Xtina Videos Rate - WINNER!!!

[vikeyeol]

Re: Xtina Videos Rate - Top 10

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#9. Beautiful

Average: 7.88
Highest Score: 10 (x1 - Jwentz)
Lowest Score: 7 (x4 - HeartSwells, Laura Vanderbooben, AlmostFamous & Vikeyeol)

The video was directed by Jonas Åkerlund and premiered on December 9, 2002. It opens with Christina speaking the line "Don't look at me", followed by scenes of her singing alone in a room inter-cut with self-image-related sequences of other people. An anorexic girl examines herself in a mirror, eventually punching through it; a thin teenage boy stands lifting weights in a room plastered with images of bodybuilders; and an African-American girl rips out pages of women's magazines including photos of only white women and throws them into a fire. In one sequence, a girl is physically bullied by several peers, and in another, a goth man sits at the back of a bus while several people get up and move. The video also touches on LGBT issues; one scene features a gay couple, portrayed by Jordan Shannon and Justin Croft, kissing on a bench and ignoring the stares of people who pass them. Another shows a transgender person, played by Robert Sherman, putting on makeup, a wig, and women's clothing.

My Thoughts: Awesome video but everything else left is better so it needed to go. I especially appreciate how it doesn't feel insincere or sickeningly emotional (as Keifer also pointed out) like most videos that go for this angle usually end up being.

What the people said:

There's no denying the song. I remember how inescapable it was. But the video never wowed me. Not that it needed to, because the song was there, and didn't beg for a massive video like Dirrty did (and my, how they counterpoint each other). It's a perfectly nice clip, though, and it has a very genuine feel to it.

Has a lot of clear deep meaning, but a bit too depressing for my liking

I am unashamed to saw the breaking of the glass gives me shivers.

Emotional without being vomit-inducing which is a hard task.

 

[vikeyeol]

Re: Xtina Videos Rate - Top 10

Can't say I have more than a passing interesting in most Xtina videos, but 'Can't Hold Us Down' is really incredible. I think she achieved the intended aesthetic perfectly.

And I just wanted to say your reveal graphics are great, vikeyeol! You've done a great job with them.

Can't Hold Us Down is amazing, should have made it much farther.

Thank you! <3

 

[K94]

Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #9

I'm still mourning its loss but Beautiful leaving is some compensation.

 

[KamikazeHeart]

Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #9

Beautiful is such a weird song for me. It was such a big song for me when it first came out, but I've grown quite numb for it (and its video) over the years.

 

[vikeyeol]

Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #9

I'm still mourning its loss but Beautiful leaving is some compensation.

I fear it's gonna be time for us to mourn again..








































































































#8. Come On Over (All I Want Is You)

Average: 7.96
Highest Score: 10 (x2 - Keifer3194 & vikeyeol)
Lowest Score: 6 (x2 - Aester & JDS)

Directed by Paul Hunter, the music video begins with Christina talking on the phone with her boyfriend, telling him to come over her house. After she hangs up the phone, the scene breaks out into her wearing a white midriff and white pants, with red streaks in her hair. In the next scene, she has loose braided pigtails, a blue midriff, and blue and white checkered pants. She is in her bedroom, when suddenly she and her backup dancers begin dancing in front of a white background. The male dancers come out, and begin dancing with the female dancers. After that, she and her then-real life boyfriend Jorge Santos dance together with her backup dancers in the scene where everyone is wearing yellow and green outfits, first in a yellow-green background followed by a yellow-orange background. The next scene is where her dancers dance on chairs in white open-faced cubes, inter-cut with her singing in a blue-walled background and a white drapery background. She and her backup dancers then dance in front of a white background. It cuts into a scene where she walks down a flight of steps in a red room, with her backup dancers on each step. They begin dancing again, and her backup dancers hold up pieces of puzzle paper that shows her face.

My Thoughts: Y'ALL DID THIS WRONG! I knew this wouldn't win but I was hoping for at least top 5. I just love how it seems like everything about the 90s in one video despite being from 2000, it's perfection and a big part of my childhood. (I realize I've said this about so many vids now, can't help that I succumbed to Legend X's impact.)

What the people said:

Fun video, a lot of fun.

