33 Pretty Voices ®

I am perhaps the only person on the planet who hasn't heard CALL ME MAYBE yet. Bit less than two months ago first played, on South African NOW 25 (I heartily recommend the SA series to all of the world, they're Region 2, and bargains, with many tracks), TONIGHT I'M GETTING OVER YOU after saving it out for Spring 2014. I am in Earthly heaven while it plays. I have two others of her, CALL ME MAYBE on NOW 22 and THIS KISS on NOW 24 and will be hungrily searching for more. Why do I report on not having seen items which I do have? Easy answer: Good things are scarce. I hold back in reserve something to look forward to.

Two things are fantastic about her. Her sound. Her looks. She has that super-cute fringe. The biggest news in hairstyles since Jennifer Aniston! And you can quote RavenGlamDVDCollector on that! She looks like fun personified in the nicest way possible! Every inch of her, from her cutely arched bare feet to those darling bangs, with special mention to those lovely, lovely eyes and that wondrously formed generous mouth with the perfect pearly teeth yells out DreamGirl DeLuxe! ®

THIS KISS might not be her best music video (what's with all the guys in beanies?), but when the song hits its stride, she's off and running. Its a sort of sleeper hit with me, the more I see it, the more I like it. Love your cool sound, Carly Rae!

So, watch this site for updates, more of C.R.J. to watch and review.

Overnight sensation with me after seeing TIK TOK. Got some voice, this little thing. And attitude. Plenty of cute attitude. Second and third ones I saw, were an awful disappointment, YOUR LOVE IS MY DRUG and WE ARE WHO WE ARE. But that one with the unicorns in which they apparently didn't hurt any mythical creatures, BLOW, with that James Vanderdoosh character, that was again great! Downloaded TAKE IT OFF, it wasn't quite what I wanted at first, but returned to it recently, and I now realize how good it is. The big mega-hit with me, though, is C'MON. Ke$ha at her best once again, and the video I really longed to discuss on IMDb, but with no link for it, hence, the major force of inspiration for the creation of this list, dear friends. Like I say, music videos are little movies in their own right. Here we see Ke$ha, as an unhappily employed waitress at a coffee bar walking out of her job; she can't stand the ratty old music playing there, and there's an old customer banging his mug on the counter insisting on 'More coffee please!' while the mug is full. So, she walks out, much to the chagrin of the customers and owner, having dunked her lollipop in the difficult old guy's mug, but realizes she has burnt her bridge, and sits there dejectedly like a starving little raccoon. From the heavens, a flash, and a rainbow-colored truck appears, driven by all sorts of costume ball critters. As she touches the door, static electricity sparkles, symbolizing the magical ride awaiting. Inside, it is a young innocent girl's dream, stuffed toy-animals come to life. And that song... She's a sabre-tooth tigeRRRR with a can of warm BudweiseRRRR as she dreamily plots poetic revenge on her former tormentors. Causing trouble in the dark, trouble in the dark, t-t-trouble in the dark... with a baseball bat swinging at the shelves. And then she's on the latest BMW motorcycle, her long, blonde hair reminding me every time I watch of Olivia Wilde in THE O.C....

And then there's DIE YOUNG. Exploring dark territory with pentagram symbols, upside-down crosses, a hearse, funeral procession, ferociously feeding wolves, all kinds of Illuminati triangles, Ke$ha wades deep into forbidden territory, but it's all just pretend, pretend, so, because I like it, I'm going to look past negative potentially dangerous connotations. She looks absolutely stunning! Luscious red lips, so kissable! The song is great! Yummy-yummy-yum again, Ke$ha! Those long, bare legs, dear, do you have a license to parade them like that? Wow...

This is a really, really pretty girl, and if Hollywood had any sense, she'd star in a movie as well. Something along the line of a fantasy heroine...

I've currently got TIMBER on order as one of the tracks on NOW 27. I of course cannot stand swine-dog, or Pitbull, whatever, but if Ke$ha graces the screen, the arrogant f*rt in a thunderstorm will go down with a spoonful of the nicest sugar contemporary music scene can provide. Update: Took a look at that tonight. Wow, she is great! But that dorky aging misfit no-good talentless oxygen thief sharing the screen with her should have been shot in the paddock. What a blot he is, the (expletive deleted) (several more expletives deleted) bald, dumb, old f*rt! Ass-clown, may I say that on a family site? Look, there's an obvious reason why the two of them were filmed separately. If I was Ke$ha I wouldn't want to be even near such a gormless idiot either. But getting back to the real subject (pardon my rant), Ke$ha has that billion dollar voice that can warble and soothe even the savagest of beasts, which is what I am right now after having had to endure that manifestation of other people's bad taste prancing around in his pink shirt and mixing his crude utterings with that pretty girl's songbird voice.

Ke$ha is quoted as saying that she encounters haters every day. You would, dear, every minute, even. You inspire jealousy, envy of the highest order. You would be the target of darkest desires and dismal frustrations. Please do know that you have people who wish you the very best in life for the joy you spread with your music. You have a wonderful irrepressible spirit. Keep that flag flying!

Yes, actress in THE HOUSE BUNNY, and a total scene stealer there, doing a parody of Madonna hit as "Like a Loo-oo-ser". Shortly afterwards I encountered her music video LOVE STORY (not to be confused with Taylor Swift's similarly-titled song) and let me tell you, you haven't seen a pretty girl till you've seen Katharine's LOVE STORY. She is this gorgeous bright-eyed girl with the long, long brown hair, and she's really showing off big time. There should have been more like that, Katharine, that's my only complaint!

Phenomenally successful. I don't have to tell the world about Taylor Swift, everybody knows Taylor Swift, there are images of her everywhere. She was also in that HANNAH MONTANA movie, as herself. Her best performance to me is the one I have repeated over and over and over, LOVE STORY. There will be many more hits to follow, Taylor Swift will be in the charts for a long time to come...

Clearly, Taylor also has IMDb's vote, her music videos, or at least some of them, are represented here. She and Britney Spears'...

Oops, no picture available on IMDb at the time of entry! Actually, Jahan, I've a bone to pick with you. You and your sister Yasmine, both of you the reason d'entre for band Krewella, were both sensational in your music video for ALIVE, and it has become a monumentally big hit in ELectricLadyLand, and, in particular, you were the lead fox in that one. Yasmine had to try very hard to keep up with you. You did everything as if it came naturally. A joy to watch how you take command of the cameraman's focus.

So why do I have a bone to pick with such a delightful creature? Hell, girl, what's going on? Besides ALIVE, the rest doesn't come up to scratch! Why? Might I be allowed to tell you I was worried when I first heard about those tattoos. Okay, so you guys show your commitment to Krewella in that way. You're really in it. But now I notice more and more tattoos. And there are highly suspicious music videos like PARTY MONSTER, which, while not exactly weak, speaks of dark, negative assosiations best not mentioned on a family site like IMDb lest I get reported again.

Try and salvage what you had. We like good girls. Too much dark stuff, come on, what do you need that for? You're young and pretty, build on that. ALIVE rocks! It more than rocks! That other thing just shocks. And is such a waste! With your looks, you can do stuff that those who fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down, can only dream about. Then, one day, when you're old, like 30 or so, you can try and outweird Lady Gaga and co.

Meant as constructive criticism. People, stay clear of tattoo parlors, they besmirch not only bodies, but the beings inside. That's Preacher Raven's lesson for today, folks. Jahan, please, bring the entire band back into the fold. You may be naughty, but no dirty/bloody/gory/ugly/ vaguely Satanic stuff (there, I said it after all) not because I am trying to convert you, no! Far from it! Hell, I'd love to entice you (censored by IMDb police and the nasty pervert was thrown into jail, don't worry, Jahan) But that ugly stuff is so beneath you, so common, not worthy of somebody so much better than that, such an able-to-soar-so-very-high starlet...

Siobhan Fahey, Keren Woodward, Sarah Dallin. As far as I can tell, the revelation re the origin of the band name doesn't appear on the Internet, but, cover your ears, Pooksie, it refers to something that ejaculates from excited male organs in the throes of passion. And that's a scoop for well-read ol' RavenGlamDVDCollector who's been around a hell of a long time.

This group had several hits during the Eighties, including the super-amazing VENUS, goddess on the mountain top, and the song with just the coolest sound ever, CRUEL SUMMER, leaving me here on my own. Catchy LOVE IN THE FIRST DEGREE, only you can set me free, was prevalent during the late Eighties. Also of note is I HEARD A RUMOR and ROBERT DE NIRO"S WAITING. Ironically, the latter was written after a friend got raped, and this was meant to cheer up the victim. I have unfortunately never seen this, only found a description of it on Wikipedia, so it must be floating about somewhere on YouTube, which I cannot access. That still slide on VuClip doesn't count, people.

