Jordin Sparks is more hardcore than your typical rockband.

It's wednesday morning, and the boredom of a day-off from work and customary laziness has lent itself to the watching of VH1; if nothing else than for the wonder of watching a music channel that plays music videos at SOME point of the day (the author does not recieve FUSE in his cable package.) During this exploration into a truckload of bands not to be particularily loved, but also not particularily hated, the image of a classic auto or two found itself arbitrarily plastered on the screen for effect. Two videos used classic '68 Camaro's for this effect. Daughtry utilized a '68 soft top (maybe '67, I wasn't inspired enough to care) for the singular purpose of making the frontman look more credible as a "bad ass". Perhaps someone should have informed him that a flat black hardtop with an 8-71 blower sticking out of the hood may have suited the purpose more aptly, but I digress. The next video to utilize the famed Chevrolet moniker was Safety Suit. They improved on Daughtry's feminin mistakes by utilizing a '68 SS with cowl induction and wide white rally stripes accenting the appropriate hue of blue. In both these cases, the Camaro served it's classic use in real life, making men of questionable maculine prowess into unavoidable examples of testosterone.

But all of this leads to the title phrase for this post. After seeing the two aformentioned videos (in Daughtry's case, VH1 felt is necessary to play it twice) a video panning across a lovely grass field came on the screen. Jordin Sparks name cited on the lower left of the screen, but good lord! the central character of the video is an all black DeTomaso Pantera. Not only was this mountain of car displayed in the video, but it remained a central piece of setting that commanded camera from the very first moment of the video, before even our dear Jordin made an appearence on screen.

This all leads to one pretty simple fact, directors can try and make frontmen look masculine and powerful by thrusting a typical american muscle car on the viewer. But when a director (or one could only hope, an artist) recognizes the beauty of a vehicle and utilizes that vehicle simply because it will catch the eye and draw in the viewer, that is the reason a vehicle should be used for a medium such as television (especially music television.)

For that, Jordin Sparks is more hardcore than either of the "rock" bands listed above.

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