A Boston Globe culture writer gets snippy here about Nick Cannon’s “Can I Live” video (which I wrote about here), calling it “emotionally manipulative video ripe for political exploitation” and “melodramatic.” She scoffs at his contention that the video is not “pro-life or pro-choice” but “pro-Nick.”
Sometimes videos—when they’re not just…Jessica Simpson in the “These Boots” video—tell a story. Heaven forbid it be a non-P.C. one that actually makes a controversial topic a little more human, bringing it a little closer to home, as much as a few-minute music video can.