I must say, I really would love to hear some great reasonings as to why Luke Bryan will be featured on your worst singles/videos lists (if they happen, I know TIHWR will end up on there, even though Luke is the somewhat saving grace for that song, the rest of the song and video is the pits).
Oh and I am SOOOOO READY for an extended drag of the Sun Daze video.
BTW did you know Sun Daze is the highest rated FGL songs out on the country surveys for radio?
I was inspired by my graphics from last year, although I think its much cleaner this year.
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Originally posted by Celebrate
I must say, I really would love to hear some great reasonings as to why Luke Bryan will be featured on your worst singles/videos lists (if they happen, I know TIHWR will end up on there, even though Luke is the somewhat saving grace for that song, the rest of the song and video is the pits).
Oh and I am SOOOOO READY for an extended drag of the Sun Daze video.
BTW did you know Sun Daze is the highest rated FGL songs out on the country surveys for radio?
Besdies "I'm grown and I hate who I want," I find Luke to be a boring singer with zero stage presence and an overrated backside (seriously dude is flat as a board). Plus he is too damn old to be acting a fool as he is *coughpotsayshitokettlecough*. But you're in luck, he only made my bitchout over the other bad male country songs that did not make the 50 worst
Ok, there's a couple blending spots between Soul Train and now. But I really like it.
23
Arabella
Arctic Monkeys
22
Tough Love
Jessie Ware
21
Come With Me Now
KONGOS
20
Rather Be
Clean Bandit (ft. Jess Glynne)
19
Yellow Flicker Beat
Lorde
18
Video Girl
FKA twigs
17
Without You
Lee Michelle
The fact this was a minor viral hit amongst the international K-Pop community and did less than nothing in Korea is...not surprising. Shame, the little girl in the video is adorbs!
16
30Sexy
Rain
The heel on that boot....I both covet and die laughin at...
15
Display (Panasonic Edit)
Perfume
If you can see it in 4K do it. It's crazy pretty.
14
The Worst
Jhene Aiko
13
Never Catch Me
Flying Lotus (ft. Kendrick Lamar)
12
Digital Witness
St. Vincent
11
소격동 (Sogyeokdong)
IU (ft. Seo Taiji)
10
Body Love (Parts 1&2)
Mary Lambert
09
Crying For No Reason
Katy B
08
Partition
Beyoncé
Part of me thinks "Yoncé" should be here and "Partition" should have been yesterday. Thoughts?
07
Catallena
Orange Caramel
06
I Won't Let You Down
OK Go
05
Fancy
Iggy Azealia (ft. Charlie XCX)
Messy as Iggy is...and as useless a rapper as she is, the video is damn near perfect.
04
Fever
The Black Keys
03
Hideaway
Kiesza
02
Turn Down For What
DJ Snake (ft. Lil' Jon)
To me? This video is absolutely brilliant. Stupid. But absolutely brill. But Stromae did a bit better.
01
Tous Les Memes
Stromae
Stromae joins M.I.A. in snagging two Best Videos. But he's the first to ever get them back to back (although Kanye nearly pulled that. And Rihanna. And M.I.A. now that I think about it) with a video that will be celebrating it's one-year release tomorrow.
Yep. The Best Video of 2014 nearly finished second to the amazing "Papatouai" LAST YEAR but thanks to the 12/15 cut off gets a rare double. And that first chorus dance sequence...God damn it it's amazing.
I was inspired by my graphics from last year, although I think its much cleaner this year.
Besdies "I'm grown and I hate who I want," I find Luke to be a boring singer with zero stage presence and an overrated backside (seriously dude is flat as a board). Plus he is too damn old to be acting a fool as he is *coughpotsayshitokettlecough*. But you're in luck, he only made my bitchout over the other bad male country songs that did not make the 50 worst
Well they are excellent indeed
...wait Backside? well that's a discussion I haven't seen appear when talking about Luke Bryan before
He is in his 30's....Late.....
