Xtina Videos Rate - WINNER!!!
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Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #5
Yes, but Xtina's bit isn't the entire video. P!nk & Mya bring down it's score enough to not deserve a Top 10 spot.
Yes, but Xtina's bit isn't the entire video. P!nk & Mya bring down it's score enough to not deserve a Top 10 spot.
Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #5
I'll say Mya is the only one that underperforms a lil but she's still great. Pink is great in it!
I'll say Mya is the only one that underperforms a lil but she's still great. Pink is great in it!
Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #5
Missing out on the top 3 is...
*BEST FICTION REJOICE*
#4. Lady Marmalade
Average: 8.92
Highest Score: 10 (x3 - Jwentz, MrJames & Keifer3194)
Lowest Score: 7 (x1 - Mikl C)
The music video, directed by Paul Hunter, features all four performers in lingerie (rapper Missy Elliott makes a couple of small appearances) and was filmed at the end of March 2001 on sets (Los Angeles) built to resemble the actual Moulin Rouge night club around the turn of the century (1890–1910). The video won the MTV Video Music Award for "Best Video of the Year" and "Best Video from a Film".
My Thoughts: The video is as amazing as the song but I'm glad it didn't make the top 3, would have felt wrong when she isn't even the lead artist and better videos have already left.
What the people said:
Missing out on the top 3 is...
*BEST FICTION REJOICE*
#4. Lady Marmalade
Average: 8.92
Highest Score: 10 (x3 - Jwentz, MrJames & Keifer3194)
Lowest Score: 7 (x1 - Mikl C)
The music video, directed by Paul Hunter, features all four performers in lingerie (rapper Missy Elliott makes a couple of small appearances) and was filmed at the end of March 2001 on sets (Los Angeles) built to resemble the actual Moulin Rouge night club around the turn of the century (1890–1910). The video won the MTV Video Music Award for "Best Video of the Year" and "Best Video from a Film".
My Thoughts: The video is as amazing as the song but I'm glad it didn't make the top 3, would have felt wrong when she isn't even the lead artist and better videos have already left.
What the people said:
Keifer3194 said:
Jwentz said:
2014 said:
Laura Vanderbooben said:
2014
Staff member
Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #4
YES. Should've been like #11 or something, but finally.
All my 10s in the Top 3, naturally.
YES. Should've been like #11 or something, but finally.
All my 10s in the Top 3, naturally.
Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #4
Dirrty shouldn't be in the top 5. Your Body to win!
Dirrty shouldn't be in the top 5. Your Body to win!
Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #4
Will it be a Stripped Showdown or will Your Body prevail?
#3. Your Body
Average: 9.11
Highest Score: 10 (x6 - KamikazeHeart, HeartSwells, BEST FICTION, MrJames, Keifer3194 & vikeyeol)
Lowest Score: 7 (x2 - AlmostFamous & 2014)
The video starts with a warning saying "no men were harmed in the making of this video". In the clip, Christina plays a killer who kills men after seducing them. She goes on a ride with the first man, seduces him then blows up his car in electric-pink flames. Next, she goes to a bar and seduces the second man in a bathroom stall, where she bludgeons him to death, leaving spatters of blue paint dripping from the walls. Finally, she uses a bat to kill the last man, "showering the room in a mist of red confetti". The video features several cultural influences, including the old NES Advantage, the psychic site Oranum.com, and short films featuring American actress Lucille Ball.
My Thoughts: Noooooooo! This deserved top 2, would have even been a worthy winner. It's incredible, a complete return to form and I'm still upset this wasn't the biggest smash of the year. She looks amazing and the video had an awesome concept that was executed perfectly.
What the people said:
Our final 2 cut it close, which are you rooting for?
Will it be a Stripped Showdown or will Your Body prevail?
#3. Your Body
Average: 9.11
Highest Score: 10 (x6 - KamikazeHeart, HeartSwells, BEST FICTION, MrJames, Keifer3194 & vikeyeol)
Lowest Score: 7 (x2 - AlmostFamous & 2014)
The video starts with a warning saying "no men were harmed in the making of this video". In the clip, Christina plays a killer who kills men after seducing them. She goes on a ride with the first man, seduces him then blows up his car in electric-pink flames. Next, she goes to a bar and seduces the second man in a bathroom stall, where she bludgeons him to death, leaving spatters of blue paint dripping from the walls. Finally, she uses a bat to kill the last man, "showering the room in a mist of red confetti". The video features several cultural influences, including the old NES Advantage, the psychic site Oranum.com, and short films featuring American actress Lucille Ball.
My Thoughts: Noooooooo! This deserved top 2, would have even been a worthy winner. It's incredible, a complete return to form and I'm still upset this wasn't the biggest smash of the year. She looks amazing and the video had an awesome concept that was executed perfectly.
