Vague clips of text, like "mass limp shrink," "stuck in the now," or "hyper bleak doom" are barely legible in the fleshy collages.
It would be nice if Lana Del Rey really was the mysterious polymath auteur she briefly appeared to be when the vaguely Adam clipis-like clip for Video Games started doing the rounds on the internet, rather than a female singer who's worked – like Adele, Duffy, Florence Welch and Katie Melua – with blue-chip songwriters-for-hire Eg White and Guy Chambers.
According to Tamar Antai of MTV News the video "makes vague allusions" to clips for Busta Rhymes' "Pass the Courvoisier, Part II" and Chris Brown's "Wall to Wall".
The musicians Billy Bragg and Chuck D rub shoulders with John Sayles and the environmentalist Van Jones, as if they all belonged to some vague counterculture club where clips from "Matewan" and "Do the Right Thing" flicker on the walls like an arcane language.
Mr. Kathwari is an elegant, self-contained man who speaks in the clipped, vaguely British cadences of the Indian upper class.
"I think we just saw a pterodactyl," said Argos calmly, feeling a tiny but odd grip inside his chest as though someone had nipped a paper clip on to a vague and minor part of his interior works.
Containing a vague plot, the opening scene of the clip features Usher donning a black tank top and dark jeans, while he stands in a field with the sun rising in the background.
The 2011 trailer, watchable here, features images of men fighting each other in various ways while clips of male voiceovers say vague things about duty.
Yet, to the makers of the ad, with its vague celebration of ethnic diversity and patriotism, the Ali clip may have seemed like a perfect fit: an African-American son of Louisville proudly representing his country abroad.
