Monday, July 16, 2012

Carly Rae Jepsen - "Call Me Maybe"

It’s a blistering summer day in Carly Rae Jepsen’s neighborhood. She is staring out her window, spying on the sexy neighbor boy as he mows the grass in his backyard. It’s too hot for clothes; he slowly removes his shirt, causing her to fan herself with a romance novel. He catches her gawking so she ducks underneath the window and crawls away. In the next scene, the sexy neighbor boy is doing work on his car in the driveway. A pigtailed Carly Rae is convinced by two of her band members to wash her car whilst she is wearing a white tanktop, shorts, and heels. She flails all over her sudsy, wet car hoping to catch his eye, but he doesn’t notice her. While attempting a particularly difficult dance move/sexy pose, she falls off her car and knocks herself unconscious. She dreams that she and the sexy neighbor boy are on the cover of a romance novel (aptly titled “Call Me Maybe” and written by author “C. R. Jepsen”). She wakes up to the sexy neighbor boy standing over her, and he helps her to her feet. Obviously ecstatic and ready for more attention, Carly Rae performs in her garage with her band while the sexy neighbor boy watches. Before she can finish writing down her phone number for him in hopes that he will maybe, just maybe, call her, he hands his phone number to her male band member and mouths, “Call me!”



Thursday, June 28, 2012

*NSYNC - "Bye Bye Bye"

The members of *NSYNC slowly descend onto the screen, framed by a puppet theater and attached to strings as though they are marionettes. The camera pans up, revealing a girl who is amusedly manipulating the strings to make the boys perform some coordinated dance moves. As the vocals begin, the puppet master cuts Chris’ and Joey’s strings, and the scene changes to blue sky as they fall through the air. They land on top of a moving train, look back to see the female puppet master chasing them, and run for their lives. They take refuge in the train and disguise themselves amongst the passengers. We then see the puppet master cut Justin’s strings, and he lands in a dark and mysterious warehouse. He gives the camera a chuckle, does a barrel roll under a raised gate, and runs away from the girl and her two giant dogs out into the rainy night. Finally, the puppet master cuts Lance’s and JC’s strings, and the two boys land in a fancy red sports car. The girl is not far behind in her matching fancy silver sports car, but they are able to outmaneuver her and get away. This narrative is interspersed with short clips of all five boys doing synchronized dance moves in a small room - sometimes upside-down, and sometimes sideways.