What the people said:
Keifer3194 said:
2014 said:
Laura Vanderbooben said:
Jwentz said:
Our final 2 cut it close, which are you rooting for?
Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #3
I'm rooting for Dirrty, but any of the Top 3 would be an amazing winner in my book.
I'm rooting for Dirrty, but any of the Top 3 would be an amazing winner in my book.
Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #3
Good placement for Your Body. One of her best but not the pinnacle. I hope Dirrty takes it.
Good placement for Your Body. One of her best but not the pinnacle. I hope Dirrty takes it.
Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #3
I've always thought of 'Lady Marmalade' as a vehicle for Christina's transition into Stripped. And she steals the video so easily. Her entrance is incredible. I've always loved her outfits too and the hair is crazy in the best way.
'Your Body' really did mark a return to form. So many great scenes, and, of course, her facial expressions. I think they really nailed the aesthetic here; the tanning scene is the highlight. Such a shame it wasn't a bigger hit.
'Fighter' would be my winner, but I doubt that'll happen. I really love everything about it. 'Dirrty' is decent, but the set-ups and palettes in 'Fighter' edge it for me.
I've always thought of 'Lady Marmalade' as a vehicle for Christina's transition into Stripped. And she steals the video so easily. Her entrance is incredible. I've always loved her outfits too and the hair is crazy in the best way.
'Your Body' really did mark a return to form. So many great scenes, and, of course, her facial expressions. I think they really nailed the aesthetic here; the tanning scene is the highlight. Such a shame it wasn't a bigger hit.
'Fighter' would be my winner, but I doubt that'll happen. I really love everything about it. 'Dirrty' is decent, but the set-ups and palettes in 'Fighter' edge it for me.
Re: Xtina Videos Rate - #3
Time for the finale!
Will it be Dirrty?
Will it be Fighter?
Will it be both?
Will it be neither?
Will you ever have to stop scrolling down to find out?
The winner is -
#1.
Average: N/A
Highest Score: N/A
Lowest Score: N/A
Oh mother/dear, uploaded the wrong file, hold on.
Let's try this again.
#1. Ehm... both?
Average: 9.346154
Highest Scores: ???
Lowest Scores: ???
No, this isn't a joke. Yes, the one place in the rate we don't want a tie is where we get it! Of course we can't let it end like that, ties are meant to be broken, so how should we settle this?
Perhaps Rock-Paper-Scissors?
No? Arm wrestling?
Maybe a coin flip?
No?! I'm running out of ideas here..fire making challenge?
[video=youtube;HLxvCsh9HR4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLxvCsh9HR4[/video]
Still no? Okay, I know it should be more epic for the final 2..... A GLADIATOR BATTLE!
Even more epic? Alrighty.
No again?! I guess we can just let an expert decide...
"Two beautiful, young videos stand before me.... but I only have one screencap in my hands."
We actually wanted Naomi but she was busy getting actual work..
Let's just get it over with Eurovision style with which got the most 12s (or 10s in this case).
The winner finally is.................
#1. Dirrty
Average: 9.34
Highest Score: 10 (x8 - Laura Vanderbooben, AlmostFamous, BEST FICTION, Jwentz, MrJames, Keifer3194, Mikl C & vikeyeol)
Lowest Score 8 (x3 - HeartSwells, Aester & JDS)
The music video was directed by David LaChapelle. It was filmed between September 8–9, 2002 in Los Angeles, at an abandoned newspaper print building. Christina took boxing lessons to prepare for the video, and more than 100 dancers were auditioned for the filming. According to Christina, the director was a genius and she had wanted to work with him for a long time. She also wanted to make sure that she and LaChapelle had the same vision and to not make anything glossy or pretty. The first day, it was filmed the scene where Xtina is lowered in a cage into a boxing ring, and a dance segment in the ring. The following day, the filming team filmed a foxy boxing scene, a table dancing segment, a party scene with Redman's rapping his part, and finished with filming a shower scene. It premiered on September 30, 2002 on Making the Video, and was described as "a post-apocalyptic orgy". According to director LaChapelle, the concept of the video was:
"The concept of the video is, the song is called "Dirrty", and it's every connotation of that word, dirty, I think this is a loose on dirty clubs, underground, so it's everything, we have plushies, we have crazy, absurd, subversive things going on. Seeing "Dirrty" you will have some good time. It's kind of place your parents don't want you to go to. It represents all the underground, dirty things and strange, dark places".
The video opens with Xtina gearing up and riding a motorcycle into a nightclub. Wearing a bikini and chaps, she is lowered from a cage into a boxing ring and dances, accompanied by several back-up dancers. A masked woman is lowered into the ring, and the two engage in foxy boxing. The scene is intercut with sequences of her dancing in a crop top, which she later removes to reveal a bikini top, and a microskirt. Redman then proceeds down a hallway, passing people such as mud wrestlers, a contortionist, and furries. The video proceeds to a scene of her and back-up dancers splashing and dancing while being sprayed with water in a room containing several urinals, as a possible reference to urolagnia.
