Music Video Review: Avril Lavigne - Hello Kitty

Well. Congratulations Avril. You've managed to give the public one of the most desperate "Cry for attention" music videos ever. This makes Not Myself Tonight look like the Do What U Want video (IE, like it never happened). The track is almost as pitiful as Avril Lavigne's sales and the video will do nothing to help that. At all.

First off the track is pitiful with it's horribly disguised sexual innuendos and cutsie metaphor for something just… Odd.. Sorry Avril but the kitty you're talking about ain't that pretty. Poor breakdown post chorus, poor lyrics, poor vocals, poor production. The video is equally as racist as the "Kawaii" track, as Avril tries to envelop herself in Japanese culture, and once more, she fails.
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Music Video Review: Demi Lovato - Neon Lights

The much anticipated video for Demi Lovato's Neon Lights dropped today, unveiling a TRON-like visual.

I generally stand by my previous review of the track, that its lacking in euphoria and originality, but its not a bad song by most measures. The visuals for the video itself are a bit too jittery, there are too many camera splices, shifting between 47 different scenes in 2.83 seconds. The still scenes themselves are a bit harsh, dark scenes combined with bright lights and a bombardment of neon colors (of course). It all combines to be a bit of a migraine to watch, and the occasional epileptic seizure.
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