It May Not Be Summer

It may not be summer, but I'm in the mood for some camp!

Lately, I've been watching two videos incessantly, and they're so stellar, I figure I ought to share them.

The first video I found on YouTube when hunting for Eurovision songs. If you aren't familiar, Eurovision is a popular annual competition in Europe; each country sends a song to represent it and battle it out in a sort of American Idol style competition, with the winner determined by call-in votes from across the continent. Generally the entries are pop ballads and other formulaic compositions, but sometimes a nation will take a risk and try something unconventional. Leave it to Latvia to not only enter a novelty band, but a pirate novelty band.

My favorite lyric: "We are robbing you blind, I hope you don't mind." Evidently, an easy rhyme justifies an absurd request. "Wolves of the Sea" by Pirates of the Sea finished twelfth out of twenty-five in Eurovision's final round. There couldn't possibly be eleven songs better than that hot mess.

The next video is by MGMT, a band that put out three of my favorite songs of 2008. Though "The Youth" was not one of those three, I'm prepared to reconsider now that I've seen the video, which features four kids who embody apathy and awkwardness simultaneously. Each kid has a striking face -- not attractive, yet not unattractive, just distinctive. There's no shortage of glitter and sequins as these kids poorly perform some ill-advised choreography. It's inexplicably captivating, I swear:


Which one do you prefer?