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“With Love”

Hilary Duff

www.hilaryduff.com

Hilary Duff has grown up quickly but her character exhibits a lot of class in this perfume commercial converted into a music video for her current hit. Duff roams an opulent hotel with her hopeful swain in pursuit. Must be her scent. Along the way, amid several entertaining costume changes, Duff mysteriously approaches an older man (he’s gray and balding and the shot is from behind him) and gives him her hat. A coy token of her affection, perhaps? Ultimately, lust seems to give way to annihilation with an elevator in free fall (when will these old hotels upgrade their duff equipment?). The video ends with the usual tease, “to be continued.”

“My Moon, My Man”

Feist

www.listentofeist.com

Canadian singer-songwriter Feist’s song and video is a feast for the ears and eyes. The choreographed routine takes place on an airport’s moving sidewalk and is akin to Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire or Donald O’Connor making props out of the most unlikely material available. The entire video becomes a daydream in which briefcases and paper fly in slow motion and strangers’ movements are coordinated to her own. Unlike OK Go’s popular treadmill video, “Here It Goes Again,” this one is multi-leveled with shifting fantasies; notice the high-contrast lighting on the choruses. The song, in which both the man and the moon “shed some light on [her],” is equally impressive with her close harmonies at the end and a terrifically brittle guitar playing the melody. Click “Videos” to access.

“Must Be the Moon”

!!!

warprecords.imeem.com/video/xoDdo40p/must_be_the_moon/

Brit disco hanging on a single chord serves as a hypnotic track

to this video of a party in which echoes of Santeria, voodoo

and occult ritual dominate.

!!! (pronounced “chk, chk, chk”) performs for a tribal gathering of the colorfully attired and suitably spaced.

“Angry Young Man”

Billy Boy on Poison

billyboyonpoison.musicnation.com

Instead of taking a sweet young thing to the high school prom, David LeDuke, lead singer of Billy Boy on Poison, hijacks her, dragging her along to a gig. Mom and Dad haven’t a clue. Great fun for all. They may still be teenagers, but the members of Billy Boy on Poison have absorbed enough of the mascara and bourbon quality of glam and slam-bam-boom of Brit pop to compete against bands many years their senior. The refrain, “Every nice young girl needs an angry young man,” is as catchy as it gets.

“Words to My Song”

Dry Bread

www.myspace.com/thenumerogroup

The soul and funk stylings of the Bahamas during the ‘70s have nearly been a lost tradition -- consigned to rare-vinyl shops dealing in imported singles. Thanks to the Numero Group and a new release, “Grand Bahama Goombay” (part of the label’s Cult Cargo series), the recordings of acts such as the Mustangs and the many musical avenues of Jay Mitchell have been unearthed. “Words to my Song,” created on the spot in the studio, is one of the better tracks, highlighting Cyril “Dry Bread” Ferguson and some inventive drumming from Ebo.

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