Lang
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side, Fatone explained. He’s building
a “very respectable’’ music collection
“that I’m really proud of.” Carson
asked what discs Fatone picked up on
his spree to add to his respectable col
lection. Fatone replied he had bought
greatest hits albums from Journey,
Duran Duran and Queen.
So much suddenly makes sense.
The group has other reasons to cele
brate as well. On Tuesday, MTV an
nounced the nominations for this
year’s Video Music Awards. The
group’s first single, “Pop,” somehow
got a nod in the “breakthrough video”
category. The clip is packed with
computer-generated special effects,
but we’ve seen that before. Usually,
the breakthrough category is reserved
for new visions or concepts, such as
Bjork’s clip for “All is Full of Love,”
where two eerie robots are built and
then make out. Sorry, *NSYNCers,
Tron-inspired computer landscapes
created with modern technology just
aren’t a breakthrough.
Especially compared to Fatboy
Slim’s “Weapon of Choice,” which
picked up the most nominations
this year. If you haven’t seen this
clip yet, scour the Internet to see
star of stage and screen Christo
pher Walken dance, groove and
eventually soar as he tears through
an empty hotel lobby. Like Jason
Alexander and many other actors
who don’t look like Gene Kelly or
Madonna, Walken was trained in
dance during his younger years to
make himself more marketable as
an actor. Looks like the work paid
off. When the video comes on, it
makes you stop what you’re doing
and watch from start to finish no
matter how many times you’ve
seen it.
“Weapon of Choice” is another
popular and visionary success for the
I”....
king of video directors, Spike Jonze.
Along with the movie “Being John
Malkovich,” Jonze is the genius be
hind The Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage,”
which is filmed like the opening to a
1970s cop show; Weezer’s “Buddy
Holly,” in which he put the band on
stage for a concert in Arnold’s diner
from “Happy Days”; and Bjork’s “It’s
Oh So Quiet,” which ran like a scene
from a Broadway musical featuring
Bjork and crew dancing and singing
through a tire dealership.
Take a second to punch Jonze’s
name into a search engine and find a
listing of his videos. He has worked
with almost every influential band
of the past 10 years from X to Fat
boy, and he created a memorable
clip every time.
Jeremy Lang is an associate editor of the
Emerald. He can be reached at
jlang@dailyemerald.com.
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University neighborhoods seemed
unmotivated to make their way to a
nearby store and get the new album.
Freeman Corbin spent most of Tues
day afternoon basking in the sun on
the porch of his house on 13th Av
enue, even though his abode is sand
wiched between House of Records
and Face the Music, where the part
time DJ said he gets most of his music.
He had a simple reason for his
lack of movement: “ *NSYNC sucks,
from my perspective,” he said.
But Sybylla Lindert, who works
at the Sam Goody store in the Valley
River Center, said some people who
looked college-aged demonstrated
a perspective opposite to Corbin’s
and snagged a new album Tuesday.
As 7-to 11-year-olds grabbed
copies and swooned over the large
cardboard cut-outs of the group in
the store, Lindert said the number
of college students who ventured
out for the CD had been low.
“It’s mostly females who giggle a
lot and wear sandals,” she said.
Even though Face the Music had
sold 11 copies by the end of the af
ternoon, Singleton said most had
been purchased by younger girls
with temporary University identifi
cation cards, showing they were in
the residence halls for camps or oth
er activities. The first copy, she said,
went to a woman in her mid-40s.
Singleton had a theory for why
the college *NSYNC loyalists —
who she said do exist — hadn’t
come out Tuesday: Many were
probably sorority girls who had
gone home for the summer.
Student Sen. Dave Sanchez said
one of his friends had already
bought the album, so perhaps those
who did emerge to make their pur
chase made a hasty retreat to their
homes to hook up the headphones
and kill the day in pure pop bliss.
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