shut up and let me go

sorry i've been on hiatus from my blog (not to mention sleep) for the past couple days b/c it's the last week of school. here's a cool video.

i can't embed it, but you can view it here
"shut up and let me go" by the ting tings
somewhat reminiscent of the white stripes...but this girl can actually sing. lol

this song was first featured in an apple ipod commercial by tbwa this past april:


the ting tings are a couple of brits named katie white and jules de martino and this song is the third release from their debut album, 'we started nothing,' and is classified as dance-pop.

Accoring to wikipedia,

The music video for "Shut Up and Let Me Go" was directed by Alex and Liane for Factory Films. Filmed in one day, the video features the Ting Tings performing kung fu and uses a variety of hand gestures to transition from scene to scene. The video begins with Katie White and Jules De Martino arm wrestling in a black, white, and pink room. They are then shown in a studio fighting on a grassy set. Various scenes of White and De Martino in front of colourful backgrounds are intercut throughout the video.

Directors Alex and Liane described the video as "a bit over-ambitious" because of its fight scenes which "were just so time consuming to get right". The various hand gestures were inspired by the Neoist art movement.

The video debuted on MTV in the United States on June 13, 2008. It was nominated for 2008 MTV Video Music Awards for Video of the Year and won for Best UK Video.