feeling listless

Music What to do if you're a reasonably popular R&B artist with a small following but whose following is largely due to a successful sit-com. You take a break, re-group and try again. But wait Alicia Keys as established herself in your absense and taken over your territory. Oh no! How could this happen. Oh best make a video then: "Maybe that's why the video for "What About Us" is so disappointing. The growing up angle looks so, well, counterfeit. When she spends a short minute on a little platform with two mostly naked men in collars and leashes, they're painted black, she's wearing red and doing the foxy hip-sway. In Making the Video, Meyers explains, "She's looking like a bad motherf$@%$*$! Oops!" The Viacom bleep patrol grabs up this cuss word, but you know what's up: Brandy looks crazy-mean and vengeful, and sexy too, sexy like a motherf$@%$*$. Yet the men-with-collars idea isn't really so vengeful. It even looks a little silly." That'll do it...