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O.k., I'm not a big watcher of music videos, or anything much on the small screen. But I found myself watching one in the mall, while I was peacefully eating my lunch. I didn't see the whole thing, until I noticed out of the corner of my eye, J-Lo jumping around and showing the flesh. I'm a sucker for that sort of thing, so I started watching.
She's singing, and an all-male crowd is dancing behind her. It's on a city street, there's a car on fire, but other than that, everything's cool. Everybody dancing, Jenny's singing and dancing. Suddenly, the mood turns ugly: The hooligans start tossing Jenny around like a tavern wench. They even flip her over onto her back: things are getting nasty in a hurry.
Now we see the hero, in a military uniform, striding towards our poor heroine. He rescues her, the hooligans release her without a tussle (even though they have him at about 25-1). THEY DRIVE AWAY IN A WHITE FIAT 500. They're not even hurrying, as you might expect. Just rolling through the crowd, which parts like the Red Sea. Nobody so much as tries to snap off a mirror.
O.k., so when did music videos morph into infomercials? I just wonder how much Fiat is paying J-Lo for all this sponsorship. They could saturate the web with millions of penny-per-click ads, wouldn't that be a better bet?
She's singing, and an all-male crowd is dancing behind her. It's on a city street, there's a car on fire, but other than that, everything's cool. Everybody dancing, Jenny's singing and dancing. Suddenly, the mood turns ugly: The hooligans start tossing Jenny around like a tavern wench. They even flip her over onto her back: things are getting nasty in a hurry.
Now we see the hero, in a military uniform, striding towards our poor heroine. He rescues her, the hooligans release her without a tussle (even though they have him at about 25-1). THEY DRIVE AWAY IN A WHITE FIAT 500. They're not even hurrying, as you might expect. Just rolling through the crowd, which parts like the Red Sea. Nobody so much as tries to snap off a mirror.
O.k., so when did music videos morph into infomercials? I just wonder how much Fiat is paying J-Lo for all this sponsorship. They could saturate the web with millions of penny-per-click ads, wouldn't that be a better bet?