Click Five - Just the Girl
RATING: *1/2 (out of four)
Click Five is a band that rolls a hell of a lot of gimmicks into one - boy band TRL charm, British Invasion mop-top hair, '80s synth production and identical black-and-blue suits that call to mind the Strokes or the Hives or one of the other one-name bands that made a temporary splash in 2002.
All this could be excused if Click Five actually was from England (they're from Boston) or if their record company had allowed them to lead their career off with a single that wasn't written by the Fountains of Wayne guy. As it stands now, "Just the Girl" is an even more treacly reprise of "Stacy's Mom" (with a hint of Tal Bachman's "She's So High") with far-too-cheesy lyrics about an unattainable girl the singer's in love with. ("She laughs at my dreams / But I dream about her laughter.")
The video begins in a boring classroom, with a TRL cross-section being taught Hemingway by Peter Brady in shirt and tie. (Or is it Bobby Brady? I don't know my Brady boys too well, and I don't really purport to.) A helicopter bearing the name of the band descends onto the school's roof, and Click Five begins playing from a stage already set up and also bearing the band's name.
And a note circulates in the TRL classroom, "Click Five On The Roof - Now!" If you're Peter or Bobby Brady, trying to teach these kids the virtues of a long-dead, severe-alcoholic novelist, and there are five identically clad, newly appointed teen idols power popping it up on the roof, do you expect to retain the attention of your class? Hell no.
The classroom clears out immediately, and Peter/Bobby spends the rest of the video wandering the empty halls, looking sweaty and confused and trying to find out where all his students went. (HINT: If you hear a helicopter land on the roof, and suddenly there's a bass-and-snare backbeat filtering down into your classroom, and the kids all shriek and vanish, they're probably headed up to the fucking roof. It kind of stands to reason.)
Director Vem employs a lot of staple music video tricks, frequently splitting the screen into fours and nines and wiping back and forth from performance footage to the flustered Brady English teacher. The lighting scheme is a bunch of pale blues and greens, and the surprise ending - when the teacher gives up his search and returns to his classroom to find all his kids sitting quietly at their desks - is no surprise at all.
Click Five is a band that rolls a hell of a lot of gimmicks into one - boy band TRL charm, British Invasion mop-top hair, '80s synth production and identical black-and-blue suits that call to mind the Strokes or the Hives or one of the other one-name bands that made a temporary splash in 2002.
All this could be excused if Click Five actually was from England (they're from Boston) or if their record company had allowed them to lead their career off with a single that wasn't written by the Fountains of Wayne guy. As it stands now, "Just the Girl" is an even more treacly reprise of "Stacy's Mom" (with a hint of Tal Bachman's "She's So High") with far-too-cheesy lyrics about an unattainable girl the singer's in love with. ("She laughs at my dreams / But I dream about her laughter.")
The video begins in a boring classroom, with a TRL cross-section being taught Hemingway by Peter Brady in shirt and tie. (Or is it Bobby Brady? I don't know my Brady boys too well, and I don't really purport to.) A helicopter bearing the name of the band descends onto the school's roof, and Click Five begins playing from a stage already set up and also bearing the band's name.
And a note circulates in the TRL classroom, "Click Five On The Roof - Now!" If you're Peter or Bobby Brady, trying to teach these kids the virtues of a long-dead, severe-alcoholic novelist, and there are five identically clad, newly appointed teen idols power popping it up on the roof, do you expect to retain the attention of your class? Hell no.
The classroom clears out immediately, and Peter/Bobby spends the rest of the video wandering the empty halls, looking sweaty and confused and trying to find out where all his students went. (HINT: If you hear a helicopter land on the roof, and suddenly there's a bass-and-snare backbeat filtering down into your classroom, and the kids all shriek and vanish, they're probably headed up to the fucking roof. It kind of stands to reason.)
Director Vem employs a lot of staple music video tricks, frequently splitting the screen into fours and nines and wiping back and forth from performance footage to the flustered Brady English teacher. The lighting scheme is a bunch of pale blues and greens, and the surprise ending - when the teacher gives up his search and returns to his classroom to find all his kids sitting quietly at their desks - is no surprise at all.
posted by daytime at 9:37 PM
1 Comments:
THANKS! YOU SAVED MY NIGHT!!!! ITS LIKE 3:00 am and me and my friend have been trying to find the video of the boys on the roof with the helicopter! we looked for and hour!!! at first we thought it was the jobros but we were so wrong!!!! i even asked my 20 r old brother and my friends 15 year old sister! all ages covered and we STILL didnt have an answer! so then we go to youtube and type in all of this stuff and we went on disney channel the website but all we could find was the jobros (who we quikly ruled out after watching all of their music videos)..anywhoo we typed in "helicopter roof boy band music video" and poof! there it is! first result on google....thanks so much you are a great person! thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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