Music Video Hell #7: Dirty Heads Feat. Rome of Sublime w/ Rome
Now that MTV has about as much to do with music as KFC has to do with Kentucky, the Internet has become our primary source for music videos. With the Internet, though, there is no filter. It’s hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. Well here, damas y caballeros, is the chaff. It’s your penance for a lifetime of sins: Music Video Hell.
There are so many things to hate about this video by Dirty Heads featuring Rome of Sublime with Rome. First of all: Rome of Sublime with Rome. I was never that big a Sublime fan back in their heyday, but I am an anomaly among my friends and peers in that regard. Lots of people liked Sublime. That is why the wheels of capitalism have kept on turning well past former lead singer Bradley Nowell’s death, keeping the band in motion like the reanimated corpse of bad reggae-rock.
I don’t know who Rome is, other than some guy who apparently sounds vaguely like Bradley Nowell. My hopes that it would be douchebag sports commentator Jim Rome were quickly dashed while watching the video. I’m still not sure which one of the Future Jimmy Buffetts of America in this video was actually Rome, but I’m positive that none of them will have their own show on ESPN anytime soon. Unless, that is, ultimate Frisbee finally gains the popularity it so richly deserves.
The video for “Lay Me Down” follows a couple of privileged-looking young white people who, by the lyrics to the song, we presume to be a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde, only without any of the elements that made Bonnie and Clyde interesting. Attention songwriters: two lovers on the run from the law? It’s been done. If you don’t have anything new to bring to the table, then write about something else. Suggestion to spice the old formula up a bit: one of the lovers is novelty songwriter and avowed illegal immigrant hater Ray Stevens, who in an ironic twist of fate is forced to flee across the border after being framed for a murder he didn’t commit.
What makes the video really irritating, though, aside from featuring guest vocals from the guy pissing on Bradley Nowell’s grave, is the patronizing tone it takes towards the locals in what appears to be the sort of Mexican border town to which lazy writers like to have their protagonists escape. Just check out the screenshot of one of the band members showing one of the locals how to make the “shaka” sign with her hand. She should make a fist and punch that condescending asshole in the balls. If this were a real Mexican border town, drug cartel goons would decapitate those poser dipshits and drop their heads off on the other side of the fence just to show the DEA what’s up. Now THAT would make a compelling video.
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This is one of the most ignorant things I have ever read. You obviously like to see yourself in print and write about things you know nothing about.
The Dirty Heads are some of the nicest most genuine people you will ever meet. Rome too, is a great guy.This was ACTUALLY was filmed in Mexico, not some fake town. The little girl has a huge smile on her face and is sincerely enjoying herself.
Not sure why I even wasted my time responding to your stupid rant, but I thought you might want to know how foolish it made you look.
It appears that Rome was sitting around googling “Rome of Sublime w/ Rome” this morning.
Sorry, Rome.
I agree- those dudes are really nice guys. Once they made me cookies. You know how much I like cookies. COOOKIES!!! IN MY TUMMY!!! COOKIES PLUS TUMMY EQUALS HAPPINESS! So obviously my opinion is for sale.
They made me cookies, too, but I found the cookies to be a bit dry and bland. That’s why I have a vendetta against them now. They will pay for their mediocre cookies.
Holy LOLZ!
Speaking of which–we haven’t spoken to Scott Stapp in forever–that guy used to troll our shit all the time back in the assaultblog.com days!
We must’ve lost him when we changed the domain. Scott Stapp is an easily confused man.
If Scott Stapp comes out with a new video I’m all over it. Hopefully it would involve him being shirtless in some capacity.
http://www.assault.it/2009/10/28/review-creed-full-circlea/
Haha, awesome. It’s funny how the worst bands have the angriest supporters.
Hey! Those talentless turds are really NICE people! How ignorant you sound when you express distaste for their music! Because nice people are inherently good at everything and should never be challenged to achieve a higher standard. You idiot!