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D'ANGELO ''Untitled (How Does It Feel)''
With his head bowed,
D'Angelo eyes his naked lower body with obsessive wonder. His
torso sways in grinding rhythm, tensing and releasing as his
mouth curls in pleasure and his eyebrows narrow to measure an
ecstatic contraction. That's just one jaw-dropping
interpretation of what's going on here. In fact, the clip
consists of nothing but close-ups of D'Angelo's buff body on the
apparent receiving end of one of life's great payoffs. It's a
measure of the video's smarm-free joy that even though the
camera puts the viewer in the pleasure-giving position, we feel
in no way manipulated or debased. Instead, it feels like a
privilege to be part of such a comfortable act of carnality. Was
it good for you, too? A
LIT ''Miserable''
Ah! That age-old woman-as-man-eater fear rears
its head again in Lit's new clip. It depicts the band members as
shrimps in the presence of Pamela Anderson Lee, who towers over
them like Gulliver. First, the guys feign mastery by playing
their instruments precariously on her rear, in her ear, and atop
a spike heel, only to end up devoured. Given the crisp
photography and ace special effects, however, male anxiety never
looked so cool. B
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE ''Sleep Now in the Fire''
Leave it to
the party poopers in Rage to turn a guilty little pleasure like
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire into a lumbering lecture on greed.
In their new video, Rage depict an installment of the hit show
wherein some Reege wannabe quizzes folks about health care and
the distribution of wealth. Imagine the fun you'd have watching
that! As part of this ''satire,'' the group contrive to get
themselves arrested (in an actual incident) by playing in front
of the New York Stock Exchange without a permit. Rage get their
wish, of course, ending up in handcuffs — the ultimate fashion
accessory for rebellion. C
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