I've been buttonholing people at parties for years to expound at great length about the awesome that is OutKast's music video work. My editors at The Atlantic let me use the occasion of Pitchfork's naming "Bombs Over Baghdad" song of the decade to expound on that shtick. I hope some of you will consider checking it out; I had a lot of fun writing it, and the videos are gorgeous. We pulled this one from Idlewild, which I think is just lovely:
As some of you may have guessed, I absolutely love music videos, and think it's something of a pity the video networks have moved so far away from them. YouTube's part of the solution, but it's an uneven one.