My Thoughts: YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! Popjustice. I was hoping this would win and got so nervous as the votes were coming in and it went back and forth with Fighter until they finally reached a tie. It's one of my favorite videos ever. The real transformation from innocent pop princess to scandalous sex siren - I'm A Slave 4 U, We Can't Stop, Satan possessing Rihanna in Umbrella, etc. can take several seats. It's so sleazy yet so stunning, literally everything about it is incredible and it's obviously a worthy winner.
What the people said:
Obviously that means the runner-up is Fighter. Sorry, Fighter!
#2. Fighter
Average: 9.34
Highest Score: 10 (x6 - HeartSwells, JDS, AlmostFamous, BEST FICTION, MrJames & Mikl C)
Lowest Score: 7 (x1 - vikeyeol)
The music video was directed by Floria Sigismondi, who revealed that it would display Christina "like I don't think she's been portrayed before". The video was filmed in Los Angeles, California and was inspired by the director's signature dark theatrics and the life circle of moths. Sigismondi explained the theme and plot of the clip to MTV News -
"The song is sort of about transformation, so I took that in a nature kind of way, the way nature deals with transformation. It's basically about coming from a very poisoned place to an empowerment, a place of strength. I've always had this fear of moths, and I subconsciously wrote this thing with these moths in it, so I guess I have to deal with it. They're furry and they carry dust. I found out in old mythology they are supposed to represent the soul. I think that's very appropriate".
The video begins with Xtina wearing a black velvet kimono, with a pale complexion and long black hair, refers to a larva. Three pins are lodged in her back, making her hunch. Initially, she is trapped in a glass box, and her kimono is billowing like a balloon. Three Gothic ballerinas eat fruit and then collapse. Xtina then breaks free from the box by pounding on it until it breaks. She tosses aside her kimono after furiously removing the pins on her back and throwing them away. A tattered, white, moth-covered dress is revealed, symbolizing her metaphoric evolution from the larva to a pupa. In addition, her hair becomes white, and moths fly around her. Near the end, Xtina wears an Elvira-type spider dress, again proclaiming that she is a "fighter".
My Thoughts: I never really loved this nearly as much as Your Body or Dirrty; don't get me wrong, it's a great piece in her videography but I've never been completely enamored with it, so I'm glad it didn't win. I give her majorrrrr props for working with real moths. I'm deathly scared of them (all insects, arachnids..basically if it has more than 4 legs it can fuck off) so I remember my skin crawling when I saw in the making of the video that they had real ones squirming and fluttering on her, I would have literally died. It has a fantastic aesthetic and was a new direction but I don't think it was executed as well as it could have been. It's admirable that she went for this type of video though instead of making another one like Beautiful which most artists would do for a song like this. If you wanted this to win don't crucify me, get the others for not giving it more 10s!
What the people said:
SAY!
Time for the finale!
Will it be Dirrty?
Will it be Fighter?
Will it be both?
Will it be neither?
Will you ever have to stop scrolling down to find out?
The winner is -
#1.
Average: N/A
Highest Score: N/A
Lowest Score: N/A
Oh mother/dear, uploaded the wrong file, hold on.
Let's try this again.
#1. Ehm... both?
Average: 9.346154
Highest Scores: ???
Lowest Scores: ???
No, this isn't a joke. Yes, the one place in the rate we don't want a tie is where we get it! Of course we can't let it end like that, ties are meant to be broken, so how should we settle this?
Perhaps Rock-Paper-Scissors?
No? Arm wrestling?
Maybe a coin flip?
No?! I'm running out of ideas here..fire making challenge?
[video=youtube;HLxvCsh9HR4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLxvCsh9HR4[/video]
Still no? Okay, I know it should be more epic for the final 2..... A GLADIATOR BATTLE!
Even more epic? Alrighty.
No again?! I guess we can just let an expert decide...
"Two beautiful, young videos stand before me.... but I only have one screencap in my hands."
We actually wanted Naomi but she was busy getting actual work..
Let's just get it over with Eurovision style with which got the most 12s (or 10s in this case).
The winner finally is.................
