By Robert Emslie
There’s different kinds of car music – those which serve as sound track to your highway heroics, those which make you pine for such highway heroics, and those which make you think about the same highway heroics while booty grinding out at a club. Taio Cruz’s Fast Car represent’s the last form, and was written specifically for the American release of his 2012 album, T.YO..
That may be why the British singer/songwriter agreed to populate the video for the song with so much classic American iron, including one of the Challengers from the execrable Justin Timberlake film outing, In Time. Check out Taio and his scarf, the concrete expanses of the LA River, and a whole lotta’ Mopar after the jump.
[youtube width=”720″ height=”514″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a_sT2FvKLw[/youtube]
Source: YouTube
Jeff Glucker
Speaking of songs about cars that aren't really about cars.
[youtube ZZQqStte5bU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZQqStte5bU youtube]
"Made my driveshaft crank, made my pistons bulge, made my BABAMEFAHEEEEE!!! OHH YEAH YEAH"
Sorry. I think "Fast Car" and "song" in the same sentence, I think this:
[youtube IG79CHK1oFQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG79CHK1oFQ youtube]
[youtube dkl_Vq1SWKg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkl_Vq1SWKg youtube]
If you are going to make the effort to CGI a 1970 Challenger crashing into an immovable object, you might as well go all-out with the Vanishing Point tribute and switch it to a Camaro at the end.
<img src="http://pics.imcdb.org/0is134/vanishingpointart1.4093.jpg">
How about this rallying cry for rallying?
[youtube i8d7noYAbxU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8d7noYAbxU youtube]
Wait, that's not what "Gravel Pit" is referring to?
"Wrecking" a Classic Car and a resto mod for the sake of a so-so video? I'll stick with my two favorite kinds of music, country and western.