Watch She & Him's Zooey Deschanel-Directed "I Could've Been Your Girl" Video
Zooey "Is That Rain?" Deschanel has directed a painfully adorable new video for She & Him's new Volume 3 (out now) single "I Could've Been Your Girl." As debuted earlier today on Deschanel's website (which I didn't previously know but am completely unsurprised to learn is called Hello Giggles), the video was reportedly inspired by Zooey's favorite musicals from the 1960s… because of course, right?
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Check it out in the media gallery above (keep your eyes peeled for M. Ward's dutiful cameo) and let me know what you think in the comments below.
As expected 2011, brought music fans a mind-numbing indulgence of overrated pop tarts, overhyped DJs, overplayed Top 40 radio, and a barrage of other pseudo-talents who are "over" in all sorts of other ways. No, don't through out your AM/FM or unsubscribe from Spotify just yet... there was plenty of great music bubbling beneath the unsavory surface this year. In the spirit of old-school, tried and true musicianship, we're giving a shout-out to some of the real musical talents of 2011, from the breakout upstarts to the reliable staples.
No. 1 & 2: Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
Though they were largely out of sight/mind during the middle chunk of 2011, Reznor and Ross book-ended the year with two major artistic and commercial achievements: their debut film score for director David Fincher's The Social Network landed the duo (two-thirds of Reznor's post-Nine Inch Nails project How To Destroy Angels, which also includes Reznor's wife, singer Mariqeen Maandig) well-deserved Golden Globe and Academy Award wins. Fast-forward to this month, and they're back at it again, nabbing another Golden Globe (and Oscar, inevitably) nomination for their work on Fincher's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
Most film score's enter and leave our psyches without announcement, but Trent and Atticus' music is much different—a unique blend of found sounds, treated instruments, and subtle electronics, the duo's film work is an always haunting, usually ambient, and expertly evocative mix of old school Nine Inch Nails style creepiness, early '80s post-punk/industrial minimalism, and post-modern classical sensibilities. Previously known exclusively for his heavy-hitting industrial pop gargantuanism, Reznor has almost completely reinvented himself as an inventive, precise, meticulous cinematic storyteller in his own right. Whether or not their second film score outperforms the first, these two announced themselves—creatively and commercially—in a huge way this year.
"Hand Covers Bruise" (The Social Network)
"What If We Could?" (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo)
"Immigrant Song" (feat. Karen O) (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo)
Stop by ology.com/musictomorrow afternoon, when we'll be sharing more of our picks for Musicians of the Year.
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