Brilliant classic early 00s video – she owns it throughout particularly during the incredible middle 8.

'90s orgasm. Did they shoot this on the set of "Jumpin Jumpin"? I'm not complaining. This video just makes me so happy. I wish music videos still looked like this. It's SO Britney, but if it ain't broke...

I can't help but love everything so quintessentially 90s about this video

 

[K94]

Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #8

Bloody hell - open your eyes people! Over Fighter???

 

[Mikl C]

Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #8

Can't Hold Us Down is awful. She looks disgusting. Her not acknowledging Lil Kim is kind of hilarious though.

I should've given Come On Over a 10, it is amazing.

 

[Laura Vanderbooben]

Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #8

What?! I'm furious.

But I'll get over it.

 

[vikeyeol]

Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #8

Last one for tonight:

#7. Ain't No Other Man

Average: 8.15
Highest Score: 10 (x2 - KamikazeHeart & MrJames)
Lowest Score: 4 (x1 - Mikl C)

Throughout the music video, Christina portrays her alter ego Baby Jane. The clip jumps back in time, begins with a car with a license plate reading "Baby Jane" stopped in front of a bar in a dark street in California. In front of the bar, a man is smoking a cigarette. The scene at this time interspersed with the melody of her song "I Got Trouble", which is played as if it were on the radio with minor noise. Then, she comes out on high heels and classic outfits with a hat. After the car door is closed, the song begins, and she starts dancing with her male and female dancers while singing the song. On the first chorus, she is in a dressing room, wearing her bra and making up with the help of her dancers, and also receiving flowers from a stranger.

During the second verse, she appears in red outfits and listens to music with silver gramophone headphones. While singing the second chorus, she is in front of photographers, and she continues to sing, wearing fur encrusted with silver dress, with the scene she wears gold dress overlapping each other. Afterwards, she appears with white and black outfits and continues dancing during the chorus. At the bridge, she walks through the bar and finds her lover. After finding him, she pushes him down on the chair, then she jumps to the billiards table and continues to sing while the chandelier above her head began to explode and spark fireworks. When the chorus sounds again, she appears with silver dress and makes the bar awakened, dancing. Toward the ends, the club becomes empty, she performs "I Got Trouble" again, lying on the piano while the people in the club watch her.

My Thoughts: Great vid, sad to see it go but it's at the point where every elimination hurts a bit. Only part I don't like is the outro, otherwise Baby Jane slays.

What the people said:

She looks amazing, maybe the last moment she felt unstoppable

Reeks of star quality; lots going on, but it's fun to watch

This feels like the last song where the public gave a fuck about her. I love the art direction and look of this video, but it all feels like practice for Candyman. I was remembering this video being more interesting than it actually is.

More than does the song justice – fast-paced fun and energetic

Also just because there can be no mention of Ain't No Other Man without this masterpiece..

[video=youtube;x33PgKEgXwM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x33PgKEgXwM&feature=kp[/video]

 

[Laura Vanderbooben]

Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #7

I've never seen that "lyric video" before! Oh god, I think I may have peed.

I would have put Come On Over over Ain't No Other Man, but that's a minor quibble. Fun facts: Ain't No Other Man is Christina's only solo video to get nominated for a VMA for Video of the Year. She lost to Panic! At The Disco. (However, she does have a shared win for Lady Marmalade - her only video to win. Her videos have been nominated a total of 18 times.)

 

[BEST FICTION]

Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #7

I can't tell if I'm happy or sad with this all.

Why is Hurt still in? Why is Lady Marmalade even in the Top 10? Why is Can't Hold Us Down so low? Why do people think Fighter & Your Body don't deserve to be Top 5?

MY HOPES ARE:
6. Lady Marmalade
5. Hurt
4. Candyman
3. Fighter
2. Your Body
1. Dirrty

But I know y'all will fuck it up somehow!

 

[K94]

Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #7

I only have 9s and above but Fighter really should have gone.

 

[HeartSwells]

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Nope. Fighter is a 10/10.

 

[Mikl C]

Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #7

Fighter is her best video by far..?

 

[JDS]

Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #7

fighter for the win

 

[2014]

Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #7

Hurt is my favourite video, glad it's still in!