As for VENUS, I consider it to be one of the best music videos ever made, certainly the best of its time. And that pretty blonde in that one quick shot looks like the ideal fairy-tale English princess more than English princesses look like fairy-tale English princesses in real life :) and just listen to those excited 'Wow!' yells coming from well-bred white girls. Current tastes in music have changed, things will never be this good again.

I HEARD A RUMOR: Combines old-style can-can/burlesque fashion with biker chic, with the three girls bending over, W-O-W spelled out emblazoned on their panties, to promote their similarly-named album. Keren Woodward, the leather-jacketed brunette, looks absolutely darling with that fringe. And I revel in those Busby Berkeley shots in which the girls and the dancers become geometrical shapes symbolizing blossoming flowers. Two different eras in style brought together. To paraphrase Bananarama, "Wow!"

Italian girl who wasn't shy at all, and sang BOYS, BOYS, BOYS (SUMMERTIME LOVE) in the swimming pool even as her bikini top was slipping off in the uncensored version. I just knew her as Sabrina. Other Eighties hits included LIKE A YO-YO you spin me around, and WHERE IS MY CHICO. She got a lot of attention in the pony press, there were topless shots (she and former rival Samantha Fox had a great duet together, CALL ME, in 2010; they both backed up their musical exploits with bare flesh pictorials during the heady Eighties, though in Samantha's case, it really was the other way around). The dark-haired European filly was something else, and admittedly, it's got nothing to do with the music at all...

Perhaps the most successful girl group ever, and they'd have been a whole lot more successful had they all pulled in the same direction. They disbanded, got the band together again, and they're still at it, but I get all misty-eyed for the old days, MANIC MONDAY, ETERNAL FLAME, and then that crazy one, WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN. Buffy noted that Principal Snyder walked around with that song stuck in his head, so I suppose it is only for mad people, but wow... Check out that music video, fall in love with little Susanna Hoffs. HAZY SHADE OF WINTER turned out to be the best part, and indeed the only uplifting thing about the movie LESS THAN ZERO. IN YOUR ROOM featured a psychodelic pop video,.and the girls really went all out for BE WITH YOU, a powerful display. Girl power! Girl power in a good, positive way! There were many other songs, sadly, a lot of them never had proper music videos, chief among them EVERYTHING I WANTED, which was dismissed as not good enough, not ready for inclusion on their album. Not good enough? Girls, you had high standards. There are songs nowadays being released that are total junk, if only they sounded that good. What really set this group back, was their constant bickering amongst themselves, and music videos couldn't be made when they had split apart shortly after a release of a hit song.

I wish I could turn back time and be some sort of mediator and get them to all play nice and then do some creative input on their stuff that was never made as music videos. Hey, they had some of the best music videos of the Eighties... They even inspired Atomic Kitten to do a remake of ETERNAL FLAME.

The very symbol of the kind of music I go for! Atomic Kitten rules! Rest of the available stuff drools! Okay, as you'll see from this list, I am mad about certain Eighties girl groups and some SAW mix solo artists, but at the turn of the century, Atomic Kitten showed the way. They're just the closest to perfection. Jenny Frost is my favorite, she's not part of the new line-up. As usual, I focus on the early years pre first break-up.

FOLLOW ME: Magical fairies! They clap their hands, and magic happens! WHOLE AGAIN: The cool, cool sound of Atomic Kitten. There are two music videos of this song, one with a noticeably down Kerry Katona, and the official, in which Jenny Frost comes to the rescue. I was an instant sucker for Jenny! ETERNAL FLAME: Atomic Kitten reworked the old Bangles hit, and really hit it out of the stadium! All barefoot and innocently seductive, these little tiger-kittens made more of this song than their predecessors ever could. Notice the constant contact Atomic Kitten has with their audience, the arms, hands, eyes... IT'S OKAY: Always jokingly considered it as a Diet Pepsi commercial. The good-looking people having fun. Love that sports car on the highway, the rendezvous with the boyfriends, the cool place to hang out, the wet bodies in the water (especially the wet bodies in the water)... THE LAST GOODBYE: Sophisticated glamor, charged with sexual tension. Saying goodbye at an airport, a hotel rendezvous, romance in a cinema, a lovers' quarrel with a car door slammed dramatically. A must-see as well as a must-hear. BE WITH YOU: Just as I thought it couldn't get any better. Pinnacle of perfection. You have to treat yourself to this night-club music video. Enticing to excess! If you can't buy or rent it, download it now, you'll thank me later.

Actress, MOULIN ROUGE? Hell, she appears as the Green Fairy, the absinthe spirit, let loose from the bottle, for fleeting moments. It's great that IMDb credits her for that. She was also in an Australian TV soap called NEIGHBOURS, but only Australians watched that.

But thanks only to her flash!-and-it's-over appearance as the Green Fairy, I can discuss a well-known star's fun-filled music videos here on IMDb.

Kylie's singing career has been ridiculed by many, yet she has endured, and has been in the spotlight virtually all her life. She began relatively small, but was an instant success with her cover version of THE LOCOMOTION and her big early hit I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY so lucky, lucky, lucky... Come on, I know the serious among you are laughing in the aisles out there, but this girl took the Stock, Aitken and Waterman ball and ran with it; she was a household name in Britain and its former colonies. Success in the United States eluded her for a very long time until she came up with SPINNING AROUND. But Americans just don't know what they missed out on with Young Kylie.

And the majority of my reviews of her music videos will center around her early years: I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY: How I first saw her. Kylie in a foam bath, bare-legged Kylie next to, and falling onto, a bed. Caused derision locally at the time, a music video for dirty old men. It's nothing like that, there were just lots of prudes out there, nowadays identified as haters. THE LOCOMOTION: That red dress. Enough said. This cover version was at the core of establishing Kylie's success. Okay, in retrospect, there is a certain dorkiness in places, she was just starting out, but it is obvious that fun was had by one and all. HAND ON YOUR HEART: Valentine Kylie. Saccharine-sweet, with the yellow dress and the red dress, the yellow pumps and the red pumps. And the red hearts... Junior prom night inspiration for a whole generation. ESPECIALLY FOR YOU: I think Jason Donovan looks at this once a week and has a good cry afterward. I wouldn't blame him. WOULDN'T CHANGE A THING: Fondly referred to by myself as 'The One with the Fake Cat', this is Kylie as a darling ingénue. The dancing sequence is absolutely adorable. If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor, find a way. Cute and innocent and prettyX1000. BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW: Kylie grew up, and went all out to show everybody she was all grown up. She was on the forefront of white girls mixing it up with the hoods, and this video showed her more than just hanging out with guys across the color line. No matter, we got to see a gorgeous Kylie bare-legged and looking like a fun fox. STEP BACK IN TIME: Kylie goes Seventies retro, very convincingly too. There in the phone booth, she looks just like the 70's magazine cover girls. Delightful, just look at those gentle little hands of hers. WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO: Kylie gives you a smouldering look while ironing some clothes to crispy-crispy hell. This one shows her as a Sixties-styled honeycombed hairstyle glamor dolly-bird, which could easily have backfired. Instead, it produced one of my favorite looks in music videos of all time. She is beyond merely beautiful. She is, to use a phrase overused to death years ago, to die for. Really. You have to see this. WHERE THE WILD ROSES GROW: Dead Kylie weirds us out as she goes all Laura Palmer with necrophiliac connotations, but what saves it is yet another winning look as the femme fatale, the drop dead gorgeous girl inspiring the jealous lover to the dark deed. Those red hair, those lovely, lovely blue eyes. How anybody could hurt that, goes beyond me... PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE: Deep space Kylie. A striptease in space. Kylie really shows off, but actually shows very little, with a whole lot of exaggeration. Anybody else ever noticed that Kylie definitely has a foot fetish, or a predeliction for directors with a foot fetish, because in a whole lot of her videos we see close-ups of her little Size 4 feet. Here they are bare, of course. The nudity is mostly back, legs and feet, there is a daring glimpse of bare breast from the side, but it leaves a whole lot to the imagination. DID IT AGAIN: Count the Kylies part one. Kylie is besides herself in this one. Hell, I have some basic idea of how they did this, but it must have taken a whole lot of work to achieve her beating up herself. BREATHE: Embryo Kylie. Very soothing, quite haunting. I found certain similarities in a BAYWATCH montage, unfortunately didn't make note of it, but one might have inspired the other, I now cannot tell you which one came first...

Then came US success. Gone were the teenaged looks. From here on, she no longer had to try convince you she wasn't as innocent anymore.

