The Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video was first presented to Duran Duran's Hungry Like the Wolf in 1984. Since then the award has gone to videos of varying quality; from Paula Abdul dancing with an animated cat to last year's winner, Lady Gaga's Bad Romance. Other notable recipients include Michael and Janet Jackson's Scream, Korn's Freak On A Leash, the David Fincher directed video for Love Is Strong by The Rolling Stones and Johnny Cash's take on Nine Inch Nails (see my post on cover songs.) This year's nominated music videos range from the surreal (Memory Tapes) to the silly (Weird Al) to the surprising (Radiohead.) Watch each vid below and judge for yourself who should take home the golden gramophone.
Yes I Know
Memory Tapes
Directed by Eric Epstein
All Is Not Lost
OK Go
Directed by Itamar Kubovy, Trish Sie & Damian Kulash Jr.
Whether you are alone by choice this V-day or you're alone because it turns out your valentine gave you VD; here are thirteen break up songs to help nurse your broken heart.
Cupid Spinerette
"Cupid don't you know that, that it's over?"
You & I Cut Off Your Hands
"You were not there for me. I just moved on. I've been moving on for so long."
Do Me a Favour Arctic Monkeys
"Do me a favour and stop flattering yourself. How to tear apart the ties that bind? Perhaps fuck off, might be too kind."
Capri Pants Bikini Kill
"I like you but baby it's all wrong."
Knives Out Radiohead
"Look into my eyes. I'm not coming back."
Breakaway Detroit Cobras
"I'll make that vow to myself. You and I are through. Nothing can change my mind. I'm sorry just won't do."
Like a Drug Queens of the Stone Age
"What can I say? I guess it wasn't meant to be. Now you're gone."
Divorce Song Liz Phair
"And the licence said you had to stick around 'til I was dead. But if you're tired of looking at my face, I guess I already am."
Gone Daddy Gone Violent Femmes
"The love is gone."
Not In Love Crystal Castles featuring Robert Smith
"And we were lovers. Now we can't be friends. Fascination ends."
Night Watch Tegan & Sara
"I've got grounds for divorce. It's in my blood this divorce. I seperate everybody. I need distance from your body."
Freebird Lynyrd Skynyrd
"Bye bye, it's been a sweet love. Though this feeling I can't change."
Don't Dream It's Over Crowded House
"They come, they come. To build a wall between us."
