The TOP spot this week is claimed by Taio Cruz’s “Hangover" ft. Flo Rida!
As so elequently put by Wikipedia, “Taio Cruz is a British singer-songwriter, record producer, occasional rapper, and entrepreneur” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taio_Cruz). He’s also the man who brought you Break Your Heart and the smash hit Dynamite (“…I wanna celebrate and live my life, sayin’ ayy-oo, baby, let’s go. ‘Cause we gon’ rock this club, we gon’ go all night, we gon’ light it up like it’s dy-no-mite”—remember him now?) Cruz’s latest album, TY.O, was released in early October, the lead U.S. single off of which is “Hangover.”
The single is catchy, clappy, and has a heavy beat. The song opens with the lead verse: “I got a hangover, whoa-ooo, I been drinking too much fo’ sho.” Yeah, that pretty much tells you the direction the rest of the song goes in. Glorifying throw-up isn’t your typical lyric choice—but Cruz pulls it of in a club-worthy chorus.
This video’s the typical rich boy gone wild(ly drunk) story. Cruz wakes up near a panda mascot suit, shuffles around the remnants of his apartment, and finds a few scantily clad women and a strange, mustached Asian man lying around. In-between discoveries he has a series of flashbacks to the bash the night before, shown in Hitchcock-esk style. Hangover fans will rejoice. A number of the singer’s inebriated antics are shown, including driving a boat down a city street and breaking into airport tarmac. Flo Rida comes in and slams a few rhymes in our face while surrounded by a gaggle of woman. Same old, same old. The music video ends with an awkward attempt at a comedy shtick between Asian Man and Cruz.
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Want to read more about this video? Check out these blogs/articles below—
Idolator article: http://idolator.com/6055042/taio-cruz-hangover-video
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1673395/taio-cruz-hangover.jhtml
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