SPINNING AROUND: The new-look Kylie. Or rather, it's more than skin deep. More experienced. I make no secret of it that I of course prefer her early work. ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS: Kylie in Monte Carlo. It always struck me that it looks like scenes from a movie. Fast girl in fast car and at the gaming tables, super-glamorous. CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: Zenith of the loss of innocence parade. From a Lamborghini racing over a bridge to weird futuristic fashion, featuring that sinful glance, but then back to the teenaged look again... PLEASE STAY: Ultra-fancy start, that look is gorgeous. Second half degenerates by comparison, simply because the first half is too perfect for words... IN YOUR EYES: The one with the K-jewellery. Has a totally darling moment when she seems to be kneeling in front of you, then looks up. Love-worthy. COME INTO MY WORLD: Count the Kylies part two. I can just stare at Multiplying Kylie who breeds like bunnies. Hell, at that rate, by this time there'd have been one for me too :)... How the hell did they do this? RED BLOODED WOMAN: Title sums it up better than anything I can say. Kylie loves showing us that she is all grown up, and yummily so...

***Due to subject matter, this part of the list carries a PG-16 age restriction. Good night, kiddies, off to bed with you, we're gonna talk grown-up stuff, okay?***

I read about this band when they were new and controversial, and now that I have Internet, and was doing research on the history of music videos, I was reminded of them when I found an entry regarding censorship. The band's story is completely different from their contemporaries, as they're from Russia, where political correctness doesn't stand wide-legged over everything else, rather it is a vast social disrespect that stands wide-legged over everything else. Yulia Volkova and Lena Katina, they make up t.A.T.u. And that weirdly-written name refers to 'this girl likes that girl' when written in Russian and then abbreviated or something like that.

They had a big hit in Russia, YA SOSHLA S UMA, literally 'Have I Lost My Mind?' very difficult for us poor Westerners to follow as our knowledge of Russian is somewhat shoddy, which was then translated a couple of years later to ALL THE THINGS SHE SAID, all the things she said, running through my head, running through my head, and that set the charts on fire! Two schoolgirls kissing drew even bigger attention, and promptly got the video on the list of undesirables. Yeah, a gay love kiss will do that, but a truly obnoxious black rapper can just be as anti-social as his rude heart desires, but that's another story. Anyway, it's nothing more than a kiss and some leggy shots, but some people were on them as if they were having sex with goats. t.A.T.u. saw themselves as oppressed and appeared in T-shirts with the word 'Censored' slashed across it. Their manager, Ivan Shapovalov, is quite a character that would hardly fit in with Western standards. When accused of exploitation of teenaged girls, he replied that everybody knows they're the best and he prefers them that way, sort of 'Put that in your pipe and smoke it, American sensibilities!'

The videos, the original in Russian but clearly with the girls in their native tongue, show the two dressed as schoolgirls kissing in the rain in front of a crowd of onlookers peering in through a chain-link fence, which by the end of the video turns out to rather be holding the onlookers captive as the girls move away hand-in-hand into freedom.

NOT GONNA GET US: The two of them are on the run, presumably from the Anti-Lesbian Brigade, wanted posters and everything, and they spot a big old tanker truck, and the two bunnies proceed to truckjack it there and then, and they race through the Siberian snow, putting the truck on automatic, dashing pall-mall down the highway, while clambering about on the outside of the cabin, reminiscent of RUNAWAY TRAIN. The music is like a steam locomotive, and they go 'They're not gonna get us, not gonna get us' as the monstrously huge machine rockets through road barriers, scattering scurrying men, headlight beams slicing through the night. The juxtaposition of beauty and innocence, and of a steel hulk hurtling along on relentless wheels, all in the icy snow, is a breath-taking experience. They're not gonna get us, not gonna get us, even the night, falling around us... Beautiful, beautiful, encore, ladies, encore! ALL ABOUT US: After a fall-out at a roadside diner, raven-haired little Yulia spitefully goes straight and finds a male lover, but the love tryst goes awry when he expects too much, she gives him the finger and calls Lena on her cell. The sleek Camaro SS coupé comes speeding to the rescue even as the glowering guy turns mean and attacks Yulia from behind. She struggles to get away as the guy has murderous intent. Desperately loading a pistol, she levels the handgun, there is a shot, and spattering blood. You know how crickets chirp in the night, there is a sound, there is silence, and then they chirp again? The music does the same. Little Yulia rushes down the fire-escape to her waiting lover outside in the car...

By the way, despite the way they acted to fuel the fire of media speculation, neither of the girls had any lesbian longings, it was all just pretend. They were the most successful band from that part of the world ever.

People, loyal fans, ardent music video lovers, inclusion of this one on this list took research. I of course wanted to list her as Stacey Q, but there is no link for her under her stage name. Her real name is Stacey Lynn Swain, she really rocked during the mid-Eighties, most notably my big-quest-to-find-on-DVD this year, TWO OF HEARTS. I need you, I need you... I'm an aging old guy, and I get a lump in my throat at memories of those good old days. She wasn't exactly a prominent image locally at that time, I had perhaps only the vaguest notion of what she looked like, but she sounded Better Than Heaven. Actually I always imagined her to look like British Page 3 girl Suzanne Mizzi, and yes, something along that line. Check her out on the Net, there is a delightful concert version, clap-along, totally darling, besides the music video. I haven't seen the music video yet, it is scheduled for pretty darn soon, expect me to get all emotional and make a damn fool of myself here on this list.*

*Just a couple of days later, and yes, I've finally seen the music video that has eluded me back in the days when I monitored each and every TV journal show that screened music videos with my trusty VCR remote control in hand and grottily (sometimes) got my fix on untrustworthy videotapes. Well, it had its moments, but yeah, what a waste of the best years of your life, confined to inferior systems :( But getting back on track, just saw TWO OF HEARTS, and though it's a bit grainily shot (and the volume on Essential Music Videos Pop Hits is a bit tame) the song and the singer is just to die for! Ah, the allure of the glamor girl, hopping around like a darling bunny to the beat of her rhythmic very, very pretty, very, very pleasing song, with that soothing, soft, light voice... Sure sounds (and looks) Better Than Heaven to me! Long, thin arms, long, shapely legs, thin waist, blonde, fun, AND she sounds like an angel fallen from the skies... Ooh, the spring bride! Sigh, to think that somebody woke up next to that the next morning... Oh, be still, my heart...

WE CONNECT: Although I do not go for the monochromatic sequences, the song is pretty damn good as well, and this has today, after a download from dear old Tubidy.mobi, become yet another difficult target for me to find on DVD.

IMDb, rectify this, please. Stage name Stacey Q. People are really not going to recognize her as it now stands.

I will forever remember her as the girl who sang SK8TER BOY in 2002. I have one of her concerts on DVD and has watched in numerous times. There are obviously lots of thorns to this little creature, she is a kitten with very sharp claws that she is gonna use at the slightest provocation...

Always described as a punk rocker. Pardon me, punk rockers didn't look as cute in my young days. Thing is, she uses four letter words in her songs that I may not repeat here lest I get reported for abuse. Most notably the one meaning 'excrement'. It's quite beneath her, actually, she doesn't need to shock to get attention.

But Avril needs a big, big hit to define her status right now...

They don't come prettier than the young stuff, and Hilary loves being in the spotlight. Okay, in her inexperience, she made some mistakes, but she provided some really, really pretty music videos. She would certainly get my vote as one of the prettiest girls in music videos of all time.

COME CLEAN: Evocative, and sounds great. Hilary in that big room with all the candles on the floor, while it is raining outside, and she is longing for her boyfriend, who seems to be way too much not really the type of guy for her, rather more a young girl's bad choice. WAKE UP: So beautiful she is dangerously threatening. Few guys could approach her without trembling in their pants. Only the very best need apply. An impossible dream. She appears in outfit after outfit, outdoing herself all the time. Beauty like this requires a license, and she should come beg for it from me (I wish!)... TO THE BEAT OF MY HEART: I have a holy reverence for this. I am not of the ability to do justice here with my measly words. I write at a story featuring a very beautiful girl, and she is an undefined image in my mind, as what Earth has to offer falls miserably short, till I saw this. I can just look at pretty Hilary, and whimper softly... REACH OUT: Does she know what she is alluding to in the music video? Young child barely out of school all kinky sweet about holding her little hands behind her back to be tied? Reach out and touch me! Oh, that finely chiseled face! Pity about that totally totally unnecessary no-talent sitting there like a louch (no, wait a minute! that is a louch!) spoiling the song and wasting oxygen spewing inane non-lyrics. Nice legs, Hilary. What a cute little kid. Bet she's still a virgin!

