So, yeah, we’re going down…

Everybody knows where we’re goin’, vidheads. This One Republic song and video came out a while back. And, being a pretty substantial fan of punk-pop with a classical orchestral fanfare background (think Panic! At the Disco and Yellowcard – whatever happened to those guys, anyway?) this song caught my attention by radio airplay faster than you can say masquerade. After hearing it a few times and before finding out it was, in fact, a One Republic song and not a Fall Out Boy song as I had originally thought (frontman Ryan Tedder sounds a lot like Patrick Stump but, back me up on this one girls, Tedder is way hotter), I downloaded the ringtone. Alas, as anyone with a cell phone will tell you, a song can get old and overplayed superfast when the bill collectors are blowing your phone up. Do I have a point here? Not really. Just that it’s a badass song, and the choreographer and video designer/producer did an amazing job with the video’s cinematography.

Call me an old-fashioned fart if you want, but I would take tastefully-done classical settings with some pizzazz and character as opposed to the overly rampant body-baring pointless trash videos with painfully robotic dance moves ANYDAY (I’m looking at you, Lady Gaga). Plus, you can’t help but love the Artful Dodger-type kiddo picking the dancers’ and onlookers’ pockets. Anyone who’s ever seen “Oliver” will concur. What better way to fashion a music video than after an old, classic musical?

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