Heartbreaks and sugary love-songs might just be another chick thing, but Maroon 5, with their new video of Payphone, their hit single that aired this April and smashed quite a few bestselling charts, steps smartly out of post-breakup territory and takes pop videos up by a notch.
The new video of Payphone is a comic book version of its earlier, decidedly American procedural cop-show type video of the same song.
Screen-grab from the new Payphone video.
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The characters in the comic book version resemble the ones in the video in certain aspects, but are almost satirical spin-offs on the original. When the tattooed stud from the video takes on comic book proportions, it’s tempting to read the same as a dig at the stereotypes that the American boy band video culture has spawned.
While the original isn’t coherent in its storyline, the comic book version takes you on a trippy ride of music, action and visuals – paisa vasool, in Bollywood language.
