I ain't even got no fancy way to put this. The video looks just like the videos for "Can't Believe It", and "Chopped N Skrewed". All that's changed is the guest appearance between the 3 (Lil' Wayne, Ludacris, and Chris Brown respectively). The only video in which he's ventured away from the green screen, only to add the same circus effects that are seen in the 3 aforementioned videos, was "Karaoke", which is not even credited as a single from T-Pain's third album, Thr33 Ringz.
Don't get me wrong though, I'm not challenging the songs themselves. While "Can't Believe It" and "Freeze" lack depth, they both are catchy tunes guaranteed to get backs off of the walls at parties, and "Chopped N Skrewed" is just a surprisingly great song all around. It takes a popular concept in music (the chopped and screwed effect, which slows music down, while "chopping" the lyrics, made famous by late Texas DJ, DJ Screw) and adds a twist to it; women in the club who are misleading, a scenario I'm sure many men have experienced, all the while covering a great instrumental, and Ludacris' lyrical genius is the icing on the cake. But the singles being great songs doesn't cover for the fact that the videos are tremendously unoriginal.
But this only proves my theory correct. Originality in today's music, does not sell. And I apologize for the mediocre quality of the "Freeze" video, but it was the only full, official video on YouTube able to be embedded. -Trufe
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