Lead singer of The Pussycat Dolls. Other members of the band are... er, uhm... Gimme a minute here, er... Well, if even RavenGlamDVDCollector doesn't know... Anyway, without her, the Pussycat Dolls couldn't exist. She is also a solo artist. (Her performances with the Pussycat Dolls discussed on this list under that heading)

<<<UNDER CONSTRUCTION>>> {currently busy with discussing Pussycat Dolls, so you guys will understand the delay, 2015/02/21, 9:06:58 PM}

{The Raven admits to being a novice here, I am a newbie on the ALL SAINTS front, I only saw magazine articles about them back in the day, since RavenGlamDVDCollector hit the 'Net I've been doing research, and it's currently going not exactly exceedingly well, and I am actually quite unprepared for this presentation, but I am every bit impressed with their early work, NOT SO everything, stuff like CHICK FIT obviously try to capitalize on junky hip-hop sound, I prefer a pure, decent song like NEVER EVER. It is in any case a trademark of The Raven that I look at the original work, not when the band is reformed four, five, six, seven years later. But any input from viewers of my lists/fans of All Saints welcomed. Please pardon anything said out of ignorance on this entry though 2015/01/20, 8:36:54 PM}

{Anybody out there that can tell me if the All Saints appear on any store-bought DVDs? And if so, just the title of the DVD? 2015/01/22, 3:49:09 PM}

Started out as All Saints 1.9.7.5. with Melanie Blatt, Shaznay Lewis and Simone Rainford as part of the lineup. LET'S GET STARTED. Looks very, very Third World, except for Melanie Blatt. Doomed to failure. Simone left. Then band became All Saints. Melanie Blatt, the Appleton sisters Nicole and Natalie, Shaznay Lewis. All-girl bands have notoriously bad track records at all pulling in the same direction. If this group really had their act together like a proper well-oiled machine, jeez, look at them! They did do well, but they could have been superstellar! What finally broke them up forever and for all, rumor has it, was a fight over a jacket. Must have been some jacket...

I KNOW WHERE IT'S AT: (1997) Regretfully, The Raven remains unenlightened about this one, can't succeed in finding a site where I can download it from, as I can't download from either YouTube or Daily Motion, and due to recent changes at WapNext, same there. Wikipedia just mentions that there is very little color and that the girls are almost in black-and-white. NEVER EVER: (1997) European version, the one with the swimming pool, not the church. This has just gotta be one of the prettiest music videos I have ever seen. Some really, really hot foxes here. Sounding sweet as peaches and cream. To my shame, only seen it just now, years and years after the fact. Pretty voice in a sad lament. Oh, anybody who sounds that great should be forgiven their little trespasses! Research show that it is thought of as 'a whiny song' that is nevertheless known verbatim by every true child of the Nineties. All I can say is that it is a lovely performance! Melanie Blatt, be still my heart, what a classy fox! As for the American version, I've seen a snatch of it, but with my limited downloading access can't find a site where I can get to it. YouTube, WapNext and Daily Motion I can't handle. LET'S GET STARTED/IF YOU WANT TO PARTY I FOUND LOVIN': (1997) Returning to original All Saints 1.9.7.5. material. Song soon goes in wrong direction with Shaznay Lewis messing it up with her rapping, but then rights itself to go back to pure All-American All Saints sound, something they should have been well advised to adhere to. Shot in a monochromatic black-and-white tinged with brown. Cool sound when it hits its stride. UNDER THE BRIDGE & LADY MARMALADE: (1998) This double single is another one I can't get to. BOOTIE CALL: (1998) Downloaded this one about 11 months ago but then some curse struck my memory card. Remember that it was in black-and-white (they really tend to go for black-and-white, it seems) and had these ugly pathetic old loser misfit guys doing phone sex from public phones, kinda lame idea were it not for the pretty faces saving the video. But the theme sucked and messed up the whole thing. Bad idea, should have been junked on the spot. Cannot download it again, it's No Longer Available, says VuClip, who more than just often fails to deliver. WAR OF NERVES: (1998) The Raven is unqualified to discuss this. Unable to download. But Wikipedia says there's a bus with the All Saints emblazoned on it, a pregnant silhouette of Melanie Blatt in the shower, and a fight between the Appleton sisters. I'm still trying to see it. Come on VuClip! PURE SHORES: (1999) From THE BEACH, which ruins the music video if you're not a Leonardo fan. The girls are filmed in a haunting BLAIR WITCH-y kind of way. ALL HOOKED UP: (2001) The girls in yet another goodie. That line, “Why's the fool all up in my ass, doesn't he know that I got my own cash?” had me scurrying for my old friend A-Z Lyrics a little while back, was sure I heard something else, something unprintable here... Kinda inexplicable though, these stunning sinning Saints being superpowered and able to just casually pick up guys and toss them out like junk (though the types featured clearly deserve it) through walls and all. Been watching Buffy, haven't ya? Reformed All Saints (off and on, for a little while, anyway)

ROCK STEADY: (2006) The song is good, but the music video, shot in black-and-white, kind of freaks me out with those eyes-bleeding-behind-sunglasses idea. Also the pool of blood at the girl's feet, blood dripping from her dress... These are what I classify as 'Negative Imagery' and the less said about them the better. I'll simply question their purpose. CHICK FIT: (2007) Girls, you've sold out to hip-hop. Don't slum. Shaznay Lewis could go for her own solo act, she takes more than well to it, but white-sailed schooners don't belong in polluted murky waters. Their hulls might get dirty.

100 million likes on FaceBook? Wow, congratulations Shakira! Topping that, you are also on The Raven's List of Pretty Voices ®. HIPS DON'T LIE is credited as the most successful song of the 21st Century, which is almost 14% over as I type here, so good luck maintaining this record for the next 86 years! And then there's SHE-WOLF, a personal favorite of The Raven, and LOCO, yet another. Anybody who hasn't. downloaded SHE-WOLF yet, should do so now, there is apparently only one or two, perhaps three, horny men in the entire world who hasn't done so already! Shakira is a hot fox and capitalizes on this as only a long-legged blonde with a toned midriff can! Supersexy, vivacious and not a little bit shy, but damn cute!

Yes, she is one of the three major exports of her home country, Colombia, the one being coffee, one of the others being highly illegal, and then, that leaves us with Shakira.

HIPS DON'T LIE: (2006) SHE-WOLF: (2009) This she-wolf definitely looks, and sounds, like she paints her toe-nails day-glo hot pink. And in that cage, golly, looks more like a naked parrot! But I'm just funnin', 'cause naturally I am a sucker for this! Love the asymmetrical... er, dress... I'm sure that if the Big Bad Wolf ever caught her, and was (slurp!) about to devour her, all she would have to do is let loose with that wail she so gamely employs in this song, and the Big Bad Wolf would break out in such laughter and start rolling around fit to bust his tummy!

I searched for years and years to find a DVD of I LOVE YOU ALWAYS FOREVER, and just when I settled on a pirated copy, I found the real thing on Essential Music Videos "Pop" which I imported post-haste the moment I found the item listed as available on my local WantItAll site. I've just watched it now for the umpteenth time. Wow, it is so cool and gentle and lovely, hey, the world was a different place in 1996 for something this sweet to have topped the charts!

In my days of searching for the music video, I was thrilled to find Donna appearing in Season 7 of BEVERLY HILLS 90210, “The Phantom of CU” and singing this lovely, lovely, darling song.

If you want some Valentine-y magic, might I suggest this? Download if no other way, but do try for the video. Your girlfriend will love it too! In fact, your girlfriend's heart will jump cartwheels at the romantic sight of this!

I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW rocked a generation of youngsters and sky-rocketed Tiffany to chart-busting greatness for one glorious week. That's the score. But for The Raven, who is as mad about her as Jeffster on TV-show CHUCK, Tiffany is far more than that! It took me years to find it on a DVD, and I can just smile, smile, smile watching it.

I'm a GENIE IN A BOTTLE, baby. That's where the magic started.

I bought a DVD featuring some of her music videos, and it also included bits and pieces of behind-the-scenes. There were two little girls ooh-ing and ah-ing over their GENIE IN A BOTTLE idol, and those two reflected my sentiments exactly. They were Christina fans because they were impressed with her total package, (they themselves were good-looking, stylishly-dressed pre-pubescent girls) and what struck me is that they would not 'go' for anybody else on the music scene. Girls at that age are very critical, but this girl's girl was absolutely perfect, otherwise those two wouldn't have 'been in her fan club'. Witness Christina singing the song at the Peach Pit After Dark in BEVERLY HILLS 90210, what's not to fall in love with?

GENIE IN A BOTTLE: ( KEEPS GETTING BETTER: () The trend to be ultra-ultra blonde, to out-platinum one another, really took hold amongst the young songbirds. That black hood juxtaposed against those white hair...! Be still my heart! I am only a male, and males are dogs! Christina appears in a cute blue wig as well, driving a sporty corvette, also as an aggressive tigress of a mistress, but that one scene, where by the arch of her neck, she's a cartoonishly cute kitten, just does it for me! Hold on...! Keeps getting better!

She represents an era of innocence that is no more. Described as bubble-gum pop at the time? Well, what then is the stuff the rappers 'sing' (gmph!) nowadays? Crack hip-hop?

ONLY IN MY DREAMS. Wholesome, totally virginal Debbie cavorting on a carousel, on the beach, and several other disjointed images (from dreams, maybe?), total teenybopper style. She reminds me of a young Bridget Fonda. ELECTRIC YOUTH. Her best? The future belongs to the future itself, and the future is electric youth! Ultra, ultra preppy, going to be way too preppy for most people reading here to like it, but I have developed quite a taste for it.