#1. Dirrty
Average: 9.34
Highest Score: 10 (x8 - Laura Vanderbooben, AlmostFamous, BEST FICTION, Jwentz, MrJames, Keifer3194, Mikl C & vikeyeol)
Lowest Score 8 (x3 - HeartSwells, Aester & JDS)
The music video was directed by David LaChapelle. It was filmed between September 8–9, 2002 in Los Angeles, at an abandoned newspaper print building. Christina took boxing lessons to prepare for the video, and more than 100 dancers were auditioned for the filming. According to Christina, the director was a genius and she had wanted to work with him for a long time. She also wanted to make sure that she and LaChapelle had the same vision and to not make anything glossy or pretty. The first day, it was filmed the scene where Xtina is lowered in a cage into a boxing ring, and a dance segment in the ring. The following day, the filming team filmed a foxy boxing scene, a table dancing segment, a party scene with Redman's rapping his part, and finished with filming a shower scene. It premiered on September 30, 2002 on Making the Video, and was described as "a post-apocalyptic orgy". According to director LaChapelle, the concept of the video was:
"The concept of the video is, the song is called "Dirrty", and it's every connotation of that word, dirty, I think this is a loose on dirty clubs, underground, so it's everything, we have plushies, we have crazy, absurd, subversive things going on. Seeing "Dirrty" you will have some good time. It's kind of place your parents don't want you to go to. It represents all the underground, dirty things and strange, dark places".
The video opens with Xtina gearing up and riding a motorcycle into a nightclub. Wearing a bikini and chaps, she is lowered from a cage into a boxing ring and dances, accompanied by several back-up dancers. A masked woman is lowered into the ring, and the two engage in foxy boxing. The scene is intercut with sequences of her dancing in a crop top, which she later removes to reveal a bikini top, and a microskirt. Redman then proceeds down a hallway, passing people such as mud wrestlers, a contortionist, and furries. The video proceeds to a scene of her and back-up dancers splashing and dancing while being sprayed with water in a room containing several urinals, as a possible reference to urolagnia.
My Thoughts: YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! Popjustice. I was hoping this would win and got so nervous as the votes were coming in and it went back and forth with Fighter until they finally reached a tie. It's one of my favorite videos ever. The real transformation from innocent pop princess to scandalous sex siren - I'm A Slave 4 U, We Can't Stop, Satan possessing Rihanna in Umbrella, etc. can take several seats. It's so sleazy yet so stunning, literally everything about it is incredible and it's obviously a worthy winner.
What the people said:
Laura Vanderbooben said:
2014 said:
Jwentz said:
Keifer3194 said:
Obviously that means the runner-up is Fighter. Sorry, Fighter!
#2. Fighter
Average: 9.34
Highest Score: 10 (x6 - HeartSwells, JDS, AlmostFamous, BEST FICTION, MrJames & Mikl C)
Lowest Score: 7 (x1 - vikeyeol)
The music video was directed by Floria Sigismondi, who revealed that it would display Christina "like I don't think she's been portrayed before". The video was filmed in Los Angeles, California and was inspired by the director's signature dark theatrics and the life circle of moths. Sigismondi explained the theme and plot of the clip to MTV News -
"The song is sort of about transformation, so I took that in a nature kind of way, the way nature deals with transformation. It's basically about coming from a very poisoned place to an empowerment, a place of strength. I've always had this fear of moths, and I subconsciously wrote this thing with these moths in it, so I guess I have to deal with it. They're furry and they carry dust. I found out in old mythology they are supposed to represent the soul. I think that's very appropriate".
The video begins with Xtina wearing a black velvet kimono, with a pale complexion and long black hair, refers to a larva. Three pins are lodged in her back, making her hunch. Initially, she is trapped in a glass box, and her kimono is billowing like a balloon. Three Gothic ballerinas eat fruit and then collapse. Xtina then breaks free from the box by pounding on it until it breaks. She tosses aside her kimono after furiously removing the pins on her back and throwing them away. A tattered, white, moth-covered dress is revealed, symbolizing her metaphoric evolution from the larva to a pupa. In addition, her hair becomes white, and moths fly around her. Near the end, Xtina wears an Elvira-type spider dress, again proclaiming that she is a "fighter".
My Thoughts: I never really loved this nearly as much as Your Body or Dirrty; don't get me wrong, it's a great piece in her videography but I've never been completely enamored with it, so I'm glad it didn't win. I give her majorrrrr props for working with real moths. I'm deathly scared of them (all insects, arachnids..basically if it has more than 4 legs it can fuck off) so I remember my skin crawling when I saw in the making of the video that they had real ones squirming and fluttering on her, I would have literally died. It has a fantastic aesthetic and was a new direction but I don't think it was executed as well as it could have been. It's admirable that she went for this type of video though instead of making another one like Beautiful which most artists would do for a song like this. If you wanted this to win don't crucify me, get the others for not giving it more 10s!
What the people said:
2014 said:
Laura Vanderbooben said:
Keifer3194 said:
Jwentz said:
SAY!
BOO!!
At least we have Tomodachi Christina to make up for it.
At least we have Tomodachi Christina to make up for it.
Awesome rate, vikeyeol! Its been a hoot.
Dirrty is incredible. It's grotesque but Christina looks so in control. More so than any popstar to follow, I'd argue.
Dirrty is incredible. It's grotesque but Christina looks so in control. More so than any popstar to follow, I'd argue.