Phew....because I know as Luke is the biggest country star atm he will face the biggest critisicms and since your one of the 20 people on this forum that check for country music (and then 5 that actually check out the different duos/male country musicians) i figured I'd ask ahead of time to prepare my weave
BTW I know and love the 9 songs that are featured in the top 25. I'm surprised not more Beyonce ended up in the top 25, but hey Partition is a bop so its all good
Admittedly, I wasn't very familiar with this year's music videos at ALL. But the "Turn Down For What" vid is going to be remembered for a long time, so I guess there's that?
Come With Me Now is good, Rather Be
My favorite is "Habits"! Both the song & the music video are amazing.
Hideaway is one of my favorite music videos from 2014! and Ok Go, they're the kings of the music videos
1) My list
2) I tend to view videos harsher when the plot makes no sense, the visuals are bad or the editing is bad.
3) I'm aware people will probably like more of these videos than they did my Best Of list
4) I rated "Stay The Night" as one of the worst in 2013 solely on Haley Williams' hair. So I can be petty.
5) I dunno if I'm growing nice in old age or what but I didn't really feel like reading these videos all the way down.
50
Pretty much most of K-Pop
#sorrynotsorry
(Using Stellar's "Mask" as I think it's worse than "Marionette," has zero plot and the girls seriously fail at "cute-sexy" or at their butt conga. Feel free to list other videos that are just as bad *coughTaemancough*).
OK< I hate to stigmatize a whole genre, especially since I just listed five or six different videos in the last two days as brill, but music labels have zero clue what they are doing with videos in Korea. There's a seaofboxrooms used to film the same video over and over, plots which consist of "seven guys are dating the same girl," poor use of CGI, five minute "teasers" before the song starts, shoddy horridediting and more. WHne the major issue in video was "sexy" or "cute" for girlgroups and how apparently cute won (yay A Pink I guess?) even though pelvicthrusts were all the rage but zippers were a no, ya know there's a problem. And when k-pop fans celebrate a video shot in a parking garage, there's a bigger problem.
I like the occasional song. But the videos are their own special sauce of stupidity. AND STOP THEMING YOUR GROUPS. I saw seven "vampire" boybands, three army boybands, three or four trying to be "urban" (#rollallthef'neyes), a tribal theme (the hell?), one where I think hair color was the difference (Red Velvet I'm talking to you) and more. Seriously, give us people who like to sing, can get along and not kill each other and you'll be fine.
49
Baby Don't Lie
Gwen Stefani
If we ignore the slightly more interesting beat during the opening black-and-white section, why are we doing a 80s computer-bit Wizard of Oz rendition? You've been off the scene for two years and no solo album for eight, could you not come up with a new source to steal from?
48
Find You
Zedd (ft. Matthew Koma and Miriam Bryant)
Actually this makes it for both horrible editing, stupid birds, a plot that I think I made up (lesbians running from their lesbianing) and the fact that Matthew is shown playing a guitar THAT IS NOWHERE IN THE MIX. Tiesto didn't have Matthew play a fake guitar while he mean mugged in "Wasted" so what is the deal here?
47
Meanwhile Back At Mamas
Tim McGraw (ft. Faith Hill)
Holy Horrid Editing, Tim! And cutting in the CMA footage makes it more jarring. As this is really one of the best country songs this year with a sincere message I have no idea what anyone was thinking with this hodgepodge of nostalgia.
46
Crazy Stupid Love
Cheryl (ft. Tinnie Tempah)
Who the hell painted her face? They should be fired from life. And has she had an actual "good" video? Ever? I feel like every one is just bland, boring or stupid...
45
I Don't Care
Cheryl
Such as this. Which is all three.
44
Love Never Felt So Good
Michael Jackson (ft. Justin Timberlake)
Um...why the dancers? And the Justin? And the videos feeding into the "homage"? Seriously, just let people lip to the song, it's fine.
Also, I like the opening beat and then when Michael comes on it's just a bad disco number. Just saying.
43
Something Bad
Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood
Why do I have this so low? It's poorly edited, poorly styled, they couldn't even fake them being the same heigth right, it's just a visual mess (along with a musical mess but I digress).
42
Yeah
Joe Nicols
I mean I iguess I get it's a comic book date...on a sound stage...a bland sound stage...with a big ass YEAH on it...but seriously, can we not plot?
