark Horse" is the best pop video this year...
...The premise of the video is simple: Katy-patra, endowed with some serious supernatural powers, is accepting gifts from suitors.
...Two things that are essential in any good Katy video are 1) a chameleonic propensity to the art of disguise, and 2) the utmost sincerity in silly dance moves.
...She literally just sifts a grill out of some dude's ashes and starts sucking on it without even rinsing it off first. It is the most inexplicable, magnificently ridiculous moment in the entire video, and the kind of visual non-sequitur that makes me love Katy so much
...Katy is a statue for a bit, and puts all Lady Gaga's attempted performance art and Miley Cyrus' strategically censored nudity to absolute shame.
..."Dark Horse" is a great video because of the acting.
...The reemergence of Katy with bangs. We love Katy with bangs.
...you become hypnotically endeared to her awkward white girl moves
...It's stupid fun, which is what makes a truly great pop music video.
"One thing Katy fans know and love about Katy is that she can't dance, the poor babe. In one of two cuts to her dancing, you will become hypnotically endeared to her awkward white girl moves."
Anything Katy is gonna get a punch of hate on this site. She went serious with the Uncle video, people called it boring, and she brought back the signature kooky/campness she's known for in the DH video and people are bashing it. Like, its pop music... its never that serious.
This source and author are both irrelevant but slay those random stans Katy!
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