Cobra Starship： Guilty Pleasure - Cobra Starship： Guilty Pleasure

What this video is

Released October 25, 2007, as a single from ¡Viva la Cobra! (Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen/Atlantic), 'Guilty Pleasure' sits at the intersection of emo, power pop, and emerging electropop — a period when the Fueled By Ramen/Decaydance roster (Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, Paramore) was aggressively crossing over from alternative to mainstream MTV and radio. Cobra Starship, formed in New York City, exemplified the…

Why it matters

A transitional artifact documenting the mid-2000s emo-to-electropop migration. 'Guilty Pleasure' prefigures Cobra Starship's later commercial peak ('Good Girls Go Bad,' 2009) and represents the genre's adoption of club-ready production aesthetics and self-aware, playful video storytelling —…

The director

Victoria Asher (born January 20, 1986), also known as Vicky-T, is the keytarist of Cobra Starship and a filmmaker. She studied film at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, working under directors Michel Gondry and Terry Gilliam during her studies. She directed…