Music Video Cliches - No 1. Hot Girls On Drugs

I wouldn't normally squander precious seconds of my life watching a Groove Armada video, but since Popjustice's Peter Robinson described their new track 'Paper Romance' as "really good", I thought I'd take a look. Turns out he's wrong about the song. It's not very good at all. But that's not what bothers me about it. It's more the fact that the video conforms to one of the laziest music video cliches of all - namely, the attractive, druggy woman, wandering around looking dishevelled and 'edgy'....

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