Video: The Cribs: "I'm a Realist"
The Cribs have needs, men have needs, women have needs, whatever. Let's be realistic here. The video for the UK band's "I'm a Realist", off of last year's Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever, suggests that men and women both need to spend plenty of time in various states of undress. "I'm a realist/ I'm a romantic," frontman Ryan Jarman sings, as a boy lip-syncs the first part and the girl lip-syncs the second, in split-screen. The two have a date tonight, you see: "2 tickets 4 the Cribs tonight." The song itself is an energetic buzzsaw rocker of the kind English bands have been churning out since the Libertines, although its playful examination of gender relations is a bit of a twist. The narrator will be leaving town soon; surely at least one gender in the clip is hoping the other one's needs don't include keeping pants on. See, there is modern romance.