It’s been five months since the Franz Ferdinand album came out and I could still sing its praises joyously. In a year when everyone from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs to the Noisettes to Shakira to Bat For Lashes have been partying like it’s 1977, Franz Ferdinand have added an intriguingly (and, in my opinion, necessary) masculine counterpoint.
Can’t Stop Feeling, though a great song, isn’t one of the standouts of the album, but it’s being released in the UK anyway as a single on Monday. Unfortunately, the video takes all the sultry, sexy, suit-wearing aura of the album’s artwork and previous singles and replaces it with, uh, something that can best be described as “most reminiscent of recent Weezer.” There’s awful face-making, pointlessly low-budget effects, and Alex Kapranos is wearing a sweater that kind of looks like it has water stains. Why, I ask you. Why? When the song is about, oh, thirty times as much fun as it looks like they’re pretending to be having…
Filed under: movies
I know I said I’d be taking today off, but as it stands I’m in front of the computer anyway, editing photos. And watching amazing amazing videos of Jersey Girls ca. 1992. I need to track down a copy of this, it’s sort of like the Maysles Brothers made a movie about my cousins.
This is from Carol Weaks-Cassidy and Ruth Leitman’s documentary Wildwood, NJ.
[The Doree Chronicles/FourFour]
