Rob Masters

We're on a bit of a fantasy journey again this week, following a little girl through some magical landscapes, complete with mermaid, magic mirrors, and a mystical door of vines. "Feral Hearts" from 2016, by the Estonian artist Kerli, and the video appears to have been shot (in part) as a tourism promo for Estonia. As far as I can tell, though, this is simply Kerli's love for her own country, and not a sponsorship deal. Which makes the whole thing several levels of awesome better.

An obsessive love song this week, from 2000, from a Belgian band.  Featuring a woman in love with some sort of alien plant thing, and her friends(?) trying to re-establish contact. I'm really not sure what the message is here - the two of them seemed quite happy, but I can see that her obsessive cutting off from the world would make people seek to intervene.   So, for your speculations, here is "Mad About You", by Hooverphonic, from 2000.  

Well, this brings us to a full year of videos, with 52 posts. I think I have covered everything from the 70s to the present day, and I have much more to come. There some real downers I have not shared yet, but they can wait until after The 19. For now, I am going to try to be a little more upbeat, so get ready for some fun. What does this anniversary bear? A track from the 80's, and one of the iconic SF-themed videos from the era. An human-looking alien, trapped on Earth, and slowly losing control of his powers, finally gets a message from space. Now all he has to do is get away from the humans who are now becoming obsessed with him. Featuring what was, for the time, cutting-edge special effects for a music video, this track carried the singer to stardom. Here is Nik Kershaw performing in "Wouldn't It Be Good" from 1984.