Really Major Lazer?! Really??

We all know that I have been on the Major Lazer shit from the jump (thanks to Manuel while we were in Nantucket. He constantly reminded me that "the ONE show he wanted to see all summer he was missing"....which of course was Major Lazer. He would eventually miss the next 2 Major Lazer NY shows because we were in Doha hahaha)...
Daggering was nothing new to me. While shocking to most, I was "skilled" in the ancient art of it before the Pon De Floor video came out.
The video was incredible.
It was like a Takashi Murakami meets Cirque De Soleil meets Russ Meyer film with all the right ingredients.
Directed by the very talented Eric Wareheim (of Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job fame).
The song was fresh.
The video was intense.
The dancing..... well, the dancing goes without saying.
If you have yet to see this video, DO NOT HESITATE TO CLICK HERE! YOU MUST SEE THIS!
*All the embedding options have been disabled on the videos so you have to do the "old fashioned click the link technique"....Sawwwww-rrrryyy, lazy muffin f@$%ers*

So to follow up the instant classic....
Major Lazer decided to put out the video for "Keep it Goin Louder".
I saw an ad in the new Fader that had this freaked out "photobooth" style face on a woman in a star spangled onesie that I found quite interesting but didn't really think to research its origin.
Then I was on the Pitchfork music videos site and saw a thumbnail with that same face over "Major Lazer: Keep It Goin Louder".
I was pretty excited that that connection happened and that I was about to watch a new Major Lazer video.

But once I watched it, my whole opinion changed.
It was weak to say the least.
In an attempt to develop what seems to be a reoccurring style for Major Lazer, they tried to re-use the same style of hyper color animation (which was sooo successful in Pon De Floor, Tommy Sparks's insanely bizarre "She's Got Me Dancing", on the Tim and Eric Awesome Show, and was sort of hinted at in the video for MGMT's "Youth") and mix it with a very familiar and overused technique, which combines the horrifying with the (semi) attractive, coined by Chris Cunningham, in what is still one of my favorite music video/short films ever.

Soooo needless to say....
new Major Lazer video....
1 big thumb down and 1 indifferent, slightly sideways thumb.


***I decided to do a google image search to find some thumb icons to use at the bottom here but what I found was much more exciting/bizarre.
Feast your eyes on this tattoo.
Nothing better than an amputee having a sense of humor.
WTF?!?!