41
Fight Night
Migos
I find this a bit too on the nose for metaphors. Since it's about fxxking (as FEMM would say).
40
Spark The Fire
Gwen Stefani
....I take back everything I said back at #49. Steal away! If it prevents Line stickers from being used with a HP (and seriously HP, can we not?) as a "video concept."
And seriously, can I hear the song that starts the actual track instead?
39
Salute
Little Mix
Well, this is an easy way to throttle forward progress with your career. Crap song, horrid styling, shot through mud, looks like they were going for a "Superpower" look and failed miserably. Do you WANT people to like Fifth Harmony, LM?
38
Dare (World Cup Edit)
Shakira (ft. Carlinhos Brown)
Um...no. And I say that as a hater of the original "Dare" video. This is a poorly edited, poorly CGI-ed, poorly structured and just poor excuse of a video and Shakira knows better.
37
Hello Kitty
Avril Lavigne
I don't care if you grown and can wear what you want (I have a Hello Kitty wristband so I have less than no room to talk) and yay the Japanese liking this but I find this to be messy and annoying. And cloying. And why are we pretending to have Harajuku mommas?
I do wonder what "Complicated" Avril would think of this...
36
In Your Arms
Nico & Vinz
I find this to be a failure of plot, really. It distracts from the song and while I approve of inventive time travel it still feels useless towards the song.
35
Best Day Of My Life
American Authors
Hipsters with imaginary furries. OK...
34
Cool Kids (Version 2)
Echosmith
"Hey Echosmith, your label bought you a spot on I Heart Radio so we can increase your spins! We just have to do one thing..."
"Oh, what's that?"
"Well you know your ambiguous video set in the California redwoods?"
"Yep..."
"Well, we need to move it into a stark white room and show *airquotes* ugly kids feeling better about themselves."
"Um...why?"
"It's more commercial! And it tells kids that when they get back to school, it's cool to be you!"
"Wait, that's not even the point of the song."
"Well, it is now!"
33
Classic
MKTO
Wow, this is a useless filler to a song. Dress girls up and make them pose, it'll make them appear "classic" while guys gamble. I don't even think they get the point of their message.
32
Delicious
ToHeart
OK WooKey of Shinee, I suspect bunk beds have been out of SM's dorms for a while. SO why are we acting like two grown ass men are rooming like they are summer camp. Anyone? Anyone? SM?
31
Air Balloon
Lily Allen
Just because you can fling a camera up and down on a bungee doesn't mean you should.
30
Drunk On A Plane
Dierks Bently
And runing all the good will he earned with his Bud Light-enanced video for "I Hold On" is this FGL reject that is more on the nose than "Fight Night" or "Air Balloon." Seriously, why does this exist.
29
Gecko (Overdive)
Oliver Heldens (ft. Becky Hill)
Um...why is a squid lady attacking her husband? And why are we implying incest between the kids? And why do the dudes leave? What is what in there?
28
Our Time
Lily Allen
I liked this better when it was "22". It doesn't work for me here.
27
Summer
Calvin Harris
Considering we sorta know more now, this video lack even more. But seriously, either drag race or just show Calvin with more models than DiCaprio. Both are unneeded and neither add to the actual lyrics on the page.
26
G.U.Y.
Lady Gaga
It took me two tries to sorta figure out the plot. And a third to make sure it made sense. It doesn't but hey I gave you three more plays than this deserves. And he going after her detractors through cloning...while doing God knows what for the rest of the video (since the main plot and her dressed in Donatella Versace's wig have nothing to do with each other) is silly. Just do what Britney did and bitch about it in a club setting. Or killing paparazzi terminators.
I didn't even watch enough music videos to make a BEST list, let alone a worst. Having said that, I HAVE seen the "Hello Kitty" vid, and by god, is it horrible. The song is bad, okay, but the video is a whole new level of awful. Mein gott.
well that's a discussion I haven't seen appear when talking about Luke Bryan before 
and Summer!!!
they're like the same...
, but it's a great video imo. Cheryl's ass tattoo is still awful tho.
