Video Breakdown Catch Up Week ~ Day One: Scissor Sisters - Let's Have A Kiki

Partly due to the excitement of the Olympics and partly because I am a lazy little so and so at times, I am very behind on some tip top, top notch music videos that have been released in the past week or so. Well, I shall be laxidaisical no more - today spearheads a full week of analysing & probing (good word - PROBING!) every frame of videos by some of the world's biggest stars. Yes, all the live long week. And i'll kick it off with this little doozy...

Scissor Sisters ~ Let's Have A Kiki:

• The video is actually an instructional movie, much like Olivia Newton John's Physical taught me that leg warmers were amazing, and that you could lose weight while eating a chicken leg on an exercise bike...
• It's filmed at the Kiki Institute of Mental Instability. The work that is undertaken here is absolutely phenomenal - I'd go myself if I could afford it. That, and i'm not bendy enough to get into the positions that the entrance exam requires :)
• Ana Matronic is on the phone and her umbrella has done that blown inside out thing that is SO FUCKING ANNOYING. We can put a man on the moon, but we can't make an umbrella that can withstand a gentle sigh from a person walking in the opposite direction to you? LUNACY.
• Don't think that a little rain will stop Miss Ana Matronic, oh hells to the no. She is giving fierce realness as her bra top busts out of her overcoat and she details her night of woe on the phone. Johnny 5-0 better watch out...!!!
• Lock the doors, lower the blinds and watch for low flying umbrellas because Ana Matronic is coming over! And she's joined by Jake Shears who is having a little boogie behind her.
• And pull camera back to reveal the entire band, plus unfeasibly fit backing dancers, in the CoCo room of the Kiki Institute. And *SCREAM* there's a dance routine. Hallello! It's basically arms up, arms in front, crocodile snap hands on "lock the doors" and olympic muscle pose!
• Make sure you have strong arms when you do this dance routine. Remember the sage advice of Dirty Dancing - "where's my frame, where's my pleasing arms? Spaghetti arms - could you give me some attention here please? This is my dance space, that's yours. Let's KIKI!"
• Never one to shun the spotlight, at about 1m35s, Jake takes centre stage and frugs like he has never frugged before. Meanwhile, no-one has ever looked sexier shaking a tambourine than Del Marquis looks right now...
• A kiki is a party for calming all your nerves. Thank god that is cleared up. I got it so confused with Ki Ki, which is two separate words and may or may not be pronounced differently, depending on your regional dialect. I shall ask Latrice Royale.
• It is finger clicking goodness though isn't it??!
• The second verse dance routine is much more designed for your armchair aerobic fanatic and features some rather literal dance interpretations. I'm a big fan of the literal, I am :)
• If they don't lip synch for their LIVES for this in the All Stars version of RuPaul's Drag Race this autumn, then there is something seriously wrong with the universe.
• "Oh what a wonderful kiki!" Yay! It's the pause bit - hold that eleganza pose then gently shrug off how marvelous your kiki is. Don't be shy. Give it some major wrist shrugging action. All those hours pumping the fist in your bedroom will finally pay off! (2m35s)
• Ooo gurl - Ana Matronic knows how to get low (2m44s). She does a studied and careful slut drop which just oozes sexuality and kiki mental instability :D
• "Kiki! Sous Sous! Oui Oui! Non Non!" may be the most glorious element of all the glorious elements within this song. Arms up, arms down, beckon, refuse. Tres bon to the extreme.
• Del Marquis gets very bendy at around 3m25s. I have stored this away in my mind for later...
• All done in one shot, I think Jake and the band have earned his "fuck, yes" of relief at the end!!