 

[vikeyeol]

Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #7

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#6. Hurt

Average: 8.42
Highest Score: 10 (x3 - HeartSwells, 2014 & Keifer3194)
Lowest Score: 6 (x2 - AlmostFamous & Mikl C)

The video begins with the ending instrumental of "Enter the Circus"/"Welcome", over which a carnival barker (voiced by Linda Perry) introduces a spectacular circus, and begins in black and white. The transition to color begins when Christina appears in an old-fashioned dressing room, receiving flowers and then an important telegram saying, "In respect to inform you of the death of your father on the day of 02/09/1967". A flashback then shows young Christina, played by Laci Kay, with her father, played by Timothy V. Murphy, raptured by the sight of the tightrope walker, played by Elizabeth Glassco. With her father's encouragement, she begins to train herself to do the same.

When the video switches to older Christina, we see her descending from the top of a circus tent on a rope, onto the back of an elephant, in point shoes and a structured jeweled outfit, with her father watching adoringly in the audience. She later attempts to greet him but is pulled away by fans and photographers keen to meet the star. The content of the telegram is then revealed to be a message of her father's death, and as she realizes that she was too wrapped up in her stardom to deal with what matters, she races through the circus in a belated attempt to find her father. The video ends with a shot of her sitting on a circus box, singing and crying, before fading out to her grief-stricken form on the ground outside the circus tent. The camera then zooms out and she is seen on the ground.


My Thoughts: It's gorgeous and touching but I'm glad it didn't make the top 5, not as good as her other videos.

What the people said:

Made me cry the first time I watched it. And again now. Mess.

pretty, but also boring

All eyes on me in the center of the ring. Credit where credit's due, Christina did the circus thing before the other girls. This is a pretty, pretty video (Sigismondi!). It really elevates the song, especially by portraying it as about her father instead of a lover.

Truly brilliant and got me a bit choked up by the end.

 

[vikeyeol]

Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #6

Next out is..



#5. Candyman

(this was far better quality in Photoshop *i dont understand dance.gif*)
Average: 8.53
Highest Score: 10 (x3 - Aester, BEST FICTION & vikeyeol)
Lowest Score: 7 (x3 - HeartSwells, AlmostFamous & Mikl C)

It's video is based on the 1940s World War II theme. In most of the music video, Christina dances and sings in three different hair colors: red, blonde and brown, as if she were in a singing trio, a tribute to The Andrews Sisters. In another scene, she appears as the famous biceps-flexing factory worker from Westinghouse's "We Can Do It!" poster. Finally, she appears in scenes inspired by pin-up girls Judy Garland, Betty Grable, and Rita Hayworth. The video also features product placement for Campari. Benji Schwimmer, 2006 winner of the American dancing competition So You Think You Can Dance, makes a cameo appearance as Xtina's GI dance partner. Benji's sister Lacey Schwimmer also appears in the video as a jitterbugger.Christina asked Rolston to co-direct the video with her after he worked with her for a photo shoot for the cover of Rolling Stone. Shooting the sequences of Christina as a singing trio took the longest since they had to be shot for each hair color and camera angle, which was computer-controlled for precision. Choreography was carefully arranged so that none of the versions overlapped and the takes could be spliced together. The clip's color scheme is based on Technicolor films, focusing on primary colors and bright secondary colors.

My Thoughts: aaaaand the best video from Back To Basics is gone, I'd say at least it made top 5 but it deserves to go farther than some of the vids left! It's such a fun video, it aesthetically encapsulates the era perfectly and has some of her best looks.

What the people said:

Thrilling from start to finish. Love The 3 Tinas

Fun choreography - Back To Basics Xtina is her best era, personally

PURE FUN!

This is a terrific pop video. The aesthetic, the performance, the choreography. It all just works. She looks so hot in that two-piece, too.

 

[Aester]

Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #5

Dang. "Candyman" is my favorite Christina video. It's so fun and perfect for the song. I was hoping it would sneak a win.

 

[BEST FICTION]

Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #5

Candyman is perfect. Should've been Top 4 with the rest of my 10s... But seriously, what the fuck is Lady Marmalade still doing there?

No video containing P!nk is above an 8, and that's being generous.