Normally The Raven knows his stuff, as I'm sure most of my followers have noticed. But like most Pussycat Dolls fans, I consider them to be 'Nicole Scherzinger and some other folks'... Until now. Researching them for this list, I'm finally beginning to make a small first step at knowing them individually. Like virtually all all-girl groups worth their salt, internal strife was at the order of the day. Memo to next big-hit girl group's manager: You will have to let them, metaphorically speaking, eat through a big bag of salt together. Mutual suffering will create a sisterly bond. Everlasting. And it will help with future gigs. Nicole Scherzinger. Undisputed (except internally, of course!) lead singer of the group. Carmit Bachar. Aka Foxy Doll. The overly red-dyed hair. Melody Thornton. Aka Mel, Baby Doll. Kimberly Wyatt. The short-haired blonde*. Ashley Roberts. The long-haired blonde. Jessica Sutta. Looks like the Posh Spice of the group. *depending on the era

<<<UNDER CONSTRUCTION>>> {but feel free to snoop around in the framework} DON'T CHA: (2005) Out of the ballpark, off-the-charts fantastic! Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me, don't you wish your girlfriend was a freak like me, don't cha? Ol' Busta Rhymes plagues the beautiful sound like a festering sore, like a dumb tattoo spoiling virgin flesh, but he does have something there about taking off the Chanel and leaving the lingerie on. STICKWITU: (2005) Ultra-cool, ultra-smooth sound. This is so, so beautiful, and fortunately not marred by any unnecessary rapper-louts dropping by. You know how to appreciate me, I must stick with you forever... Wish I was staying over at the De Ville... BEEP: (2006). Who'd have thought this could be hit song material? But oddly enough, it works. Featuring Will.I.Am who at least isn't one of those brash arrogant types. All the raunchy words are cutely beeped out, just as IMDb beeps out one of them when I tried to relay the whole thing, so let's just drop it, but ass and cock are only farm animals... It doesn't mean a thing if you're looking at my beep, I'm a do my thang while you're playing with your beep! BUTTONS: (2006) Ol' Snoop Douchebagg makin' out with The Lead Pussycat... Yes, even in the lyrics, it is all Nicole-centered, although he calls them all by name. What's it with PCD getting their beautiful smooth harmonies constantly vulgarly interrupted by dubious critters? It's as if they need to vindicate their existence by (needlessly) including a disrespectful miscreant of the lowest order as a further selling point to the crude masses. Like a cockroach running across a banquet table... Especially like the burning flames. I DON'T NEED A MAN: Ah, looks just like a pantyhose commercial, my first thought as it opened. Or one of those smooth-legs-safety-razors- for-ladies ads. WHEN I GROW UP: (2008) WHATCHA THINK ABOUT THAT: (2008) OUT OF THIS CLUB: (2008) I HATE THIS PART: (2008) I am going to try and recapture how I felt about this lots of years ago when I obtained it on a NOW compilation disc: Wow! They sure are beautiful! Sounds great! Nice song! Let no man tear The Pussycat Dolls asunder! Bless their little hearts! Something like that. Very touching, very beautiful, heartfelt song. Love that bit where they dance with the sun behind them. Pussycats RULE! JAI HO! (YOU ARE MY DESTINY): (2009) Seemed to outlandish for my taste, but Wow! Really good! BOTTLE POP: (2009) Strongly sexual title obviously refers to loss of virginity, orgasm, and they cavort about on stage like horny little bunnies. The chorus from a guy in back sounds just like a big frog in a far-off river pool, Bottle Pop! Bottle Pop! Bottle Pop! everytime they go Bottle Pop! Bottle Pop! Bottle Pop! Yeah, imagine your pubescent daughter getting stuck onto these words and going round humming an ode to losing her virginity... As usual Nicole is the center of attraction. They're all in the most colorful space-age suits imaginable, all designed to make the guys wanna pop their bottles... Due to still being unable to identify the girls, I just cannot say which one it is that puts her knee up beside her face, Ashley or Kimberly? Some party trick! HUSH HUSH: (2009) Starts off gloriously with Nicole naked and wet in the bathtub. Yeah, the rest of the group were dismayed when the song was credited as Pussycat Dolls featuring Nicole Scherzinger, but in all fairness maybe it should have been Nicole Scherzinger featuring Pussycat Dolls. Former dance troupe member Carmen Elektra also appears dancing alongside Perez Hilton. The other group members are all relegated to being background scenery, albeit very nice background scenery. Try as I might, for the life of me, I don't hear the others singing, just Nicole. She sports a hairstyle that is reminiscent of Donna Summer in the second half that is a homage to Gloria Gaynor's I WILL SURVIVE. But it's not my favorite bit. When she comes out of the bath the song goes into up-tempo beat, and all the lovely Pussycats cavorting about on the stairs, some swinging on chandeliers, my kind of magic.

The Dolls rely, by their origin as a burlesque troop, very heavily on sex appeal. Ranges from the frequently overt, to the almost innocent. Notice long-haired blonde Ashley Roberts walking away with the pink teddy bear in I HATE THIS PART, what a subtle *beep* invitation...

Multi-talented Jennifer! Not only could she get The Raven to watch an ol' weepy like PARTY OF FIVE, but the girl can sing as well! From the sequel to I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (no, haven't watched it yet, yes, I do understand it wasn't as popular as the original), I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER brought us HOW DO I DEAL, and the music video features scenes from the slasherfest. With Jennifer's winsome eyes the main attraction. Please, who would want to go after her with a fish-hook? Then again, this is a dark world indeed. BARENAKED is another great hit, a couple of years later. Finding it on DVD is unlikely, but her big hit HOW DO I DEAL is generously included with the movie's DVD as an extra. Way to go!

Jennifer can't put a foot wrong. She's the sweetest little bunny, and the more that is available of her, the better.

No, I haven't entered her in the wrong category. Liv has a singing career as well. Back in February 2012, her cover version of INXS's song NEED YOU TONIGHT for a Givenchy ad campaign spawned a single. Fans of Liv, be well advised, you have to check it out, so download it, I don't suppose you'll find it on DVD. It's heavy metal in monochrome, quite something else, and she should really give us more of this. A lucrative second career, Liv?

***SENSITIVE MATERIAL ALERT, SENSITIVE MATERIAL ALERT*** Prudes, do not proceed any further without the permission of your mothers. Kiddies, go to bed, good children are in bed by eight o'clock, and I mean, ALONE in bed. Haters, slither off and die, you hags.

Yes, she found fame posing for The Sun, a British tabloid newspaper, and she was therefore a Page Three girl, appearing topless on the third page, during the mid-Eighties. Yes, she was, er, well, gee, this is a family site and there are lots of prudes out here, but she was stacked, all natural, the symbol of Nature's bounty, I suppose, but I was a fan primarily because she had a cute little foxy face matching her name. In a time of local censorship, Samantha Fox was kinda, to me, the flag of rebellion (so, to all you haters and prudes out there, the battle lines are drawn, I am NOT for conservative choices) and when Samantha Fox began a recording career, I cheered for her. Well, blindly, I must admit. Today I tend to agree with one criticism, that big hit of hers, TOUCH ME (I WANT TO FEEL YOUR BODY), those words, ooh I shudder today, 'like a tramp in the night, I was begging for you, to treat my body like you wanted to, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh'. Ooh-ooh indeed. The Raven thinks that conjures up terrible, terrible scenarios that are no, no, no fun. The Raven now views that music video more negatively, and thinks she went about it all wrong, made a fool of herself, and could have done a whole lot better. Way back in 1986, 1987 access to a recording of that music video wasn't exactly easy and I didn't have it like I now do on DVD, but the words of the song (that were absolutely loathed at the time by conservatives) should have been lambasted by myself as well. At least that particular phrase. Yes, The Raven knows what is out there in the world, AND NO GIRL SHOULD PANDER TO THE LOWEST, LOWEST BASIC INSTINCTS OF GUYS TOO MUCH. At least, no nice girl worth her salt should offer to be used and abused.*

*I am not saying this is what TOUCH ME (I WANT TO FEEL YOUR BODY) is about. I'm saying that mentioned phrase rankles with me nowadays, and that the music video is kinda... oafish? Creates a generally bad impression? Samantha was a nice girl, the vid portrayed her as, well, a bit of a bitch?

Much better is NOTHING'S GONNA STOP ME NOW. Which is damned impossible to find on DVD, but I have had it downloaded and burned onto disc. But that doesn't quite float my boat. Doesn't have the picture clarity of store-bought material.

