<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15462618.post-2219067250995092930</id><published>2009-02-12T09:19:00.005-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-12T09:32:25.602-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music videos'/><title type='text'>Life In Technicolor ii</title><content type='html'>After an album that I liked but was underwhelming in parts, Coldplay released the &lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=296910095&amp;amp;s=143455"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Prospekt's March EP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that had more blow-me-away songs for my buck. In a similar fashion, after the music videos for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Viva La Vida&lt;/span&gt; didn't really stick with me, the next video out of the &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Prospekt's March EP&lt;/span&gt; is a &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSovfzyx28"&gt;return to form&lt;/a&gt;. With a style and humour that hearkens back to the glory days of MTV, and a clever play on the "now my feet won't touch the ground" lyric, the video only adds to my love for the song (in my opinion, the best on the new album). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Coincidentally, it also reminds me of the haunting Spice Girls &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhkLKsr_NsE"&gt;music video for Viva Forever&lt;/a&gt; with all it's animated puppetry and vintage British quirkiness. Yes, I said haunting, and yes, that &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;is&lt;/span&gt; my favourite Spice Girls song...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fXSovfzyx28&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fXSovfzyx28&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15462618-2219067250995092930?l=www.nickfruhling.com%2Fblog' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSovfzyx28' title='Life In Technicolor ii'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15462618/2219067250995092930/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15462618&amp;postID=2219067250995092930&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15462618/posts/default/2219067250995092930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15462618/posts/default/2219067250995092930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.nickfruhling.com/blog/2009/02/life-in-technicolor-ii.html' title='Life In Technicolor ii'/><author><name>nick</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10278803602510797066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10166614538358194236'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry>