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Pixie Lott leaves no cliché unturned: A masterclass in being a modern *pop* star
This video has everything the modern wannabe needs to get their video chops 'down.
As far as, I can see there are eight moves...
1) The coy, coquettish beckoning look over either shoulder, perhaps both in longer shots
2) A clompy, sassy catwalk stomp towards the camera
3) The drag of the hand from the middle of the thigh to the chest - and across - and up - and out. CAUTION: Should/ may result in ecstatic arms spread out
4) The grabbing of the head while shaking it in some happy ecstasy
5) An updated version of the Funky Chicken
6) A sort of speed skating on the spot with synchronised dancing posse
7) Turning on the spot while clapping in the manner of drunk people cutting some wedding rug
8) Moody staring from rain stained taxi window
A masterclass of the genre. Any others?
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Loving the original lyrical twist...
rhyming 'waiting' with 'anticipating'. Has this been done before ?
This is a day video, mostly
Ms Lott seems to be towards the cleaner end of the market. When you have a night video, aiming for something a bit more street, the star is to be surrounded by their rented companions of the opposite sex, clad in the fewest possible triangles of diaphanous material, to be waited on hand and foot by hot and cold running flunkies, gyrating away in the impossibly exclusive club, pointing their heavy-lidded eyes at the fourth wall with a hint that they've just had a boost in the restrooms but moments before.
I'm sure there are more but these days my video threshold is usually about two minutes.
I'm practising that lot
over the weekend. I think I need to work on number 2 but number 5 is in the bag. Pop stardom is but a moody stare away.........
I'm great at
the synchronised speed skating bit thanks to being a Talking Heads fan from 'back in the day'*.
* I hang with the kids, they do speak like this. Indeed, it's how they roll.
I'm reading you instructions, Paddy.
I'll be giving it all that.
*oof* ooh blimey.
Maybe I won't. Pixie can do her stuff. All yours, love.
And I couldn't help but notice..
Ms Lott does seem to have lots of the right things. In the right places.
Not that I want in any way to have accusations of dirty old mannery cast in my direction.
You would, though.
I mostly agree...
but she seems to be singing out of her arse.
Nice Karate Kid moment at
Nice Karate Kid moment at 1:07...
When I play this video
Google ads shows an ad for whey protein. Is this significant?
You
forget obligatory use of vocoder when the music (I use the term loosely...) breaks down, the 16 costume changes (it would chafe eventually, right?) and the use of moody man at 1:19 staring morosely at a phone that never rings.
Will she ever find happiness - it's suddenly become very important to me? Perhaps Lenny can help her out?
Ooh,
she'll be devastated that the big boys with the beards are picking on her.
I'm not picking on her
I think it is brilliant. Don't like the song, but the video is great.
I
am picking on her. It's shit. And I haven't got a beard.
Me neither...
Her music is toss.
I agree entirely, Patrick,
but I just think she's a soft target for the collective intellectual might of the Massive. It doesn't show us at our finest, does it?
Oh I don't care...
she's fair game as far as I'm concerned.
The Boy Band Stance
Pixie won't do this one because it's solely adopted by Boy Bands.
Generally employed on the more 'sensitive' numbers when the other Boy Band cliche (sitting on high stools) is deemed inappropriate.
The Boy Band Stance is invariably employed at the start of songs, pre-vocal, stage in semi-darkness.
The stance is adopted thus:
Feet apart, slightly wider than would feel natural.
Hands down by the sides. Both fists clenched, one holding a microphone.
Head tilted forwards and slightly to one side. Serious yet sensitive expression on face.
No idea who this lot are, but the lad in white is doing a fair approximation of The Stance:
I'm not 100%, but think...
...it may be the Rolling Stones... or the latest incarnation of Fairport??
A few years back........
There was a terrific strip in Viz that nailed the boy band moves and genre to a tee.......
I lasted 17 seconds
Erm, listening to the song, that is *coughs*
Picking on her? I dunno. The thread came up, I gave it a chance, thought it was really, really, really dreadful, that's it.
If she were to read this...
and feel I was picking on her, I could always write something equally disparaging about Lady Gaga (done), La Roux, Little Boots, Florence and the Machine, Duffy, Adele, Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Kate Nash, Marina and the Diamonds or Joss Stone.
Patrick.. you do realise..
You've just blown your chances of copping off with any of them? Your views are now out there, on a public forum.
Now, me, on the other hand..
Orderly queue, girls. No pushing..
To be honest I wouldn't want to cop off with any of them...
Mavis Staples on the other hand... now there's a woman.
And can I mention at this point that I have been kissed on the lips by Chaka Kahn and that it was an intensely... err... spiritual moment for me.