A Spring Bear Music Celebration

The Bear Blog wakes up from hibernation to lumber on lazily! Time to fatten up with a post about spring celebration and dancing and music with my favorite music videos featuring bears. First, the Exciters, who taught us there is no love stronger than the love between three women and a grizzly (not sure what the dude's game is...):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah-tui1ubnU

Next come a bunch of nerds from California who apparently got shipwrecked on an island with a freighter of baby zoo animals. Look pleasant to you? Carefully listen to the lyrics of Weezer's "Island in the Sun" and it may open your eyes. What you thought was a pleasant tale about some lame vacay to Italy or some shit like that is actually a harrowing tale a holiday cruise shipwrecked. As the food supplies diminish dementia combined with the inevitable malaria set in and he "can't control my brain". Then baby animals start appearing and no one is sure if these are hallucinations brought on from extreme guilt (cause they had to eat three band members already) or if they are actually there and the horde of angry mothers is a moment away from their own feast. Kinda Gilligan's Island/Lord of the Flies. Oh yeah, and there's bears. (or is there???)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C3zgYW_FAM

English alt rock band Muse's most successful US hit "Uprising" speaks to a deep fear within all of us: A total and coordinated uprising of bears against humanity and civilization. This video features no real bears. In lieu of, bear insurgents are replaced by the manifestations of the band's bear fears: large reptilian eyed, fanged teddy bears. In an interview with lead vocalist Matthew Bellamy that I just made up, the singer states "Nothing is scarier than bears. This song is supposed to display their primal glory and to remind humanity that human civilization is temporary. Bears are forever."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KQmps-Sog

Lastly and most definitely leastly, it leaves me with great disgust and shame to offer you my final selection: Miley Cyrus' performance of "We Can't Stop" at the MTV Video Music Awards with a bunch of people in bear suits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFLv9Ns1EuQ

While I do not like this video very much, it does encompass all the bearemotions of the previous videos: doomed love, dementia, and primal fear. Ol' girl Miley jumps out of a big bear's belly as if being born as a tiny bear. But as a human stripper, she realizes she will never be part of bearomance. This sadness, nay, despair, sends her into a spiral of insanity as bears around her shamelessly flaunt their loins, displaying what she may never possess. Her mental stability degrades into paranoia and fear (I mean just look at her face) until she hits rock bottom and starts hanging out with people like Robin Thicke and other recently hired NFL refs. Email me something scarier than this and I will mail you a bear statue. And did you see that part where she killed and ate bunch of salmon? It was there.

So you can probably guess from that last video that after two videos I was already scraping the bottom of the barrel for bear videos, especially with real bears. Why is this? Is it fear? Certainly we can forgive Muse for this since they are obviously and justifiably terrified of bears and thus rely on cg. Or is it that artists think bears have no rhythm and thus no place in music videos? Where are the Nelly videos of bears in thong bikinis hanging out by the pools of mansions? Does Nelly have a black and white view of bears e.g. awesome at catching salmon/suck at tip drills? COUNTERPOINTS FUCKERS:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiKWDliOTtc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCjXLvmeOIo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqKPswqyPrc

So what are your favourite bear music videos???