Anyway, Samantha caught a lot of flak from the puritans and the purists alike. At a time when Kylie Minogue (and her little colleague Tiffany) spearheaded 'bimbo pop' (to use the hated term of the enemy) and already drew a barrage of derision, there came Samantha Fox, closely followed by Sabrina and 'scandal girl' Mandy Smith, and, of course, dear young Sam Fox was the epitome of an avalanche of scandals herself, being a very well-known nude model, not just a bare-breasted Page Three girl, and the uptight holier-than-thou's (hate those!!!) threw strong opposition to her, and the others. BUT THOSE GIRLS WERE A WHOLE LOT OF FUN and if you look at the buncha weirdo shaman girlie-boys/butch-lesbian types with dog-faces and asymetrical hairstyles and pancake makeup that were prevalent in Eighties music videos, hell, they were a healthy red-blooded, warm-bodied infusion without which that whole era would have been much, much poorer. Nowadays, at least the Britneys and such have street cred, it wasn't so back then. Ungrateful world.

No, never heard of her either. Who is she? Anyway, the tabloid superstar has some really, really sexy music videos, and that's some understatement.

All started with BABY ONE MORE TIME towards the end of last century. She became a phenomenal chart-hit success unparalleled by others. Many parents saw the song as a threat to their influentiable daughters. The world was enthralled, though...

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Hot News Just In! The Raven has dug up from his stacked towers his comprehensive Britney Spears disc for viewing this Valentine night. Expect much rambling/ranting/raving to ensue, 2015/02/14, 5:57:39 PM. Having a great time, just having dinner snack break, seeing so much old friends will really be in total gibbering rattle, 2015/02/14, 8:05:03 PM

BABY ONE MORE TIME: (1998) The one that kicked off the furore. A Number One hit in every country worth being called a country around the world. Schoolgirl Britney impatiently waiting for the bell, students pouring out into the hallway... My loneliness is killing me. Show me how you wanna do me... SOMETIMES: (1999) All I ever need is to hold you tight... As all-American as Mom's apple pie, right down to the guy playing catch with the dog on the beach. Video constantly reminds me of a Heart Foundation cholesterol-free margarine commercial. But she is beautiful, in a way that both your kid sister and your grandmother would agree. Wholesome, the only one of her videos the Religious Right might go for. So innocent, yet so hot, but so innocent... (YOU DRIVE ME) CRAZY: (1999) This one is a tie-in with DRIVE ME CRAZY, starring Melissa Joan Hart (who should never have grown up) and Adrienne Grenier, both appearing in the video. Britney as a waitress? Baby, thinking of you keeps me up all night! FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY BROKEN HEART: (1999) OOPS!... I DID IT AGAIN: (2000) A mission to Mars, Britney in a red latex devil-girl outfit, I'm not that innocent! LUCKY: (2000) isn't she lovely, this Hollywood girl? Much like Jennifer Aniston's movie titles coincidentally reflected upon her personal life, Britney's songs passed comment on what was happening in her life. She was heading for all kinds of romantic relationship injury at this stage, and perhaps already felt not as fortunate as her public image would suggest. Beautifully filmed, highly glamorous video has Britney besides herself, trying to warn her vainglorious self of brokenhearted time up ahead. Isn't she lucky, this Hollywood girl? But if there's nothing missing in my life, why do these tears come at night? Everything echoes the tabloid headlines and gossip columns. STRONGER: (2000) A personal favorite. Britney at her best! Out in the thunderstorm in her computerized Ford Mustang with the lightning coming down, up at the party in the penthouse suite of the tower where she dismisses her cheating boyfriend's choice with a 'Whatever', the chair, which she uses as a prop in a multitude of ways, the bridge... This classic has it all! DON'T LET ME BE THE LAST TO KNOW: (2000) I'M A SLAVE 4 U: (2001) Song has a completely different sound. Video is, like, totally outrageous, completely living up to Britney being the Number One Sex Symbol on the planet. OVERPROTECTED: (2001) There are two versions of this. In one, Britney disparagingly watches a female TV news presenter announcing to the world the latest public Britney faux pas {comparisons to follow, 2015/02/20, 9:52:11 PM} I'M NOT A GIRL, NOT YET A WOMAN: (2002) Earth and her beautiful child. Magnificent view as blue-jeaned Britney sits on the edge of a cliff. All I can think of, is that if i had been the cameraman, I'd have been worried about her. Don't fall off! Features scenes from her movie CROSSROADS unfortunately in wrong aspect ratio, why doesn't anybody try to stamp out the evil that is Wrong Aspect Ratio? I LOVE ROCK AND ROLL: (2002) Has just got to be the best commercial for Marshall speakers ever shot! CROSSROADS (movie): (2002) Britney's one failure (career-wise) according to her more sexually oriented fans, was this movie, also starring Dan Ackroyd and Kim Cattrall, too many old people in what was longed for to be a sizzling hot flick. So not the kind of movie the horny young bucks wanted to see. They longed for something more, well, gee, how to state it on this family-friendly site? Erotically explicit. Like, did they expect the Princess of Pop in a porn movie? The Raven just watched it casually and it was kinda okay. Not the best, but you don't have to go yuck over it! ANTICIPATING: (2002) BOYS: (2002) ME AGAINST THE MUSIC: (2003) The one with Madonna. TOXIC: (2004) The one with those vultures-whatever flying in front of the passenger jet. And Britney in that gossamer-thin diaphanous dress. I have a revelation here that will drive the horny ones among you readers up the wall. There exists a version where Britney does it bare-breasted. I know, 'cause I almost have it. With mine, it's, wouldn't you know The Raven's rotten luck, a karaoke version, and the (expletive deleted!) writing comes up exactly where it shouldn't! (More expletives deleted! A whole lot of them!) But the real thing does obviously exist somewhere, but whoever has it, isn't sharing. Information on this? Send to RavenGlamDVDCollector@gmail.com and expect to become a millionaire if you can actually supply it to the media. EVERYTIME: (2004) Highly emotional music video shows Britney attempting suicide in a bathtub after fallout with boyfriend who is fed-up with the invasions of privacy in their rockstar-pursued-by-paparazzi relationship. Recently saw movie SPRING BREAKERS which strongly refers to this, included on the soundtrack, and I was real proud of it like never before. Notice me, take my hand... Truly, she is an angel on this Earth. OUTRAGEOUS: (2004) Problem here! My DVD version is very short, just shows Britney licking Snoop Dogg through the face. Like yuck! Why? An ice-cream, a lollipop, or Christina Aguilera, yes, but that old d*****bag? Apparently, according to research just done, Britney suffered a knee injury and the video was cancelled, with just bits and pieces shown on “Greatest Hits: My Prerogative” which is the DVD I've got. But I've just downloaded a full-length mp4 video from Tubidy.mobi which features those scenes mixed in with a long-shot dancing scene (looks like an assistant camera crew took some bootlegged far-off shot leaving the camera running) and it sure as hell is better than the almost nothing version on my disc. (I'VE JUST BEGUN) HAVING MY FUN: (2004) Video is mostly an amalgam re-edited from STRONGER, LUCKY and OOPS... I DID IT AGAIN. Because of this, maybe, the song doesn't find an audience in me. I also had to rely on low quality, the best Tubidy.mobi could offer, as VuClip didn't have it available anymore. MY PREROGATIVE: (2004) They say I'm nasty... Britney on top of the sports car's bonnet as it slowly sinks into the swimming pool. {discussion to follow soon} DO SOMETHIN': (2005) Only available in wrong aspect ratio on the sites I have access to, and being The Raven, aquila non capit muscae and all that, I refuse to bother with such dreck. Sigh. I suppose there is no other way... GIMME MORE: (2007) Downloaded this yesterday. GIMME MORE indeed! The legendary Ms. Britney Spears, huh? Well, she'd better watch out, 'cause she sure as hell is slipping here. I'm not saying I don't like it, but it doesn't do much for me. Even the occasional rear view of a stripper pole-dancing cannot really save this. Britney's best work is in her earlier years. You need to be very, very cute to have the appeal the video calls for. Enough said. PIECE OF ME: (2007) While every word is the heartfelt truth, and believe her, she would know, and she had earned the right to sing these words through overwrought bitter personal experience, this isn't my cup of tea. BREAK THE ICE: (2008) Inexcusable that this is an amalgam. From a top-selling recording artist in this day and age? Let me tell ya, Britt my girl, I often mourn that The Bangles and Bananarama (from a different era, were you even born then? You wouldn't know them, kid) didn't always have proper music videos, instead these makeshift (looks-like fan-made attempts) rehashed re-edited highlights from previous music videos... Write that off to that was way back in the Eighties when people didn't really know what they were throwing away... Brittsy girl, in twenty years' time (you will be, like, really, really old by then) there will be people going 'Whyever didn't that Britney Spears do a real music video with new material for BREAK THE ICE?' And then it will be too late! What was the problem? Bad hair day? As amalgams go, it is at least well-edited. But please, no more such shoddy work. No excuses from the Princess of Pop! LOLLIPOP: (2008 (?) Cannot place this one chronologically, but guessing it's around here. Another amalgam, pity, the song is very suggestive and all that stuff about taking off the wrapper from the lollipop sounds so phallic... WOMANIZER: (2008) Think Miley caused a sensation by going nude for WRECKING BALL? Years ago Britney already did it for WOMANIZER. Britney gets to display most of her curves in a sequence filmed separately, post-workout body-sheeny-with-sweat Britney reclining on a training horse in the gym. As if the foxy face is not enough... The rest of the video is filled chock-a-block with all kinds of sexual peccadilloes. Britney as a naughty co-worker Xeroxing herself at the photostat machine, Britney as a redheaded much-tattooed waitress whoreslut climbing onto the table to mount her objective, Britney as a horny chaffeur not exactly adhering to the rules of the road. As she leans over to make out with her passenger on the back seat, she kicks back to steer the limo with her high-heeled foot... Playboy magazine voted it Music Video of the Year. On the Net, as an mp4 download on Tubidy.mobi, the version I have on South African NOW 12, is referred to as the Canadian director's cut. Don't settle for anything less! CIRCUS: (2008) Another recent download. (Adding Britney to this list caused major Wikipedia research revealing titles I do not have on DVD) This one kicks into high gear again with a great performance. Britney shines so much she doesn't need the Bulgari! I'm like a ringleader, I call the shots... IF YOU SEEK AMY: (2009) Britney Spears Song Lyrics Spell Out Obscenity In Disguise. Okay, hands up those of you who have deciphered the hidden meaning of the song title. Heh-heh, truly, there's something very very very naughty there but if I told you, I'd get the wrath of the powers-that-be governing IMDb unleashed upon me, so simply e-mail me at RavenGlamDVDCollector@gmail.com and I'll let you in on the secret. But you most likely caught it yourself. As for the video, I sure just don't wanna see her with those self-inflated gangbusters. Yucky arrogant swine. Better she should seek Amy... Doesn't Make Any Sense, Does It? Always on the fashion forefront, Britney had those red Louboutins on her Pop Princess feet a month before they appeared on the shelves. No way she could be a desperate housewive. Yes, who knows what happens behind the white picket fences? RADAR: (2009) The song sounds silly with that 'on my radar' electronic tinny chorus effect. The words are quite better than the song itself. Lots of sexual tension in the beautifully-filmed music video with the polo horses. Notice the focusing on the horse's shanks being wrapped, the guy's boots, and Britney's fashionable footwear, first knee-length boots, then killer high heels. Love that romantic shot where the young lovers walk off up the rise into the sun. KILL THE LIGHTS: (2009) Animated, with Britney appearing as a cool intrepid spaceage adventurer which reminded me very much of Pamela Anderson's BARB WIRE, though without any violence. Originally, when constructing this entry, my source material didn't even mention this video, so now I'm doing guess-work fitting it inbetween the others. It was released 27 July 2009. 3: (2009) Oh, how daring! Caught inbetween? Lucky Spears? Geddit? Little hardcore porn joke there, but she is expressing the desire to be the meat in a sandwich. A case of misheard lyrics with me. I insist that I hear a nonsensical 'Can 1-2-3 be the bottom of 3' (yeah, laugh at me, you bastards) and when I checked it out on MetroLyrics, saw 'Peter, Paul and Mary' which is street slang for a threesome, but nowhere in the song do I hear the words. Perhaps because I do my reviews from the music videos? Anyway, that aside, it's a good one too, with naughty lyrics all leaning toward adding a partner to bedroom sexcapades. With Britney in front of you, though, what more could you possibly need? HOLD IT AGAINST ME: (2011) Has been suffering to get this on disc, thwarted when attempts to obtain a pirate copy didn't play cleanly. No official store-bought DVD found. Just downloaded and finally watched tonight. Totally space-aged clearly influenced by a Marilyn Monroe look, as blonde/white as possible. Not exactly an original title, and far from being her best work, not for lack of effort in the video though. TILL THE WORLD ENDS: (2011) in the wake of those hoary old 2012 doomsday predictions... If only Armageddon looked as beautiful... I WANNA GO: (2011) i-i-i wanna go-oh-oh all the way-ay-ay and get on my freak tonight... Britney all but gives 'em the bird at her press conference, and gropes a fan 'down there' after signing his CD case, causing him to do a back-flip like an unexpectedly-aroused kangaroo. She spots a policeman ticketing a latest model VW sports car (shameless product placement, you mean VW outbid all the others?) and flashes him, only to have to assume the position and get frisked against the car. She overcomes him, and walks away with his handcuffs as a keepsake. The paparazzi go crazy and she suddenly has her mike on its long extension cord, swinging it at them from the top of a car a la a suoerheroine. Till she knocks one down, and he breaks, revealing him to be a creepy, red-eyed android. Shame on me, there's a countdown waiting for me to erupt... She's then rescued by some big overweight ugly weird dude in a convertible and they race off... He turns out to be some kind of Satan... All in all, a typical day in the life of a rockstar princess... CRIMINAL: (2011) I don't have this one on DVD, downloaded it a while ago. A little BONNIE AND CLYDE mini-movie with Britney looking particularly winsome once you get past the weakly presented intro. Britney holding up a store? Has a completely different look from her other work, mature, gritty, wins you over the further it goes. This is how to do it, yeah, baby! WORK BITCH: (2013) No, I don't think she's dominatrix material. Song only works for me because of the attractive music video. Sounds a little bit forced, like an idea of somebody else, let's get her to do this, it screams for attention, it will sell, but it just doesn't work as smoothly as can be expected from Britney Inc. Gee, I'm not knocking it, don't get me wrong... PERFUME: (2013) I don't have this one on DVD, and just downloaded it, song doesn't do anything for me, and Britney is still too young to already be revealed as 'the old lioness' with a younger chick closing in... Better luck next time! PRETTY GIRLS: (2015) Together with Australian rap singer Iggy Azalea. New, and I'm just about to download.

