Kiesza "Hideaway" Music Video Review

How well received was the tribute to the past that is the Hideaway Music video? Find out after the jump.




Oh, how I love tributes to eras past. Our culture has shifted to an amalgam of the late 80's and the early 90's, and nothing is a better representation of that than Kiesza's Hideaway video.

It opens with our songstress exiting a cab, and sashaying onto the sidewalk. As a Jon Bernthal look-alike approaches, in his acid wash jeans, a vehicle pulls out in the back left of the video. Take a quick look at that car. Yup, its trunk is open. And not ajar; it looks like they took someone else's trunk and tried to craft a makeshift spoiler.

Kiesza's shoes are awesome. Next paragraph.

Part of the fun is watching all of the randomness happening in the background. I'm really curious if that is normal New York weird traffic or some extra eccentric passersby sprinkled in by the director.
We are now in the "nitty gritty" of the video, with not-so-Bernthal exiting after a brief encounter of the red kind, followed by a group of three back up dancers. And their garb is awesome. We have the pink lass wearing what seams to be a bathing suit covered by light blue pants and a rocking headband, we have the butch baroness in her flannel and super short shorts (those socks though) and finally, my favorite of the bunch: top pony lady. TPL is a standout because she A: has a top pony, B: wears ZUBAS pants (which I shouldn't know but I do because I'm a time traveler) and C: obviously didn't get the memo that Kiesza would be the only one wearing bright red shoes.

So Kiesza sings the "oohs" and "ahhs" in sort of an off-putting manner, and then two dancers straight out of rhythm nation join her on her journey to chase the cameraman. More dancing, and now Overall Tim comes out of a nondescript building to lankly writhe over our star. Butch Baroness is back, now only with a kickin' hat. Solo mad dance time. Watch for the Michael Jackson similarities, namely that pose. Now we are on to a magenta man who knows how to match his flannel and tank top.

The final scene is a revisit of all our favorites, including Overall Tim, now rocking a Vogue hat. Then the cab is back. So by all accounts, a normal day in NYC.

Question time.
1.) Seriously, why was that car's trunk open? I would watch an entire documentary about it.
2.) Did the director watch 8 episodes of Saved by the Bell in a row for the inspiration?
3.) What's up with all of the looming people in the background? The group of guys to the left near the beginning, the group of what seem to be random people to our right near the end.
4.) What's TPL's backstory?

This song is catchy as all get out, but we are critiquing the video. I thought it was awkward the first time I watched it, but after watching it around thirty times, it truly has grown on me. I love the fashion in the video. The dancing is sort of silly at times, but I understand it. I'm giving the video a 7.6. The singing of the oohs and ahhs really bothered me.