Idolator

"God's Gonna Cut You Down" is the most ridiculous clusterfuck of celebrity cameos ever.

feist already won the "pay off your student loans in a day" award for hers when it was used for an ipod ad. i'm pretty sure johnny is still dead. so...that narrows it down, i guess.

I'm shocked "Umbrella" didn't get a nod here. That's where my vote would've gone.

You accidentally linked to a Gap ad instead of the Feist video. Oh wait...

my vote is for johnny. i mean, when i hear "poor and the downtrodden", i always think of kanye west, too.

The Justice video reminds me of those cool and unaffordable T-shirts that sell for $40 a pop at so many hipster boutiques. The Feist is definitely the best Gap commercial that the Gap never produced.

I cannot stand Leslie Feist and her desperate attempts to pass of painfully studied "quirkiness" as avant-garde.

A female singer for the Jack Johnson set.

I don't mind some of the singles from Let It Die but "1-2-3-4" makes me want to punch something.

@dentist: that song makes me want to punch something, and also never buy an Apple product again.

Fesit wins beause it's a Gap commercial.

I think I saw like 10 seconds of that Mute Math video as a video bumper after a showing of "Made" on MTV.

Mute Math would get it, if only the Pharcyde hadn't done the same concept (though a little less frenetic) a decade ago.

@hatepaperdoll: You are so right on! A few years ago, I gave Feist a listen, based solely on the fact that she and Peaches were roomies. Ugh.
They must have made an awesome Odd Couple.

it's too bad that mutemath doesn't really have a shot at this award. it's a cool video -- almost as cool as when they did it backwards live for jimmy kimmel

1-2-3-4: isn't a ipod commercial the equivalent of appearing on oprah? that means feist for the win.

I vote for a different Fiest video. My Moon, My Man (it's slow at the beginning, but it's part of the mood). But it wasn't in an iPod commercial, so they didn't nominate it. Boo. Like it and the song a LOT better than 1234.

@OrangeAlert: first of all Feist didn't even write 1234, New Buffalo did. and second of all you should watch the interview with Feist on mtv canada explaining why she did the commercial and where a lot of the money went to-

@hatepaperdoll: She's also not very pleasant in real life. I knew her waaay back before her iPod commercial - she was dating a friend of mine at the time, who was a very well-known musician in the Canadian music scene. She was all sorts of nasty to me, for no particular reason. He ended up alienating a lot of his friends because of her, but she ended up dumping him because she felt he wasn't helping her career enough.

Also, the single-color outfits of the people in the 1234 video just always make me think they're extras from some remake of "Logan's Run" or something. Maybe I'm a weirdo that likes old movies.

Feist is dancing only about as good as I think I could dance, given some coaching. Is that good enough? I thought you needed mad moves.

In fact the more I watch of the Feist video, the less I like it? This song is kinda catchy but she has many very dreary songs as well, so what's the big deal about her? All the cutsey swaying--blech! And who are these dancing happy minions who want to carry her on their upstretched hands? Fans? No. Hired help? Yes. I don't like it. In fact it blows.

God. "Hating Feist" is apparently the new "owning a keffiyeh". A painfully oblivious way of demonstrating how painfully hip you are.

@Pope John Peeps II: I like you.

@ElleDriver: I've heard a lot of the opposite. Plus, be careful when you're saying "I knew such and such way before they were famous and they are huge jerks", because they it just sounds like you're trying to get in that you knew/know them. Not accusing you of that, but ya know. Not nice.

looking at all this back-and-forth, not to mention the Grammy nominations themselves, just makes me sad that it was just such a sucky, lackluster year for music in general.

@Pope John Peeps II: I guess it's so painful for me to be hip because of all that "oblivious" demonstrating I do, huh? Your right, I should watch that.

(in the Cash video): Sheryl Crow is looking a lot like Iggy Pop, or vice versa.

@hatepaperdoll: Haven't you heard? Politely liking everything is the new having taste of your own.

Anyway, I voted for Justice. I'm not a big fan, but that was the best video of the bunch. Yeesh, I do not envy the Jackin' Pop voters this year.

1-2-3-4.

Overexposed, yes. But still catchy, also yes.

I like that Gnarls Barkley video, but there's no way on earth they can win. That said, boy am I tired of the way Feist sings, but I can get behind the video just for the part where she first starts shaking her hips. Mmm.

The Feist song is instructive as a demonstration of what vocal effects producers are using these days to beef up a thin voice. and who gives a fuck if it's catchy, does that mean it's good art? of course it's catchy, that's why it's a commercial.

Gnarls Barkley is by far the best video on this list, for one reason-- Fight Club-inspired girl-on-bug sex.

@dog door: if thats true, then those vocal effects guys need to be fired immediately cuz that is exactly what leslie feist sounds like singing in a bar, theatre hall, or festival tent.
not sayin' you have to like it, and i couldn't give a crap about videos, just sayin'.

@PantyWaist: You mean they hired dancers to shoot a music video? Wait, GB aren't really CGI bugs? And those celebrities in the JC video are more interested in their own glory than that of the artist to whom they're paying tribute?*

We're not talking about the merits of the song itself, right? But how well the video sells the song? I think 1234 succeeds pretty well at that. She may be a shrill bitch who can't fill a whole album for all I know, but for a three minute piece of choreography and videography its pretty joyous.

(*I can picture Kid Rock screaming at his agent, "Get me a spot in that Cash video or I will fire your ass!")

I wish Dangermouse and Cee-Lo had spent time this year making new music rather than spending time making videos for their songs from 2006.

I've been fiending for some new Gnarls for a while now.

@Pope John Peeps II:

Or maybe there are just people who, you know, don't like Feist.

Wow, that Johnny Cash celebsturbation fest IS atrocious. I think Idolator should start a separate poll for whose appearance in it is most annoying. So hard to say, but I'd have to vote for the chick from Evanescence.

@DHMBIB: I'm with you.

Also, how many Gap commercials = Feist music video references can one comments section maintain?

Feist = one step up from Norah Jones

Meh, Fiest's single-camera, single-take video was better when it was on treadmills and sung/performed by OK Go.

@nutmeg: Yes, *of course* you heard the opposite. But you'll believe what you want to believe, and admonish naysayers for saying otherwise. Deluded fans of quasi-famous personalities are prone to that. I stick by with what I said, regardless.

I saw all the music vedios and they are all really good. But my personal vote would be Mute Math. Althoguh the backwards thing has been done befor, they all played with their instraments as a band playing it the right way. I thoguth it was cool and besides, they put alot of effort in it. they definatly have my vote. The Feist and D.A.N.C.E. was neat and all, but anyone can dance with colored shirts and stuff and its not alot of effort just with animated t shirts and stuff..(although they were both very good) Bresides Mute Math did it in a single take and the coriorgrophy and stuff was amazing!The gone daddy gone vedio was ummm...bad. not a good concept and the God's Gonna cut you down vedio has a guy who is singing is dead..*shrugs* and it just shows a bunch of celberties faces..that should not win because of that and beacause Jhonny Cash was a legend or something..They were all good vedios but Mute Math has it because it was cool and they put effort into it:)