{this particular entry has caused major research on Wikipedia and downloading from Tubidy.mobi which is king when they have an mp4 available, otherwise it's shaky images if you can't find it on VuClip. Don't bother to suggest YouTube, my system can't go there. Anyway, been a learning experience, I didn't realize there is so much of Britney out there I missed out on through relying solely on NOW compilations, 2015/02/13, 9:03:18 PM} {like, Wake Up, NOW, why include so many junk from questionable yucky types when great stuff from the likes of Britney is available?}

{some time ago, I noticed during my research that Britney's videos, or at least some of them, are properly represented here on IMDb, but my extensive contributions, especially synopses back then, precluded me from following up... but I have finally started, kicking off today with PERFUME and STRONGER, writing contributions fleshing out their entries here on IMDb, 2016/08/08, 8:42:40 PM}

The name Paula Abdul has a different meaning to the new generations. Hands up those of you who remember her rise to fame during the late Eighties? 1989's best music video, OPPOSITES ATTRACT, oh wow! Two steps forward, two steps back... Featured Paula dancing with a cartoon cat, how darling can you get? It ain't fiction, it's a natural fact, we go together like opposites attract...

STRAIGHT UP was one of her earliest hits. Very simplistic music video, but the song's sound is catchy. Months later, FOREVER YOUR GIRL, unfortunately not my kind of thing as far as the music video goes.

OPPOSITES ATTRACT: (1989) Baby, ain't it something how we lasted this long, you and me proving everyone wrong! Things in common, there just ain't a one, but when we get together, we have nothing but fun! MC Skat Kat (for the uninitiated among you, he is a niftily dressed cartoon cat) made a fine accomplice for Paula in this delightful award-winning music video, as colorful and energetic as to be beyond your wildest expectations. Paula is darling! The scene where Skat Kat gets kissy, is on top of her, and has her hands pinned down on the sofa as she smiles up at him, is unforgettable, and a slide of it is shown on the song's Wikipedia entry (well, last time I checked, anyway). Another highly recommended viewing experience, freely available as a download, but not on DVD. Bummer! Check out Paula dancing with Skat Kat on the rooftops! Who'd have thought we could be lovers, she makes the bed, and he steals the covers... Sweet!

Anybody who thinks Rihanna is competition for Beyoncé, go sit in the back of the class and smoke your dumb cigarettes. 100 Rihannas cannot add up to a single Beyoncé (gee, that sentence reminds me of her one flaw: She should have been single) and if you believe different, you've indeed poured too much of the Jameson, 'cause that self-destructive tattoo taxi can't even sing. Beyoncé, however, is indeed the Queen B of hip-hop. The best thing that came out of hip-hop? The only good thing that came out of hip-hop? (to be continued; look, there's a whole lot of music videos to discuss, this is gonna be a major entry, people, check back later :) okay?)

