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At its best, VH-1’s Pop Up Video achieves a canny balance between comedy, music, and documentary, “re-purposing” old MTV chestnuts through a layered stream of short text bites that pop, both visually and audibly, on top of the video clip at hand. Parenthetical factoids, random pop cultural connections, rock star career gossip, and ironic juxtapositions of world history at the time of the clip’s original release afford a Greek chorus for viewers with short attention spans. Thus, Robert Palmer’s sultry, stone-faced “band” of Stepford supermodels sways through “Addicted to Love” while the viewer learns of the video director’s goal of invoking kabuki through the choice of makeup and Palmer’s love of alcohol; statistics on employm [Read More...]
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There are pop up audio and i can’t hear music