Video of Tha Moment: "Champagne Life"

So, peep game. I was watching 106 and Park earlier, trying not to fall asleep due to the fact that I be up WAY too late to be working a 9-to-5, and I caught view of the World Premier of Ne-Yo's new video, "Champagne Life".

As a big Ne-Yo fan myself, I been bumpin' the single on my iPod for about 2-3 weeks. The song itself is a hot song, and gettin' straight to the point, so is MOST of the video.

One thing I appreciate about Ne-Yo is the fact that he's a performer in what's becoming an industry full of strictly studio artists. So naturally, Ne-Yo does his thing with his usual crisp dance moves and fly ass suits, and the female dancers add that sexy aspect to the video without being raunchy and doing some ass-popping all up and down the pole. They usually be up in that place goin', pop pop pop, pop pop pop.

Sorry, got off subject.

Anywho, there is one MAJOR gripe I had with the video: what in the BLUE HELL was the point of all that ish that happened in the first three and a half minutes of the video?! It starts off with Ne-Yo and Columbus Short, both portraying supernatural characters of some sort in the back of a Maybach, talking about some shit that happened in the not-too-distant past. What they were talking about, I'm not too sure of, thanks to Short's Morpheus-like accent. Then, the scene shifts to four years earlier, and shows Ne-Yo as a garbage man along with two other garbage men meeting with Short's character under a bridge somewhere, where Short tells them how to use some undisclosed powers which they gained in an undisclosed manner. Short gives them three rules, the last of which being not to fall in love. THEN, the scene shifts to one year later (and I'm sure some people will be confused as to whether it meant one year after the four-year flashback [which it does] or one year after the initial scene), and the actual music video begins.

Um... wtf?

I'm glad Ne-Yo would like to do more acting, I'm just not sure why he chose to act out THAT scene in THIS video. I'm not sure why I just explained all of that, when you yourselves can just watch all of that below, but hey, Ne-Yo shows us with this video that sometimes, we just do shit. Enjoy.

And if you're reading this via Facebook, or if for some reason, the page cuts off half of the embedded video (like it does on my screen), just click this link, and watch the ish on YouTube. Enjizzoy!

Hehe, I said "jizz".

~Trufe