Posted by Katherine St Asaph on 03/15/2012 at 3:28 PM Videos

The Popdust Files: b.o.b, so good, spoiler alert, video previews

With increasing frequency, artists are taking to social networks and premiering frustratingly brief teaser clips from their upcoming videos. These are usually between zero and 45 seconds in length and tend to do two things: leave you wanting more video, and leave you wanting fewer teasers. We can’t address the latter. What we can do, however, is help with the former, so, based solely on the preview, Popdust will miraculously predict what transpires in the unseen full-length video.

Today’s video teaser: B.o.B’s “So Good.”

Run-length: 39 seconds, although only 22 of those are actually the video and not padding.

Summary: B.o.B’s lady has a guidebook, and B.o.B has the magical ability to whisk them both away to any place in that guidebook in a single shot. Also, whenever they travel, they wear white.

What could come next: B.o.B’s lady is rather impressed by how he can Reading Rainbow their lives, so he does it a bunch more. But what he doesn’t realize is that if you take too many leaps into the globetrotting, so-good alternate universe, you’re stuck there. This doesn’t seem like a problem, and indeed, neither he nor she think it is, until B.o.B notices exactly which shorts and which hat he’s wearing. Then it’s a problem. It’s a first-class cabin fever problem. Eventually, after a lot of frantic travel and na-na-nas, things will get back to normal–until, that is, B.o.B decides to actually try out the spinning-the-globe-and-visiting-an-arbitrary-spot trick. That’ll be the alternate version. Because of course there’ll be one.