Happy Hump Day! Once again, I’m filling in for Don Durito and continuing my theme of music nominated at awards shows. This week, I’m sharing the music videos nominated at the Makeup and Hair Stylists Guild Awards.
I begin with the same artist I began with last week, Katy Perry, this time in “Swish Swish,” which was nominated for both Makeup and Hair Styling in a Commercial or Music Video.
Starring Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Molly Shannon, Terry Crews, Hafþór Júlíus “Thor” Björnsson, Bill Walton, Rich Eisen, Gatan Matarazzo, Jenna Ushkowitz, Christine Sydelko, Dexter Mayfield, Doug The Pug, Russel “Backpack Kid” Horning, Iris Kyle, Rob Gronkowski, Karl-Anthony Towns, Joey Chestnut, the ladies of GLOW (Sydelle Noel, Britney Young, Kia Stevens, Jackie Tohn), Carter Wilkerson, West Hollywood Cheerleaders, Amanda LaCount, and Nugget as herself.
Just like last week, Katy Perry was competing with Pink, this time for her collaboration with Eminem, Revenge. Unfortunately, the actual video is not available. As Breathe Heavy reported, Pink Scrapped The Music Video For Her Eminem-Assisted Track “Revenge”.
Pink will not allow her “Revenge” music video to see the light of day.
The singer filmed a visual for her Eminem collab, a track about getting even with a cheater, but she decided to leave it on the cutting room floor? Why? It was “terrible.”
“We shot it and it was terrible. It’s never coming out,” Pink confirmed to The Sun. “It just didn’t work and it was the wrong timing for it.”
Oh, well, enough people saw it that it was nominated for Best Make-up in a Commercial or Music Video, although we won’t. Since this diary is about the music more than the visuals, here’s the censored audio.
Follow over the jump for the other two nominated music videos.
Competing against both Katy Perry and Pink for Best Make-up in a Commercial or Music Video was “Run” by the Foo Fighters.
Yes, that’s the Foo Fighters under all that makeup.
The final music video nominee was Selena Gomez for Best Hair Styling in a Commercial or Music Video.
Yes, that’s Selena Gomez playing four different roles with lots of wigs.
Unfortunately, none of the music videos won. Instead, one of the commercials they were competing against took home both the Make-up and Hair Styling trophies. I’ll reveal it in the comments.
Before I do, I’m concluding the diary proper by quoting Don Durito.
For those of you wondering how I and Neon Vincent are circumventing Sucuri to embed videos, here is an example of the embed code we use, so that you can replicate as wanted:
Just remember that each unique 11-digit video code in YouTube needs to be pasted in two separate locations within the embed code in order for your video to show up properly. So easy that I can do it!
With those instructions, feel free to post your favorite videos (preferably with good hair, makeup, and costumes 🙂 in the comments.
In honor of both the winner of Make-Up and Hair Styling trophies for commercials, which was the ad campaign for “American Horror Story: Cult” and for the return of “The Walking Dead” on Sunday, here is The Walking Dead Cocktail from Tipsy Bartender.
The bartender is now taking requests.
I may be a zombie after drinking that one!
Yeah, you probably will be. I have more zombie drinks on my blog here, here, and here. Would you like me to post one of them?
Go for it!
Very well, since I wrote “the bartender is now taking requests” and I consider that a request, I’ll comply. From Drink and Drive with “The Walking Dead”, here is Walking Dead Cocktail – “Grave Denial” by Tipsy Bartender.
This is the second drink inspired by “The Walking Dead” posted to Tipsy Bartender’s YouTube account, but it was the first one I used. That’s the reverse of the drink in the tip(sy) jar, which was the first posted to YouTube but the second I used.
Thanks for this. I hope some folks chime in. Sorry for being so inactive, myself. Had multiple crises and still dealing with the fallout. Long story.
Hey, letting you deal with real life is why I posted this diary. Would you like me to post one next week, too?
Please. Feel free. I took on an extra adjunct assignment and have been dealing with some family crises. The payout from the former will be worth the trouble, but the latter has truly drained me. Long story. I’m afraid at the moment, any diary I did would be filled with vintage Fields of the Nephilim videos – and I would not want to subject you all to that.
O.K. I’ll do it. I’m sure I can come up with something more popular than “vintage Fields of the Nephilim videos.” And I thought my love of Shriekback was obscure!
Ah, Shriekback. Now that brings up memories. Not too many bands would dare to work in the word parthenogenesis into a song lyric, and in a way that made sense no less! My memory is a bit rusty, but I recall that one of them was a former Gang of Four member (ah, another band that put together some fascinating tunes – and another reason I was so thankful for college radio back during my high school days).
“Not too many bands would dare to work in the word parthenogenesis into a song lyric, and in a way that made sense no less!”
You mean this one?
My M.S. Thesis was on the fossil snails and clams of Rancho La Brea and I researched parthenogenesis in mollusks as part of my Ph.D. Dissertation, so “Nemesis” qualified as my theme song.
“I recall that one of them was a former Gang of Four member”
Dave Allen. The main singer, Barry Andrews, was formerly of XTC.
As I wrote above, the ad campaign for “American Horror Story: Cult” won both the make-up and hair styling awards for commercials and music videos. Here are the trailer and official preview. Both of them highlight the relevance of the current season to the fear inspired by Trump’s America.