Does anyone remember Lady Sovereign, the spunky little British girl rapper with an attitude, responsible for this hit? No? Okay, well I do. More on that later. But first, here is her new music video for “I Got You Dancing”, which is pretty ridiculous. I think her reputation for being a nightmare may have caused some cuts in her music video budget, because this is the type of video a post-apocalyptic Brownie troop would make (and, as mentioned in the comments, a tribute to The Warriors). In some scenes, the S.O.V. is dressed like a zombie breakdancer or a broke-down Pocahontas, and, in others, she has 80′s Jennifer Grey hair…borderline 90′s soccer mom hair. The song itself is a saggy, old version of the Lady Sovereign sound, but this time employing an innovative technology called “auto-tune.”
She REALLY wants us to know she’s British. “I gawht you dawncing gawht you duh-duh-dooyin it.” Personal anecdote: Lady Sovereign was the first “star” I was supposed to interview for my gig back at AOL.
I was sooo nervous about the shoot, since it was our first one, and I had done all my research and listened to her album for hours on end. When she arrived, her first stop was the studio where she was supposed to record a few live songs for us. 4 hours later, she had yet to record a song – because she was constantly complaining about the microphone and wanted a sandwich. There was no doubt: this girl was a total brat. In the weeks and months to come, we saw news item after news item about Lady and her bratty antics (brantics?). I figured the world had refused to condone such behavior, and we’d never hear from her again. Anyway, the only reason I bring this up, is because, last week, Videogum posted this leaked video from a website called Gametap, and it’s pretty amazing. Like my experience, apparently Lady rendered her visit to Gametap so un-usable they couldn’t even get her to deliver enough content for a less-than-60-second video spot. This is what they made (perhaps as an inside joke) with what they did get:
