Black Bars

Every few years nudity cycles back as the easiest gesture in a music video, and Make the Girl Dance went full-throttle with it for ’Baby, Baby, Baby.’ They sent models running through Paris wearing nothing but geometric black censoring bars—bars that somehow stayed choreographed into the movement like they were part of the costume.

What caught me was that the bars became a visual element in their own right, not just a tool. They’re designed, almost sculptural, definitely not rushed pixelation. The whole thing commits without apology, which is probably why the Illuminati jokes landed so perfectly—the video’s already doing the work of being slightly insane.

It’s a very European move. Unbothered, visually exact, a little absurd. The nudity almost becomes secondary to the gesture itself. I respect that kind of commitment to an idea this ridiculous.