This Latina just let her hair down and hips were moving all over to this song.
Sonero de mi vida Te quiero tanto… Me causa un llanto cuando te recuerdo Fue el día más difícil De mi vida Como papel de lija En mi corazón El día tu te fuiste
Ahh Paris and Pharrell. Two of my favorite things that start with the letter “P”. I will have to settle for another option but perhaps we can run around like they do in the video and take a walk along La Seine and walk around Paris while the lights of the Eiffel Tower twinkle behind us. Paul Hunter directed the video and it looks like Pharrell and Mariah had way to much fun. Yes, both have moved on to greener pastures mowed by Nick Cannon and some hot girl for Pharrell but there is no denying their chemistry. They totally hit it. Smashed it. Knocked it out of the park.
“Kissing like a bandit stealing time” could be one of the best opening lyrics OF ALL Time (obligatory Kanye shurg). Also I love how he slides into the shot of the video. He came out with a crazy voice with a raspy touch, very urban blues. Love it. Then at the height of his one of two singles (the other being “Sign Your Name”) he managed to douche out by saying he was going to be bigger than the Beatles. Now he didn’t quite manage that but he at least managed one number one single.
At a time where music videos were still king and video rotation was directly correlated to record sales and if you watched MTV or VH1 in the 90’s you probably spotted the heavily rotated George Michael video “Freedom! ‘90”.It was the hottest video out and although it only reached #8 in the US, the video has helped the song become one of George Michael’s instant classics.“Freedom! ‘90” is/was an incredibly well written pop song where even the beginning sounds of a tambourine were the sign of an awesome song about to come.It was where George Michael bids farewell to his “Faith” alter ego that pretty much defined his career persona at the time.He wanted to stress the point even further by not appear in the video. No problem.The David Fincher directed video (he went on to direct Fight Club and Seven) is a stylish mixed bag of the biggest supermodels of the time.They served as sultry props for the overflowing with sex appeal video and lip synced the lyrics.This is when supermodels were the ultimate representation of beauty and they still graced ALL of the covers of magazines not celebutantes/actresses.The supermodels in this video will never be duplicated again.Naomi Campbell dancing in the shadows with her headphones, Linda Evangelista pulling her sweater over her head, Christy Turlington walking through hallways wearing a white sheet, Cindy Crawford taking a steamy bath and Tatjana Patitz making smoking look cool.My favorite part is when the song cuts to the breakdown and the strobe action takes it do another level and the video turns into art by using chiaroscuro as another character.Yea, I busted out “chiaroscuro”! I double majored in art history fools.
The only cover I’ve heard of it was when Alicia Keys and future baby daddy Mark Ronson covered a small portion of the at the 2007 VMA’s.This year marks the 20th Anniversary of “Freedom! ‘90”.Now while I would love to pry George Michael out a park bathroom and get him into a session to redo this song, that might be impossible to do.I do love me a good cover so why can’t we get a good 20th Anniversary cover version of the song and video.I’m going with instinct and a good voice and my vote would go to Rob Thomas to cover it.He has the vocal chops to slay it and still had his own flavor to it.Now for the video, I have to pick out some lovely ladies to fill the shoes of the supermodels before them.My picks would be Jessica Stam, Gisele Bundchen, Marissa Miller, Natalia Vodianova and girl crush Chrissie Teigen (umm hello if you’re not following her on twitter, get on board, she’s not only super cute but she’s hilarious and it takes a lot for me to say that about a girl no less).You know you wanna see these girls in a steamy video of a classic song.Now, while doing this at any other time may seem cheesy, it being the 20th anniversary of Freedom! ‘90” might make it work.
