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Pop Goes the Music Diary: When a Music Video Goes Beyond the Song

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Pop Goes the Music Diary: When a Music Video Goes Beyond the Song

Remember the first time MTV aired Michael Jackson’s Thriller music video? It was a huge event that was wrapped around one of the greatest pop songs ever – but the video was even more! There was a story about a girl and a boy … who wasn’t an ordinary boy, which went on for a few minutes before launching into the great song with excellent choreography.

Well, a couple of weeks ago there was a big deal made over the new Ke$ha music video for the song ‘Blow’. Featuring James Van Der Beek, there is some pseudo-story about two people across a floor who break into a laser tag war that sees unicorns getting shot and rainbows coming out instead of blood. Yeah – pretty much the same vapid club-beat nonsense you’d expect from “Key-dollar-sign-HA”. Take a look:

Well … it is pretty clear that Ke$ha won’t be making an acting career anytime soon. To help wash the bad taste out of your mouth, let’s go back to the classic Thriller:

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