By now a lot of you have seen the video with Carmelo Anthony cutting his hair because he lost a video game. For those of you that haven't, here ya go:
I work in television, so I'm used to getting a lot of crap put in front of my face on a daily basis, and I can say that this is easily one of the most contrived and premeditated videos I've seen in a long time. Carmelo has his hair out of its dreds while playing, seemingly ready for a haircut JUST IN CASE. Also, and I suppose this is a smidgeon obvious, they had someone filming the damn thing with what looks like a pretty quality camera...just, you know, IN CASE he lost. Furthermore, with female guest appearances and an amazingly clean apartment for a "Don't Snitch" young guy, this thing may as well have been shot on a sound stage. I kept waiting for a boom mike to fall in from the top of the screen.
This, my dear friends, is one of the few shortcomings of Youtube. Along with that annoying "Kobe jumping over a car" clip, people are starting to use the site as a means to put up "candid" videos that really just are put out by their PR people. For the most part this sucks, so I call upon the NBA PR folks and agents to start putting out some FUNNY contrived Youtube clips.
My idea: Andrei Kirilenko doing a "complete spontaneous" lumberjack competition with fireworks and supermodels. -And that idea is pro-bono, folks. The rest will cost ya.
1 comment:
I can't say that it wasn't completely staged but I would like to say some things.
1. Melo never had dreads, they were braids. Braids have to be taken down and washed every two weeks.
2. That female guest is Lala Anthony, his now wife, at the time they were still engaged and living together...with their son. That may explain the cleanliness of the house.
You do have a good point about the quality of the camera and its presence being really convenient, though.
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