This isn't my favorite Charli XCX song, but it might contain my favorite Charli XCX chorus and this is definitely my favorite video of hers so far. I liked it throughout, but the clip of Quinn Fabray crying at the end sealed it for me. Unfortunately, I'm just not that crazy about Brooke Candy. I don't hate her or anything, but I don't think she fits in the song very well. I liked her a lot more when she was just strutting around being a weirdo in that Grimes video.
Eli & Fur is one of the most promising acts of the moody and a bit scary subset of pop. And by scary, I don't mean Fever Ray scary. I mean music that just makes you go, "Ooh, dark!... but pretty!" I think some people have settled on the name noir pop, but I can't keep up with genre names. The duo have only graced us with a couple of songs so far (unless I'm wrong which is entirely possible), the really rather brilliant "Sea of Stars" from earlier this year and the possibly even more amazing "Tonight" from not so earlier this year.
They've also just plonked the video for "Tonight" online. It's an old-fashioned smoke and flashing lights affair, but the simple concept works very well in this case and suits the tone of the song perfectly. And you can clearly see that the girls play their own instruments which earns them at least ten points on the authenticity scale, if that sort of thing is important to you (It shouldn't be).
So, to sum it all up, Eli & Fur is incredible and will probably be even more incredible next year. And the video is good. Well done, everyone involved.
I've already talked about how brilliant this song is right here. And now there's a video to go along with it. Now you can take a break from looking at Tumblr while listening to music. The video features the Queen looking perfect and amazing in lots of different great outfits. That shirt with the forest on it is really good, right?
Oh, and Popjustice made a joke about Skyfall being the movie she is standing in front of. That got me thinking that Queen of Hearts should definitely do the next Bond theme. Unless Daniel Craig and decent directors are done with Bond after this one and the movies go back to being terrible. Although Madonna did a song for one of the terrible ones and the song was still really good so maybe it doesn't matter.
