PB&Jams: Carried Away
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but music videos pretty much suck these days. It’s not even worth the three clicks it takes to find the video for anything from Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse,” which features a pyramid of Twinkies in a bedazzled Egyptian wonderland to Jason Derulo’s “Talk Dirty,” with its nearly naked girls pretending to play the trumpet (okay. you’re right, no one expected that video to be worth watching at all anyway).
Needless to say, it’s pretty rare to find a video that is worth re-watching and even rarer to find one that you repeatedly pull up on YouTube to show your friends, saying “it’s SUCH a good song and the video is really clever!” In the essence of full disclosure though, most of my friends have been subject to my mix CDs that they didn’t necessarily ask for. Or have been roped into listening to music they may or may not like just because they’re stuck on a road trip with me. Or if they happen to be hanging out in a 30-foot radius of my iTunes library.
Anyway, I digress.
This week I’d like to direct your attention (this is assuming that I have someone’s attention/someone is reading this/this is not just my forum for talking to myself about music) to Passion Pit’s video for “Carried Away.” At this point, I feel like Passion Pit has started to become a household name. Then again, maybe I just think this because a mix CD that always plays at Alpha Chi starts with the song “Little Secrets” from their first full-length album, but I also spend way too much time there.
Regardless of whether you’ve been listening to the band since their first EP debuted with “Sleepyhead” or still haven’t heard of them, you have to check out the “Carried Away” video. It’s one of the singles off their most recent album “Gossamer,” released in 2011 (whoa, clearly time for a new album…).
The video stars lead vocalist Michael Angelakos and actress Sophia Bush (remember her from “One Tree Hill”) as an extremely well-dressed couple, whose ups and downs manifest themselves in several surreal experiences. In one instance, a ring makes Angelakos disappear and in another, a fishing rod pulls Bush out of bed. I think we’ve all had experiences where we’ve wanted to scoop people up and out of the picture with a red solo cup (1:31) or wanted to take back what we’ve said after getting — like the couple in the video — somewhat “Carried Away.”