Making new strides in the Poison Porn music video subgenre is AFI and their clip for "Beautiful Thieves," a song culled from the rock act's latest "Crash Love."
Katie Hasty
<p>Making new strides in the Poison Porn music video subgenre is AFI and their clip for "Beautiful Thieves," a song culled from the rock act's latest "Crash Love."</p>
<p>The band has been invited to play a bourgie black-tie cocktail party that inches its way toward the sexier and scarier. Coke (not the cola) makes a cameo, hot girls designed after evil robot Dita Von Teese crawl out of their white dresses and into pools. Like any good goth purveyors, death is designed to look very pretty.</p>
<p>I'll be honest here: I've never have been a wild fan of AFI, due to the <em>dramatis personæ </em>of frontman Davey Havok and his voice. It's like he read a "Dummies" guide to mugging and singing like a rock star but never quite settled on a single sound. But here, he's wild, and even croon-y, though his mic move around 1:14 reduces me to a fit of giggles.</p>
<p>"Beautiful Thieves" is the follow-up single to "Medicate," released aaaaall the way back in August and did pretty well for itself. "Crash Love" started at No. 12 on The Billboard 200 back in 2009.</p>
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Watch: AFI are poisonous in 'Beautiful Thieves' music video
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Watch: AFI are bad houseguests in 'Beautiful Thieves' video
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