The dream, in anything, is to have your cake and eat it too, and Jimmy Eat World’s The Middle video absolutely manages to do exactly that. How does it do that? By telling an emotive, all-too-relatable tale of feeling isolated, but telling it via the medium of people dancing in their underwear. The song would have been a big hit anyway – something which, unfortunately, tragedy had something to do with, as we’ll soon see – and was just as huge a success on radio, so it’s not like it’s all about the flesh on show. And, it’s a great, stirring, massive banger of a song, an upbeat pop-punk anthem about keeping on going in the face of adversity.. But, you know, it’s also got loads of good-looking people in their undercrackers. Cake both devoured and retained. So, like the woman at 1:44,...
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