Watch: Rob Thomas music video for 'Give Me The Meltdown'

Harry Potter isn't the only wizard to appear this week

By Katie Hasty Friday, Jul 17, 2009 12:27 PM

Rob Thomas in "Give Me The Meltdown"

We always appreciate somebody turning an internet tome on its head. The new music video for Rob Thomas' "Give Me The Meltdown" does just that.

Compiling seemingly authentic YouTube video of people losing their proverbial s***, the clips are funny in some ways, sad in others.

Then, mysterious forcres like spaceships and wizards show up and zap the juvenile offenders into happy, dancing submission.

The song ain't so bad either, though not as hard-rocking as tossing a full automobile skyward.

In a sidenote, the clip was sent to us declaring it a "viral video." We wouldn't mind a wizard zapping the term "viral" disappear from all internet vernacular. It just doesn't mean anything anymore, y'know?

As we already told you, the matchbox twenty frontman is going on tour in support of "Cradlesong" throughout the summer and fall, with OneRepublic, no less! Remember them!?

Katie Hasty
Managing Editor

After five years as a columnist and editor at Billboard, Katie Hasty joined HitFix in 2009 for music and film reporting out of New York. The Midwest native has worked as a writer, music promoter and in A&R since 1999 and performs with her band Numbers And Letters.