April 20, 200916 yr yer i really enjoyed it could of done with a couple more fantasy scenes but put a smile on my face at least :D
April 20, 200916 yr Author Kelly Clarkson Gets Sexy Sad In 'I Do Not Hook Up' Video 'American Idol' champ shows a new side in the clip - but the ending is all too familiar. By James Montgomery Generally speaking, Kelly Clarkson videos tend to follow one of two formulas: 1. Kelly is jilted, either by a former love or a father figure, and she rebels in some form (tossing clothes out the window, haunting someone in airport bathrooms); or 2. Kelly rocks out, either in a spooky forest or on a stage somewhere, usually accompanied by her band and several flashing lights. Sometimes, she wears impossibly baggy pants. Regardless of the path they follow, all Kelly Clarkson videos tend to end the same way: badly. Kelly never gets the guy or the closure or even the satisfaction. This is all fairly uncommon in the pop universe. In fact, she may very well be the saddest pop star in the world. Now, take all that into consideration while viewing her brand-new "I Do Not Hook Up" video, the second single from her (really genuinely great) All I Ever Wanted album. Here - possibly for the first time in her career - we get to see a different Kelly. She's no longer the victim, she hasn't been jilted - she's in control, she's sexy, she's the one doing the jilting. That she's doing it all in her head is par for the course. After all, she's the saddest pop star currently working. She has a reputation to uphold. Still, whether it's because the song was originally intended for Katy Perry's album or because of director Bryan Barber's effervescent color scheme and exceedingly literal treatment (here, Kelly's opening plea of "Oh sweetheart, put that bottle down/ You've got too much talent" isn't directed at some half-in-the-bag flame, but rather a sorta-cute waiter at a highfalutin soiree), "I Do Not Hook Up" isn't your usual Clarkson fare. She tackles said waiter and shoves strawberries in his mouth. She takes a pratfall off a bar - and emerges unscathed, much to the delight of everyone. She gets to be sexy and funny and happy. It's sort of refreshing, actually. Of course, none of it actually is real, and at the clip's end, Clarkson is pretty much all alone: just another single girl on a Saturday night. Again, that's kind of sad (and it kind of makes her like the rest of us normal people too), but you get the feeling that she wants it this way. All of Clarkson's best videos - "Because of You," "Never Again," "Behind These Hazel Eyes" - have that same sweet sadness to them. It's what she does. If this were a Katy Perry video, things might be different. But it's Kelly Clarkson, and even when she's happy, she's still plenty sad. Or normal. Often, those are the same when you're talking pop stars. MTV
April 20, 200916 yr Author Kelly Clarkson Calls Romantic Fantasies in "I Do Not Hook Up" Video "Comedy at Its Finest" Kelly Clarkson's video for "I Do Not Hook Up," the second single off All I Ever Wanted, leaked this weekend before officially premiering on MTV today. Like its title suggests, the Bryan Barber-directed clip finds good-girl Clarkson fantasizing about making out with a waiter at a Wedding Crashers-esque garden party and a greaser at a karaoke pool hall - but the hot action is all in her head. Katy Perry and American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi helped pen the song, but the video concept was all Kelly, the singer tells Rolling Stone. (For much more from Clarkson, nab her Q&A in the new issue, on sale now.) Despite its potential to be the Abstinence Anthem of 2009, Clarkson admits to Rolling Stone, "It's almost like everybody reads a book and you get a different message," but "Hook Up" isn't about avoiding sex but rather finding relationships worth her time. "I am all about quality and not quantity with relationships," she says. "It's like, 'Man, if it's not gonna be a quality relationship, I don't even want to waste my time.' I hope people get that message from it." As for the video, Clarkson says, "It's not gonna promote abstinence. OK, I guess it's not not promoting it, but everyone kept sending me these treatments that were like, the obvious 'I do not hook up,' pushing guys away, and I'm like, 'Seriously?' " So Clarkson took matters into her own hands. "I wrote this whole treatment about how the girl is a good girl, she doesn't hook up. But inside her head, every time she turns around, she's fantasizing. So she's hooking up in her fantasies, but never in real life, just to make a twist on it," Clarkson says. "And it's absolutely hilarious. I mean, to see me crawling across a table, it's pretty much comedy at its finest. The girl's not really a bad girl, but in her head, she's just like this freak." Rolling Stone
April 21, 200916 yr Amazing video :lol: Made me laugh like hell - LMFAO @ her on the bar ... I love a good comedy-fall anyway, that was genius. She looks amazing :wub:
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April 21, 200916 yr LOL! Liking the vid! :D. Like Jark said, they could stop with the band peforming scenes though -_- I think I prefer it to the 'My Life' vid but it's not one of her best (nor is 'My Life''s video TBF -_- but I realise I was caught in the moment back then :heehee:)
April 22, 200916 yr It's a good video. I agree that they need to stop with the performance scenes now as they're not really unnecessary in this video and it just makes it look like they couldn't think of anything else to fill in the time with IMO. Still a cool and funny video nevertheless. :) Edited April 22, 200916 yr by Glen
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April 25, 200916 yr Just seen the video for the first time - I really like it! Her best is still 'Behind These Hazel Eyes' imo though -_-
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