From Germany, with her big Eighties hit I'LL NEVER BE MARIA MAGDALENA, followed up by that other one that almost ruled the charts, IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, this is European disco diva Sandra. She might be lesser known on American shores, but she was a prolific performer and had a string of music videos which are easy to obtain on her DVD. Oddly enough, that is not the case with many contemporary big name American songstresses. Oh, and I said 'was' - learnt she's still active. But I'm here to talk about mostly those good ol' Eighties daze. Little Sandra Ann Lauer sang, during the Seventies, in her home language, ANDY MEIN FREUND (Andy My Friend (German is easy, nicht wahr?)) to her pet dog. How cute. Then, as the lead singer of the trio Arabesque, TAKE ME DON'T BREAK ME and MARIGOT BAY. One look at them performing and you would see the other two fade away into the far, far-off distance...

So, she went on to her solo career. Sandra is very conservative compared to most other performers on this list. There is one music video where she shows more leg than she deemed proper, but her husband was behind the camera, and he encouraged her, but she is still not quite happy with this. So don't expect any Eurotrash from her.

I'LL NEVER BE MARIA MAGDALENA: (1985) The beautiful girl from Germany. Stage performance by Sandra, and two guys in the band. The key-tarist guy looks really fed up with the world, the guitarist does back-up vocals, and Sandra wears a cool kimono-styled thingie. IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT: (1985) A men's steam room, and Sandra with her long red hair vividly offset by a string of pearls. This song almost became #1 were it not for Elton John's crooning about some Russian (guy?) Nikita. In the heat of the night, I lose control... LITTLE GIRL: Something went haywire here. This song is different, though not bad at all, but had only moderate success. The music video presented Sandra as a mother, big, big mistake. It's this creepy thing about - as far as I can make out - losing a child. There's that flouncy guy wearing a cape, he is death personified. But Sandra's young image, all her appeal, is given a back seat. No wonder it almost flopped. INNOCENT LOVE: She cringes today at the thought of this. Sht at the height of Eighties over-indulgence, before less-is-more became the trademark of elegance, here is Sandra decked out with all the jewellery but the kitchen sink dangling off of her. HI HI HI: Like, totally catchy. They sent out word they were filming a new video for Sandra, and invited her fans to make an outing of it. Expected maybe a few people. Like, man, they came in droves. Here is the result, the young star performing a concert before an adoring audience. Wow wow wow. MIDNIGHT MAN: The one with the makeup artist. Powder puffs and all. The guy in the video is the love of her life, Michael Cretu. EVERLASTING LOVE: (1987) Held the world record for most costume changes in a music video for years to come. Count them, there are many. The song was again a big hit for her. From the very start, open up your heart, be a lasting part of everlasting love... Something you'd hear only from The Raven - after the scenes were shot, they all went on a sun-drenched vacation, only to be notified that something went wrong in developing the film. They had to redo virtually everything. Problem is, they were now heavily tanned. Look at that Mediterranean lot in the music video. Ah, now you understand! STOP FOR A MINUTE: Sandra was an on-stage performer in a club scene in a popular German television detective show, TATORT, episode named "Salu Palu". Alas, the show is clearly about as hip as a dinosaur's dying breath, and the only thing worth watching would have been Sandra. This music video uses scenes from the episode featuring her, and even though that crime show is ridiculously weak, coupled with Sandra's earnest song, the music video is very watchable. But only because of Sandra. HEAVEN CAN WAIT: The sultry disco diva on the rocks. You wouldn't guess it, but she had to risk life and limb for those cliff shots, getting attacked by irate sea-gulls as a helicopter whooshed past with a cameraman hanging out. The tabloids had a field day reporting on this. SECRET LAND: (1988) St. Germain. An island that gets flooded every day without exception as the tide rises presented a race against time to get this video filmed before everybody got seriously, seriously wet. Very haunting song. Nobody knows how I try, maybe you would understand... WE'LL BE TOGETHER: (1988) The above-mentioned more-leg-shown-than-she-was-actually-comfortable-with video. Great song, you can hear her German origin and see why she was big in Japan. Long-legged Sandra, every inch a dream, with her legs bathed in electric-blue light in those crucial scenes. Days in blue and nights in fever fall in Chinatown, flames and light, a silent fire, not a single sound... Who used to cry for love, time an' time again, I used to cry for some love tonight... isn't that pretty? Can't get it on DVD? Download by searching for it on the Net. And we'll be together, with a little luck, a little luck, we'll be comin' out of the dark, say you will, say you'll come my way... Really great song, huh? It's like a wave, that touched my skin, and I'll let you stay, we'll be together... AROUND MY HEART: (1989) The video is very plain, shot in varying shades of monochrome throughout, she wears a beret, she is on top of a landmark building, very straightforward, but the song has an irresistible beat, guys. HIROSHIMA: (1990) Very little joy for me here, sorry. (LIFE MAY BE) A BIG INSANITY: (1990) I turn the TV on, with those generous hand movements. Looks to me like the Communist chick is planning to eat the Capitalist chick, but that's just my silly private observation. Dig this one. DON'T BE AGGRESSIVE: (1992) Very little joy for me here, sorry. JOHNNY WANNA LIVE: Heartfelt effort by Sandra to do her big for Animal Anti-Cruelty Rights. Features actual footage of very nasty animal mistreatment. Not what I am about, but in the spirit of it, I wish a pox to befall those brutal hoodlums. Thanks for caring, Sandra!

Yeah, HANNAH MONTANA. But more for CAN'T BE TAMED. Hell, that's family of The Raven in that big cage. Okay, kidding aside, with her attention-grabbing WRECKING BALL, how can The Raven not be enthralled? Hopefully other music video starlets will follow suit, taking their clothes off for their art :) especially the young ones on this list :)-8 but anyway... Let's get back on track here... Er, ah...

Miley has unfortunately shown that she can go overboard pretty easily, and do stupid silly unglamorous things on stage. Keep it classy, my dear, don't go behaving like common folk. Aside from that, she is one to watch, good things might happen if this wild child can keep her act well-balanced. My money is on lots more scandalous behavior though. Please note that I do not see WRECKING BALL as something scandalous.

CAN'T BE TAMED: In captivity, being shown off to an audience, Rara Avis, the big bird. Awesome performance is a metaphor for being spotlight-weary. The unhappy creature that is the center of attention... Do check this out if you haven't seen it, but you probably have. WRECKING BALL: (2013) Unfortunately sounds false*. And the video is filled with bad acting, if that was supposed to be angst. Works out fine that she shows a lot of skin, for it is a weakly presented song. Maybe if she worked on it a bit more? Nice legs, Miley, pity about the tattoos though. The gamine haircut is bad enough... *Okay, I am retracting that. It does make me think of screeching violins, but false? No, I was a bit harsh. It's not exactly melodious, though. The attempt at looking overwrought is kinda really, really false, and I'm sticking to my guns there. This dirty old man is more interested in seeing the Hannah Montana version, if you catch my drift...;)-8

Okay, okay, only downloaded READY OR NOT last night, and at first got a chipmunky result on VuClip, I knew something had, had, had to be wrong! Shame on you VuClip! Had to settle for a 3gp slide with the song lyrics on humble Tubidy.mobi, but the sound there is dreamy. She's new on the scene, she's gonna be b-i-g, check her out, tomorrow's super-hot pop star today here at Raven's Corner!

I'm only a recent convert to Ellie... ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN: (2012) The video really is not my kind of thing at all. What were they thinking? There is this car accident, her lover is dead, she emerges from the waves as a mermaid angel, that much I can go for, but the streaming blood, oh come on, drop it! I'm saying it ruins it as a music video. The song is good, though. She's got this elfin voice. Donna Lewis revisited? BURN: (2013) I've downloaded this, but do not have it on DVD. Light, sexy-voiced, blonde, young, beautiful, and cute too - what more could The Raven want? BURN has hot lyrics but is real cool. We'll be raising our hands shining up to the sky... Shine on, baby! GOODNESS GRACIOUS: Night-time activity in Beverly Hills, from the shores of Malibu to skateboarding, hula-hoops and flueroscent-lit footwear. Throw in a convertible and blonde songstress Ellie and you've got Goodness Gracious! a catchy hit!

More from you, please, dear! I'm sure there will be lots! By 2020 she'll still be on the scene!

Yeah, yeah, finally adding her to the list after viewing POKER FACE this weekend on my South African Now 12 DVD. She churns out weirder and weirder stuff the more time goes by, but she and Miley Cyrus both had the same idea a couple of years ago: real-life platinum blonde-wigged alter egos. The most audacious performer in music videos when she first came on the scene.

People, being RavenGlamDVDCollector is a full-time job in itself, added to that, I am writing my novel about a captive Princess in a dystopian future world, PLEASE these lists take time, and extensive research, for I insist on this chronological layout, so it's constantly switching back to Wikipedia for dates, sequences, and I'm not on a computer, just my li'l BlackBerry charge-me-every-hour handheld/mobile/cellphone whatever you call it touch-screen thingie. Long story short, Gaga fans, don't hold your breaths... But as summer turns to autumn in this part of the world down under from the Real World in US and UK, I will strive to do my best providing humorous insights.