I was just watching t.v., looking for some inspiration and, luckily, I found it. I stumbled across the video for the song “Stupid” by Girlicious (not to be confused with “Stupid Girls” or “Stupid Girl”; this song is totally different). I was immediately struck by how well choreographed the video was. The girls were all gyrating like high class “exotic dancers” as opposed to the cheap-stripper-like motions of, say, Christina Aguilera.
The next thing that caught my attention was the costumes. Clearly the wardrobe department spent a lot of time ensuring that the girls plaid mini-skirts were just short enough that their underwear was easily exposed every-time they thrust their buttocks back. And speaking of buttocks, these young ladies are in very good shape. I can only assume that they have some expert teaching them how to binge and purge properly in order to maintain their emaciated figures.
I would be remiss if I neglected to point out the brilliant vision of the director of this video. His idea to start out with the scantily clad girls “dancing” in the street and on a car, then getting a large group of girls together and having them all strip down to their bras and panties before moving the four stars into a bedroom where they would continue to “dance”; really showed his genius. Then ending the video with the girls jumping on a bed having a pillow fight; now that was truly awe inspiring. This video really moved (certain parts of) me. In fact the video was so well done that it was only until after I had, um…calmed down that I realized I didn’t even notice the music or the lyrics. Which is good, because who needs that sort of stuff distracting you when you’re trying to enjoy a video like this.
Okay, so after I wrote this I went and looked for the video online. Apparently it’s actually called “Stupid Sh*t”; not that it changes my opinion in any way. I guess I must be kind of tired out though, because watching the video again less than 20 minutes after the first time I just wasn’t…moved in the same way. Maybe later.
There is a line in the movie “Pulp Fiction”, spoken by John Travolta’s character Vincent Vega; “They’ve got the same sh*t over there that we do, it’s just that over there it’s a little different.” I had occasion recently to travel down from Alberta into the U.S.A. and that is pretty much what I was thinking a lot of the time. For the most part I knew which differences to expect and yet they still surprised me a bit.
Well, you can clearly see what I have been doing for the past several days. That’s right, I’ve been riding