3 hours of MTV IV

Even the videos from the vault are repeated on MTV, hence the return showing for Parklife, All Rise, Bohemian Like You, Groovejet and Let Forever Be this week.

Even the videos from the vault are repeated on MTV, hence the return showing for Parklife, All Rise, Bohemian Like You, Groovejet and Let Forever Be this week.

Dido - Don't leave home again

Black Eyed Peas - Hey Mama again

Usher again

George Michael again

D12 again

Natasha Bedingfield again

The Darkness again

Liberty X must be given points for their willingness to a) release a bootleg as a single (admittedly the year after Sugababes' Freak Like Me) and b) appear in the video for Being Nobody as inspectors of their own conveyor belt of soulless pop. Featuring the real actual Pop Trash-heap!

N.E.R.D. again

Beyonce - Naughty Girl again

The video for Alanis's new track, Everything, seems to be trying to beat the record for most pointless visual effects ever. The song is much as you'd imagine. She has a haircut now.

Robbie Williams again

The Rasmus again

Keane again

The Streets again

Blue again

Alicia Keys again

Britney again

Clash of the sauce titans! In this corner, Beyonce, capable of writhing around in a chain-mail bikini at the drop of a hat! In the other corner, Sean Paul, incapable of not having a girl wirthing around him even while claiming his undying lurve. The winner is the piano that stomps all through the Baby Boy.

Christina Milian again

It is a good thing that in this day in and age, we can watch an all-black version of Smokey and the Bandit where the hero's goal is to haul hotties cross-country to black up some redneck country fans... well, some of it is a good idea, and the only man for the job is pre-bandaid Nelly, in the video for Ride Wit Me.

Sugababes - In The Middle again

Radiohead featuring Redman! Well tragically not, but until that day comes, here's Christina Aguilera, with DIRRTY. It has motorbikes, it has female boxing, it has break dancers. But most importantly it has Redman clobbering a bloke in a bunny suit. A video, and a song, that is impossible not to enjoy.

The Streets again

Outkast again

Maroon 5 - This Love again

The Black Eyed Peas - Hey Mama again

Can't Stop is the Chili Peppers video "inspired by the one-minute scultpures of Erwin Wurm", and to be honest it'll be hard to top. Nothing to do with the subject of the song (whatever it is), just a series of fantastic images - With Household Objects! Though a shot at the end reminds us that Flea is basically just funny looking by himself.

Snow Patrol again

The Darkness again

I can imagine the meeting where an up-and-coming video director is talking to Madonna (and/or her people) and says "Yes, I've heard Frozen a couple of times, nice little tune. I have just three words for you: Goth. As. Fuck." Apart from the bit where there's a ray of light DO YOU SEE?

Beyonce - Naughty Girl again

It seems to be a pattern that whenever I hear a song I like on the radio and I don't know who it's by, it's by the Sugababes. And Too Lost In You is no exception. The video makes it clear that it's from the Motion Picture Love, Actually, but the clips it shows only really have a heft if you've seen the film, reducing this fine song to a tie-in. The difference between "you may also like..." and "You will remember..."

Eamon again

Blur again

Usher again

Maroon 5 - Harder To Breathe again

Dido - Don't Leave Home again

D12 again

Fefe Dobson again

Haha Chris Martin looks much younger with hair, even if it's coldly plastered down as in Yellow. All I remember from the video is him walking along a beach. It turns out there isn't really anything more.

The Rasmus again

Amy Studt again

Natasha Bedingfield again

Britney again

What an astonishingly confused video for No Doubt's Don't Speak. Adam in the Garden, jump-around concert footage (though not to this song, surely) then a photo shoot. I suppose it's about how this is the raw No Doubt, and don't worry kids, they won't sell out. Well that worked out fine. Also the song goes on forever.

Sugababes - In The Middle again

Blink 182 again

Outkast again

N.E.R.D. again

The Darkness again

Unwanted information no 3: the "I like to party, everybody does" song is by Oliver Cheatham and Room 5. The video looks like it's made in Flash, which you'd think would be interesting. If you'd never seen Flash.

Christina Milian again

Beyonce - Naughty Girl again Posted by andrew at April 26, 2004 4:39 PM