Cool vids to uncool music

[alias_sqbr]

ataxi pointed me towards The Coolness Index, listing the top 10 songs Last FM users are ashamed to admit they like, and I was amused by the fact that I had JUST watched two vids with songs from the top 5, and another earlier in the day. And thinking about it, catchy but uncool songs are perfect for vids which want to tell a story straight and get under your skin, and poke fun of themselves at the same time, which is one of my favourite types of vid.

So, a list of cool vids with horribly uncool music :D

• Lady Gaga Poker Face by talitha78. Star Trek XI, great Spock-centric Kirk/Spock
  
• Britney Spears, Womanizer by ImaginarySanity. Star Trek:TOS. Kirk is a womanizer. Not glorious but pretty good.
  
• Katy Perry, I kissed a girl by bop-radar. Smallville "Clark experiments with heterosexuality". Hilarious.
  
• Lady Gaga, Just Dance by Shoopdancer, multifandom. Just dancing :)
  
• Britney Spears, Circus by butterfly. Star Trek XI, Kirk's a "put on a show" kind of girl.
  
• Britney Spears, Piece of Me by obsessive24. "The life and times of Britney Spears", remarkably effective.
  
• Rihanna, Disturbia by xCraZy18gurlx. Final Fantasy XII, Balthier/Fran. Ok, this is a total cheesey guilty pleasure but enjoyable for what it is :)
  
• Lady Gaga, Paparazzi
  
• Lady Gaga, Lovegame
  

Anyone got vids recs for the other songs? EDIT: See comments for some more alternatives.

I'm pretty sure I've seen a "Womanizer" vid for a fandom I'm not in at some point. EDIT: Found it:Akanishi Jin fanvid. Don't really like it that much, though the syncing of one pop star's dances to another's song was fairly well done.

Comments

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

I thought I'd seen a new Kirk Womanizer vid.

lol

[elaran.livejournal.com]

Oh look, most of my playlist! :P

I'm pretty sure there was another awesome fanvid to womanizer... I thought I'm bookmarked it but it's not on my del.icio.us.

[par-avion.livejournal.com]

Just Dance:

FatedCinderalla: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sy1mOBG75U
http://solanyxe.livejournal.com/13027.html
http://community.livejournal.com/spnvidrecs/39531.html

And none of these were the vid I was looking for. Heh.

Found it! Multifandom by shoopdancer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDn0T9Jc8TI&feature=channel_page

Re: lol

[par-avion.livejournal.com]

Doctor Horrible: http://community.livejournal.com/pulltheplug_tk/16844.html ?

Smallville: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeI8iRn5b64

[alias_sqbr]

Oh I like that last one.

[alias_sqbr]

From what I can see from my search and the comments below it's a popular song :)

Re: lol

[alias_sqbr]

Luckily I like you despite you intense uncoolness :)

[(Anonymous)]

Hello~

Sorry to barge in on your journal here, but I stumbled upon you via Google. I made the "Womanizer" video you mentioned at the end of your entry.

Even though you said you didn't like it that much, I want to thank you for actually noticing and commenting on the timing. Most people who watch the videos I make are more concerned about the boys in the video than the actual quality of the video itself. It's nice to know that someone, even if they aren't in the fandom, is paying attention to the timing. :D

[alias_sqbr]

It probably helps that I don't know who the boys are :) (Though that also means I missed all the significance to your vid, I'm sure it's a lot more meaningful to people in the fandom)

I'm glad you are taking the silver-lining approach to my comment, I've never accidentally googled onto someone saying not-entirely-positive things about me or my stuff but I don't think I'd like it! And I do think it's a well made vid, I think the "me not liking it" is more to do with me having no interest in the subject than any flaws in the vid.

[(Anonymous)]

This is the first time I've come across my work in this type of situation. lol. I posted download links because someone wanted them, so I Google the video every now and then to make sure no one is stealing it. *nod*

I was a bit put-off a bit at first reading that, but then I thought about it from a non-fan point of view, so I didn't let it get to me. You commented on the video from an artist point of view, rather than a fan, if I can put it into those terms. :3

[alias_sqbr]

This is the third time I've had someone randomly google onto me saying less-than-flattering things about their work, though luckily it's never happened with anything I hated. You were the most gracious :)