Mostly Harmless

(that is not a typo)

Here’s my beef with the director of the “Before Your Love” video: he was shooting the wrong video.

The director, Antti J., seems to have been of the opinion that the video was for “A Moment Like This,” based on his description of the concept of the video. Not once, but twice, he stated that the song was about her winning American Idol — the second time was after listening to the song at least a dozen times while shooting the video.

Of course, neither song is actually about winning AI, but AMLT certainly fits that situation better than BYL. Kelly did sing the hell out of AMLT when she won, crying in all the right spots, but that is, technically, not what the song is about.

Kelly was supposed to be shooting the video for AMLT in New York on Saturday… if they used the same director would he suddenly figure out that the first video fit AMLT better than BYL? Would he have to strain his brain to come up with a new concept for the video?

I don’t know if they actually shot the video this weekend, since the last four months of constant singing and interviewing have fried Kelly’s voice to the point that she now has nodes on her vocal chords and is under doctor’s orders to not speak at all for 4-5 days — then it will be decided if she needs more vocal rest or surgery.

Surgery would put her out of commission for at least a month and runs the risk of changing/ruining her singing voice (ala Julie Andrews), so there is a great deal of concern about her health on all the message boards.

It would be very sad indeed if her career was shorter than the actual contest that won her the recording contract, and amounted to just two songs that she didn’t even get to pick.