The Return of the Pop Video

Taylor Swift's video for her fantastic single "You Belong to Me" was released yesterday, and it is one of the best videos I've seen in a long time. It has a plot and drama and a happy ending! The plot is very high school cliche, but Taylor is just so darn cute with her Junior Jewels t-shirt and big glasses. Adorable. The end of the video made me so happy. You get invested in the storyline surprisingly quickly. Great song, great video. Well done, Tay Tay!

New Music!

Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)
Light as air fluffy pop ditty that I've grown to like more since the video came out. It's a decent video, not as good as the Just Dance and Poker Face videos though. I love her yellow flower dress though and the white outfit she wears when she's on the motorcycle. Also, her hairstyles are awesome (especially when she wears the yellow dress). Cute GaGa, very cute.



Just Can't Get Enough-The Saturdays
Fun, super poppy, and fluffy cover of Depeche Mode's classic Just Can't Get Enough. The video is their best yet even though it gets a little repetitive after awhile. Nice costumes. I'm really starting to love these gals.



Taylor Swift-Fifteen
Very pretty and moving song. I love how Taylor Swift is this huge star but then her songs are so intimate and her lyrics so specific. She's a great storyteller. Her performance with Miley Cyrus of this song at the Grammy's was a great moment even though Miley over sang it. The perfect song for them to sing.

Tidbits

-Emily Blunt (the sharp-tongued Emily in the Devil Wears Prada), one of my favorite young actresses, is dating Jon Krasinski of The Office. I'm so happy for them. Both of them are simply amazing.

-Taylor Swift's album, Fearless, topped the charts this week. Congrats, Taylor!

-Russian popstar Sergey performed a super colorful, deliciously poppy live cover of Erasure's Love to Hate You at this Latvian concert thing a few months ago. I LOVE his purple tank top! The choreography is also amazingly late 90's/early 00's!! Also, I love his expressions. He's so campy and pop. I love it.

Sergey Lazarev Covers "Love To Hate You" by Erasure from EQ Video on Vimeo.

My Two New Interests

1) The amazingness that is CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. Now I've watched Mr. Cooper before and appreciated his talent and divine weave, but watching him on Election Night was absolutely delightful. He was smart, aware, and funny. Well done my Silver Fox.

2) Taylor Swift. I know, I know, she is country and I don't like country. I tried to get into it when I was younger: I bought a Kenny Chesney CD, but who was I kidding? I was making myself like it. Carrie Underwood, Shania, and Faith are good though, but they are more pop-country than country-pop. Anyways, Taylor Swift's songs are just really pretty and the melodies are pleasing. I like her voice too. I disliked Teardrops on My Guitar from her last album, but quite liked Our Song. Her new album, Fearless, came out on Tuesday, and I'm liking a lot of the songs. Her songs are very soothing and comforting. The lyrics are also quite good too, sometimes cliche, but sometimes very sweet and specific. She really knows how to sing a song and what to emphasize. That was my spiel.