| Unwritten Law "Seein' Red" Written By: Sarah Herman The first single off Unwritten Law's new album, "Seein' Red", looks like a great start for the guys. The video captures the entire essance of the song. The video is based around Scott Russo and an acress who portrays that of a struggling couple who essentially break up. And all that Scott can see is this girl in his mind. Red is a symbol of the girl and the love they probably shared. The video used great cinematography and it also included some very excellent performance numbers. It is great to see a band like them doing a video that both combines a live performance complete with fans with the real concept of a video. Most bands today are just doing performance videos, which is completely and utterly cool. But it is always nice to see a band that mixes performing with a concept showing the meaning of the song. It gives the video more live when bands include some background of the song. In the end though, the video itself is quite incredible. The video shows true emotion, which can be rare in some music videos of this day. I definately recommend that you check this video out, and see for yourself what a great band Unwritten Law truly is. Simple Plan "Just A Kid" Written By: Sarah Herman The video itself is quite comical and clever. It ties in the theme of the movie The New Guy, which was recently released since the song was the title track of the movie's soundtrack. They shot the video at a local high school in California. The video portrays the guys trying to impress the girl (Eliza Dushku, the leading acress in the movie). This video starts out with the guys gathering in front of the school, except for one of the members. Sebastian arrives in his car and proceeds to walk over to the guys when unfortunatly a school bus hits him. The other guys don't get away unharmed either. Chuck decides to show off his mechanical skills and tries to fix her car, when he accidently crosses the wires and gets electrocuted. Ouch! Then David decides to show off how great of a skateboarder he is and ends up nearly breaking his neck, when he doesn't land his trick. Jeff, who is in PE, gets in a wrestling match with a guy twice his size. He ends up getting slammed ino the mat. And of course, then we have Pierre, who decides to take one of the cameras that line the hallways and run around the school with it. He runs around the halls, singing in the camera until finally someone opens a door and he gets slammed in the face. In the end, the other guy (DJ Qualls) gets the girl. The performance sequence in the video was great and it shows that a band can still be comical and yet come across as a serious band. The weird ironic twist of the video and the song is it's actually based on being in a band and not being able to see your friends and being able to act like a normal kid. But one thing that the video did do is show what it really is to be a kid, so I guess it makes up for it. Conceptions of this video were awesome, the director did a great job catching onto each guys personality. Hopefully Simple Plan's next video will be just as great as "I'm Just A Kid" is or maybe even better. I guess we will all just have to wait and see about that. Saves The Day "Freakish" Written By: Maureen Benedict The second video they shot from Stay What You Are is really cute. While frontman Chris Conley is singing and playing piano in a bar, there are girls dancing with fuzzy muppet-like creatures. The rest of the band can be found sitting at the bar or serving tables until the very end when they go sit around the piano with Chris and the muppets and sing along. Incubus "Warning" Written By: Maureen Benedict Incubus' third video from their newest release Morning View, which shows a girl going to different places like an office building to the middle of the street. In each part they show her standing there with a grin on her face till all of a sudden she screams on the top of her lungs. Between each of her scenes it will flash to Incubus playing the song in an empty room in a big building. Simple Plan "I'd Do Anything" Written By: Maureen Benedict This video starts out with fans trying to get into a Simple Plan show and the bouncer is only letting certain people in. The bouncer kicked the bands merchboy/webdesigner Patrick Cunningham in the nuts before letting him into the show. Some young teen boys dressed like the members of the band get denied access into the show while the bouncer lets two older girls and a kid into the show. Towards the end of the song Blink 182 bassist Mark Hoppus sings with frontman Pierre Bouvier out on a bench in the junkyard. And Mark also flirts with some punk kid which is pretty cute. Throughout the video you see fans doing some crazy things in order to get into the show. It also has shows of the band playing for some fans. At the end of the video all the kids that couldn't get in charge at the bouncer and run into the show to see the guys play. The guys will be heading out on the road in April and May with fellow Canadian pop-rock singer Avril Lavigne and pop-punkers GOB. If you don't make it out to that be sure to check them out on the Van's Warped Tour. Bowling For Soup "Girl All The Bad Guys Want" Written By: Maureen Benedict The first single/video off Drunk Enough To Dance is pretty fuckin' hilarious! It starts out with a clip from an old video called "The Bitch Song" and it catches the attention of a girl walking by. The video goes through some pretty funny scenes that poke fun at nu-metal bands Staind, Limp Bizkit and Slipknot. In one part frontman Jaret Reddick is dressed as Aaron Lewis of Staind and he is writing a song about a puppy on his accoustic guitar. He is smoking and ends up dropping his cigarette on the floor which sets the room on fire and he's running around like crazy trying to put it out. Later they show him as Lewis singing on the toilet. Jaret also dresses up as rap/nu-metal singer Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit and is dancing around. Three of the guys from the band Slipknot show up and bash him over the head with a bottle. They then proceed to stomp him into the ground. New Found Glory "My Friends Over You" Written By: Sarah Herman New Found Glory's first single off the album Sticks And Stones called "My Friends Over You" produced a very entertaining video. The concept of the video was based on the band's inside jokes thay had between one another. If you watch this video you will find that there are cameos from Rancid and Brody Armstrong from The Distillers. The director of the video did an excellent job of bringing out each guy's personality. This video is a basic performance video, which is great to see from such a high-energy band like New Found Glory. Though if you have ever seen one of their live shows, then you know how much energy they put into their performances, even in their videos. And if this is the first video from them, I can't wait to see what they have in store for us next. You can catch this video streaming on all the MTV channels and on Much Music. If you haven't already checked this video out, I highly recommend you do! Something Corporate "If U C Jordan" Written By: Sarah Herman The first single off Something Corporate's debut album Leaving Through The Window, is no other than the perfect high school revenge song titled "If U C Jordan". The song encompasses everything someone would want to say to the one person that made high school worse for him or her. The video was shot in a California high school. The video starts off with Andrew (pianist/lead vocalist) sitting in class. Then they shoot to the guys running out of class and running down the hallway of the high school to this basement area where they rock out for everyone at school. The performane is high packed energy, which is no surprise since their live show is the same way. This video has been streaming on MTV2, look for it in the late evening hours around 1-6am, because MTV has a problem with playing good videos during primetime. This video can also be seen on Much Music in the primetime hours. Keep your eyes open for Something Corporate's new video for the new single "I Woke Up In A Car". I have a feeling that the new video will be as much or even bigger of a success than their first single and video. I can't wait to see what these five guys have in store for music fans in the future. |