Have you ever wondered what life is like for an American Idol? We sure have. After what must be an almost unbearable pressure cooker (the show itself), the Idol, universally agreed to be America's greatest singing talent, has to record and release a best-selling album and, then--on top of that!--has to tour to support his or her product. What a unique, unknowable experience it must be for a young singer!

Well, now, thanks to the magic that is Framed, you and your friends will be able to share what appear to be the innermost thoughts of our current American Idol, Jordin Sparks. Jordin has just released her first album and the video we're looking at is for "Tattoo," her first single.  And, amazingly, Jordin Sparks herself will walk you through the video, giving you unprecedented insight into the world of American Idolhood!

It's the kind of service we like providing our readers, and probably the reason everyone is talking 'bout Framed. You will be, too, and--if you're of a mind--feel free

One of the biggest musical events of the year was High School Musical 2, Disney's sequel to High School Musical. How a significant part of commercial pop music came to be directed at young teens and pre-teens is a subject for another blog, someone else's blog--we're only in this for the stills we can pull from the video.  Well, those and the hard liquor.

But quite a peppy video it is!  It features Zac Efrin, Vanessa Hudgens and Olesya Rulin--you may know them better as Troy, Gabriella, and Kelsi--performing "You Are The Music In Me," but saying, basically, "Hey, kids, let's put on a show!" You know, something like the Beatles used to do back in the old days.  While the song itself is so innocuous as to be evil, the video--the real point of this exercise--is the sort of charming romp that plays well with the kids, God bless 'em.

So we're happy to present High School Musical 2 as this week's Framed. As always, we welcome your comments--we pore over all of them studiously and actually

If you want to find great music videos, Y! Music is the place to go!  We were sitting around one night last week, reading all the great blogs here, when we noticed this at the top of the page:

Good Enough?  Actually, Evanescence's new video is GREAT!

Wow! It was almost like Y! Music had come alive and was taking us by the hand, directing us to the next installment of Framed.  Moreover, it was a clever play on words, because the name of the song in the video is... hold on, now, you're gonna love this... "Good Enough!"

I tell you, you couldn't write this stuff.  Not unless you work for Y! Music!  Which we do!

Anyway, we took the bait and checked out the new vid, and it's every bit as good as promised.  It's the new single from their '06 album, The Open Door, and, even though chanteuse Amy Lee is the only member of the band actually in the video, it's still great.  Things start melting, then bursting into flame, while Amy plays the piano... basically, it's like humanity's collective dream

When we heard that Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam's sensational singer, had a new video out, we told the team to slip that baby into Framed rotation right away. We're pretty heavy into cultural icons around here.

But imagine our surprise when we found out that Eddie doesn't actually appear in the video! It turns out that it's a song from the new, Sean Penn-directed film, Into The Wild, for which Eddie wrote most of the songs, and even played most of the instruments himself. Well, we were a little chagrined, and we yelled at our new Sri Lankan crew (Llewellyn, Warren and Cindy) for not telling us this was really a movie video instead of a music video.  But we don't speak much Sri Lankan, and they don't speak much English, so there you go.

With deadline looming, we've decided to go with it, since the excellent captions were already written. And we have read the book the movie is based on, and it was great, so maybe the movie is great, too.  In fact, we're sure it is.

So please enjoy this