HIP Year in Review: 2012
Flashback Friday – Bloodhound Gang
October 11, 2024
It was a decade ago when Adele became the first female artist to have three singles in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Also, Encyclopedia Britannica fully suspended its print edition after 244 years. In that same year, HIP’s cherished client Bon Iver won a Grammy award for Best New Artist.
Despite all the days and years that have gone by, here are the 2012 music videos we are still thinking of 10 years later:
The Lumineers – “Ho Hey” – 333M views – This HIP Year in Review immediately starts with a band, song, and video that need no introduction. This iconic breakthrough hit became an overnight success for The Lumineers, but they had been making music for many years before achieving mainstream acclaim. As most already know, “Ho Hey” is an American folk rock anthem that took a rough patch in singer-songwriter Wesley Schultz’s life and turned it into an uplifting, evergreen party-favorite singalong.
Doomtree – “Bangarang” – 1M views – Who can resist a good karaoke night? In the music video for “Bangarang,” Doomtree’s members gather around on the couch in a living room as Har Mar Superstar gives his best lip-sync karaoke performance into the TV remote of their new song displayed on the screen before him.
Dani Deahl – “Pocket Porn” – 73K views – The track for Dani Deahl’s “Pocket Porn” is surely able to bring a club to life, and that is literally what the visual shows her fierce EDM sound doing. Deahl is being chased by unidentified men in black, and when she enters a lifeless night scene trying to lose them, she takes to the DJ booth to reanimate the bodies on the floor.
Alex Cuba – “Are You?” – 61K views – It’s not easy finding the right person for you who inhabits your mind as your ideal match put on paper, but it is magical once you finally get to know them. Whether or not you have met them or not, that person is out there for each of us. This track won him a Grammy in 2013; in 2022, Alex Cuba won the Grammy for Best Latin Pop Album with Mendó.
The Polyphonic Spree – “Silver Bells” – 3.7K views – With there being numerous renditions of the Christmas classic “Silver Bells,” odds are The Polyphonic Spree’s version is unlike the rest. The song’s timeless lyrics were left untouched, but they transformed the instrumental with their symphonic rock flair, complete with strings, winds, and horns behind Tim DeLaughter’s choir-like vocals.
Trapt – “Bring It” – 1.6M views – Let Trapt’s electrifying hard rock sound take over, with their heavy, boisterous guitars and dynamic, forceful drums. Chris Brown’s gritty tone dominates “Bring It,” and the song’s message? As he put it back in 2012, it is “an F U to all those who say ‘you can’t,’ to anyone who has ever doubted you.” Trapt is on tour through January 2023, so if you were wowed by their “Bring It” music video, start looking for live shows near you.
Good Old War – “Amazing Eyes” – 405K views – HIP Year in Review 2010 got us reminiscing about Good Old War, yet here we are again in 2012. “Amazing Eyes” is a hopelessly romantic song about a guy in love with a girl who seems to be in love with him one minute but not in the next.
Xiu Xiu – “Honey-Suckle“ – 22K views – Xiu Xiu’s songwriting for “Honey-Suckle” is so raw and real that it is somewhat haunting and introspective of life’s despair.
The Fixx – “Anyone Else” – 76K views – Dating back to the days when MTV was in its prime, is the England-founded rock band The Fixx. The group has had multiple Billboard Hot 100 singles, with three No. 1 hits and five others in the Top 5. By the time The Fixx came to HIP in 2012 with the “Anyone Else” music video, they already had over three decades of rock and roll experience.
Toadies – “Summer of the Strange” – 97K views – You can’t have a song titled “Summer of the Strange” and not have a strange music video to complement it, although lead singer Vaden Todd Lewis told Loudwire in 2012 after the release of this single that he has never been a huge fan of music videos.
Cadence Weapon – “Conditioning” – 53K views – Rappers entering the industry can find themselves playing the part of the musician they think the critics, reviewers, and majority audiences would like to see and hear. Cadence Weapon fell into this trap for some of his prior productions to “Conditioning” and its respective album, Hope In Dirt City, but that was no longer the case here.
Red Wanting Blue – “Audition” – 180K views – Going out of 2012 with a bang is the music video for Red Wanting Blue “Audition.” It is a live performance video, and the stage has an intimate appeal at the Newport Music Hall in the band’s hometown in Columbus, Ohio. After “Audition,” don’t forget to listen to their latest single from summer 2022, “Hey, ’84.”
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