The clip for Ne-Yo’s new single “Mad” isn’t quite up to the song’s level–it’s a great ballad (my second-favorite on Year of the Gentleman, an album stuffed with great songs) and merely a good video. It’s also kind of arty, not so much for the twist at the end (just guess) as for the impressionistic cutting and the basically realistic emotion on display. (That’s the song’s gift, too: a depiction of something we hear about a lot in pop songwriting, but seldom with such detail or acuity.) Plus anyone who throws a little hat-tip at the end to the greatest final shot in movies, from The Third Man, wins my heart every time. Can’t wait to see what gets cooked up when Ne-Yo finally makes the video for “So You Can Cry,” cough cough hint hint. [HT: Soulbounce]
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Is that really a hat-tip to the Third Man? That got me all excited, too, but I’m not sure I see it.
The Third Man is my favorite movie ever, so I might just be seeing it that way. (This is why I’m not a film critic.)
@Michaelangelo Matos: So have you heard that new Lloyd B-side, “Switzerland Love (Does Nothing for Me)”?
Mad. Hmm. Good song. Still on the fence about whether it is single material. I, like you, am waiting for So You Can Cry to be released as a single. That, or Single.
Matos, the Third Man is in my top five! Great minds…
if we’re going to reference movies with numerical rankings here, shouldn’t The Sixth Sense be the first to come up?
Why would a shitty movie come up before one of the greatest films of all time?