FINALLY the video is out, and it is amazeballs. Sudden #20->#1 jump warning for XXXO.

Before Guy Ritchie started calling Vadge Madonna “it”, he used to love her. I think. (Weirdo.) And that’s when he’s made his most amazing piece of visual art, which is the official video to “What it feels like for a girl”. Set to a dub mix with barely any vocals left (and with the Charlotte Gainsbourg bit intact!!!!), this video wasn’t shown on many (mostly American) TV stations due to its content. Slightly violent and irresponsible you could say. (I love the Ol Kuntz home.)

But tonight, thanks to Popjustice forums, I have found out that Guy Ritchie made something even better in his career. Yes. That’s right. There exists a Guy Ritchie-directed… thing… that’s better than the What It Feels Like For A Girl video.

Here it is.

I Miss You UK CD1

The sixth single off Björk’s second album Post had an animated video — directed by John Kricfalusi/Spümc?, creator of Ren & Skimpy — which was colourful and appealed to children. It’s just that the content of the video wasn’t up to the parental visions of what cartoons should look like. Chicken torn into pieces, animated characters frantically searching for their genitals and moving condoms implanted as if by magic where Björk’s boobies should have been were considered too shocking — as a result the video was often aired in its censored, rubberboobie-less version — or not at all.

The song itself is probably my favourite Björk single. It is also one of her smallest chart successes (no doubt largely due to the fact it was the sixth single off a platinum selling #2 album) peaking at #34. Produced by Howie B, the single featured a plethora of shittylicious remixes (strangely enough Björk’s remixes were comparable in their shiteness only to Pet Shop Boys’ remixes — it’s quite amazing how both those artists managed to inspire the world’s best remixers’ worst achievements). The song’s vocals have been re-recorded for the remastered version of Post and the result was disastrous. It is quite sad how such a great track attracted such bad luck — but the amazingness of the video more than makes up for it.

Watch the video: