Video: Ssion: "Ah Ma"
Ssion's cult of Ffun (as Andy Beta pointed out five years ago, it rhymes) needs converts. In this case, per the YouTube blurb, Cody Critcheloe's mom has got it goin' on. The Ssion frontman has a background in visual art as well as in music, and he brings both sets of skills to bear in the clip for Fool's Gold's "Ah Ma", which he wrote and directed. Critcheloe appears in the trashy, decadent, and mustachioed guise you might recognize from the Fool's Gold album cover, terrifying an androgynous "Ma" figure with a bleach-and-booze makeover. Then it's time for a cigarette and a skronky guitar solo over the rickety, reggae-flavored backing. "Now, I'm a mama's boy, but I still wanna cuss and fight," Critcheloe sneers as the video goes from black-and-white to somewhere over the rainbow. So there's nothing left to do but enjoy an Oedipal slow dance with mannish Mumsy. "That's what I do," the guy who brought you "Street Jizz" concludes. "That's who I am." I'm just a little disappointed he didn't name this "The Mother Load".
[from Fool's Gold; out now on Sleazetone]