One of the most talked-about music videos around at the moment is The Maccabees’ Toothpaste Kisses. A beautifully choreographed orgy of mass kissing, it’s deemed to be seasonally pertinent because we’re in the Christmas party season, traditionally the time of year for exchanging alcohol-flavoured saliva with total strangers (so we hear, anyway... it’s not something that happens at Q’s Xmas bash - that’d be weird).
Anyway, it put us in mind of a few other videos that use gratuitous face-chewing as a visual hook…
t.A.T.u. – All The Things She Said
Easy to forget how controversial this video was when it emerged in 2002. The Russian duo weren’t really lesbians, of course, although in a string of global TV appearances they did their very best to maintain the pretence.
Sonic Youth – Sunday
In 1998 child actor Macauley Culkin was best known for his saccharine appearances in Home Alone and Richie Rich, so it was a shock to see the 17-year-old locking lips in vivid slow-motion with his fiancé Rachel Miner. The couple married shortly after, but divorced in 2000.
Bjork – All Is Full Of Love
Bjork’s abstract instruction to director Chris Cunningham was that this video should involve, “Something that's white and frozen, and then it sort of melts, because of love, and making love." What he came up with – a beautiful, techno-futurist portrayal of two robots in love - won a total of 16 industry awards, and (though Cunningham was never credited) provided the inspiration for the mechanical humanoids in Will Smith blockbuster I, Robot.
Simian Mobile Disco – The Hustler
The second, better-known version of this video involved demonic, bikini-clad women stuffing their faces with ice cream and dollar bills. The original promo (concept: lesbians on Ecstasy play Chinese Whispers) was less disturbing, but just as compelling.
Queens Of The Stone Age – Make It Wit U
The promo accompanying QOTSA’s bluesy new single is romantic enough to convince you that frontman Josh Homme might, after all, be a lover not a fighter. This recent, startling diatribe against his record label might suggest otherwise.
3:56 PM | 06/12/2007
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