Bad-Girl Videos

Enough already of all that goody-two-shoes Zen stuff - it's time to go to the other side, the dark side, and explore some of the more untoward aspects of our nature. Therefore, tonight's edition of Friday Night Videos is dedicated to the bad girls, the poor role models, the ones who show us how to behave badly as well as the consequences of that bad behavior. Bad girls: they'll take you to heaven but give you hell.

Paul Schaffer once said that Karen O of the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs is "rad bad," so we'll open with this spooky video from them:

Bad, rad bad to be sure, but still not bad enough. So here's bad-girl Susan Sarandon at an concert by Atlanta's Of Montreal earlier this year dressed like a school-teacher and spanking dudes dressed as pigs because why not?

But the bad girls can take us still deeper into the allure, and the wages, of sin. This interesting video is by a band called Cinnamon Chasers and condenses an entire virtual movie into 5 minutes and 14 seconds, exploring themes of passion and recrimination, crime and karma. And, oh yes, one very, very bad girl.

Speaking of recriminations, here's a video by Marta and Dandi of Fan Death, ominously titled Cannibal. I posted a video by Fan Death here once before, but this one goes in a whole 'nother direction. While Marta and Dandi themselves do not behave so badly here, consider that they are the ones who conceived of this whole dark fantasy.

All of this is not to take anything away from the street cred of the ultimate bad girl, this evening's winner, oddly-coiffed South African sexpot Yo-landi Vi$$er of Die Antwoord. According to Pitchfork, Die Antwoord "are at the forefront of a manic, potty-mouthed form of South African rave-inspired hip-hop music called Zef. This three-piece act makes the people on Jersey Shore look downright normal. In the true post-modern spirit, it's hard to tell exactly where the joke stops and the real starts with these guys, which is probably why Die Antwoord is already drawing international attention." They are rude and antisocial, and yet you can't take your eyes off of them. So to close, here's a video of Yo-landi and co-rapper Ninja talking dirty in a taxicab. You've been warned, so now go and enjoy.