Sexiest pop videos

[ajva]

I've got a new project: making a list of my top 10 sexiest pop videos, but the top 10 has to be of the song/video combination rather than just either the video or song per se. I want to take some time over it, to get a comprehensive answer, and to this end, I'm asking you for your suggestions. I'd like a good spread of styles, so I'm happy to be introduced to new things to consider. Examples from my current longlist include Stand and Deliver by Adam and the Ants, Queer by Garbage and Justify My Love by Madonna. Those are all pretty mainstream, which is why I'm giving them as examples, as most people will have heard of them - so just to give you an idea of what I mean by the importance of the marriage of song and video. I need many more and varied ones to come up with a good top 10, though: at least a good 50 or so, I would have thought, to make a fair decision. Of course, it will still end up being my taste, but I'd be grateful for some assistance.

And I'll probably need a couple of months to make my final decision. So stay tuned! The final list will have reasons attached. :o)

Comments

[louis_mallow]

Beyonce - Crazy in Love
Shakira - Whenever, Wherever
Christina Aguilera - Dirty
Marylin Manson's version of Tainted Love

[ajva.livejournal.com]

OK, all added to my longlist, but I have to say: this is pretty revealing. You definitely have a taste for the whole "girls writhing" thing, don't you? :o)

[louis_mallow]

Strong women. But writhing, yes. In chains, too.

[ajva.livejournal.com]

I stand corrected. Strong women writhing in chains, yes. See, this is what I like about you, my dear: the whole "alpha wolf coupling" thing. Going for the women that submit to you, but they have to be bloody strong in the first place. Fantastic. Good call.

[ajva.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha! No, I'm not quite like that.

Please feel free to give suggestions?

[ajva.livejournal.com]

Hey! That's a good one! I didn't know it. Thanks!

[boxcat.livejournal.com]

Since Yesterday - Strawberry Switchblade
International Rescue - Fuzzbox
Sonne - Rammstein
Pure Morning - Placebo
(S)aint - Marilyn Manson

(One for a mutual friend) - Swastika Eyes - Primal Scream

[ajva.livejournal.com]

Hadn't heard of that last one, and went into it thinking: "I wonder which mutual friend he's talking about?"

And it was immediately obvious. Which reminds me. My boots are looking a bit muddy these days. :o)

[booklectica]

No Doubt - Don't Speak, but that might just be me. It's the contrast between her wandering around looking demure and then being all sweaty and rock-god on stage.

[sanjibabes.livejournal.com]

Texas - Summer Son

[sanjibabes.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uIFISklvXY

[sanjibabes.livejournal.com]

If only there were a video to this one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82NIMPvJYHE&feature=PlayList&p=7EE4B877B958BD4D&index=0

[sanjibabes.livejournal.com]

Interesting list compilation idea. I can think of songs that I find extremely sexy, like NIN "Closer" but the video just isn't sexy (to me).

Kate Gibson's cover of "Dance Me to the End of Love "I find sexy but no video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a0mu0BP574

Will ponder more.

[emmy-mallow.livejournal.com]

Aha - Take on Me

Though I must add that I wall papered my bedroom (ceiling included) with pictures of Morten Harket so it might just be me!

[ajva.livejournal.com]

Ironically, although I did like A-ha at the time, music-wise, I was never really one to have crushes on pop stars. And it's ironic because Stef in his younger days was the absolute spit of Morten Harket. To the point where, when he was 14, he went along to an A-ha concert with his girlfriend at the time and got mobbed on the way out because a bunch of girls mistook him for the real thing. And you could still see it a bit when I first met him...to the point where, about six months into our relationship, I met him in Paddington station at lunchtime during the workday, and took along my workmate Nicky - who, when we got back to the office, with no prompting at all, commented - with, unusually for her, a slightly blushingly shy note to her voice - that he looked just like Morten Harket.

I always find it very ironic that one of the few girls of our generation who didn't really give much of a shit about fancying Morten Harket ended up with his lookalike. Not that he looks like him these days, of course. :o)

a personal fave...

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

Aaliyah - If Your Girl Only Knew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehFDZU4hXbw

There's probably loads of others, but that's the one that leaps to mind...

[adjectivemarcus.livejournal.com]

I do very much love the Madonna video you mention.

Also - "All is love" by Bjork.

[sanjibabes.livejournal.com]

Shania Twain - Feel Like a Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJL4UGSbeFg

[sanjibabes.livejournal.com]

Liberty X - Just a Little
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPjTt0EeE4o

[sanjibabes.livejournal.com]

Jace Everett - Bad Things

[duranorak.livejournal.com]

Haven't looked at anyone else's answers, but here's a couple of mine, although for some reason I can't think of any more right now - working on it :)

My Secret Friend - IAMX feat. Imogen Heap (What's not to love?)
Washington Square - The Correspondents (New to me, but I think it's going to be a permanent fixture. The things I'd do to that boy.)
Aisha - Death In Vegas (Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.)
Tristan - Patrick Wolf (Stick with it.)

[duranorak.livejournal.com]

Oooh, ooh, and this (my bias is showing). :x

[ajva.livejournal.com]

I did hope you'd reply here. :o) Thanks!