Best videos of 2010 - Category: Best non-Glee High School
As we close in on the final, more specific categories of the year’s best videos, the number of videos that fit into those categories is getting smaller and smaller. Despite the fact that the dream that you’re back in high school and are completely unprepared for your finals because you’ve forgotten to attend class all semester is pretty much universal, the number of good music videos that take place there are still relatively slim.
There’s something that happens in the brain during adolescence that makes colors look brighter, food tastes better, time seems infinite and music feels like it could carry you out of the solar system. Our nostalgia for this feeling is a big factor in the success of GLEE—a show I also enjoy, though I often wish it relied less on autotune & slick, overcompressed production.
Foals - Blue Blood (taken from Total Life Forever)
Here’s a scene I’d like to see on GLEE in the new year: A freshman, bearing a strong resemblance to a young Corey Feldman or Dominic Monaghan, develops a crush on a teacher and gives her an uncomfortably intense serenade at the school talent show.
Free Energy - Bang Pop (taken from Stuck on Nothing)
GLEE’s creators flirted with the idea of taking over the school via the PA system in their Madonna-themed episode, but failed to achieve the potential blissful anarchy they could have because (1) it was a teacher who put the music on the PA in the first place and (2) there is a limited amount of anarchy you can achieve with Madonna as your soundtrack.
She & Him - In the Sun (taken from Volume Two)
Or, picture this: Zooey Deschanel guest stars on the show as a new student or something, and they come up with a flimsy plot excuse to perform this pretty much identically to how it is here.
Well, I should probably stop thinking like this. GLEE is, after all, on the same network that killed Firefly, Arrested Development and Dollhouse for being too good.
Stay in school, we’re not out yet…