Kesha, Spears, Gaga continue trend of bright colors, symbolism
"Born This Way"Lady Gaga
"Hold It Against Me"
Britney Spears
At one point Britney Spears was on top in the pop world. She's slipped a bit over the years but don't hold it against her. Her more recent music has stabilized her career and her hair has grown back, unless that's a wig. In her new video for her single "Hold It Against Me," Britney crashes to Earth in the year 2011 and right into a photo shoot. She then floats around in a white wedding dress with the longest train you've ever seen surrounded by televisions showing clips from videos throughout her career. From her train, faceless dancers emerge wearing all white. The entire video is a compilation of several scenes broken up by one another, with the director managing to fit a good number of frames into the four-and-a-half-minute video. When the music breaks down, the video flashes between scenes of Britney and her back up dancers, an array of colorful paint shooting from her nails onto the white dress and the screens surrounding her. The sequence creates a colorful paradise, and shows Britney in a fight with a clone of herself. The video's grand finale consists of Britney and her dancers dressed in black on a stage equipped with pyrotechnics, confetti and an explosion of greatness.
"Blow"
Ke$ha
This place about to blow, at least according to Kesha in the video for her single "Blow," and how could it not when you're having a sophisticated party full of people with unicorn heads. Kesha is known for her party and club hits and "Blow" is no exception. When former Dawson's Creek actor, James Van Der Beek shows up at her party, he and Kesha have a battle equipped with laser guns that make the people with unicorn heads spew rainbow light when hit. After plenty of silly fighting antics between the two, Kesha wins the fight against her arch-nemesis. He attempts to call a truce, but she has no pity. The video ends with Kesha having a good laugh with her human-unicorn hybrid friends while James Van Der Beek's head is mounted in the background with a name plate underneath reading, "James Van Der Dead." Don't worry though, no mythical creatures were harmed in the making of this video.
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