Well, Hanson's gone and released the first video to accompany the first single off This Time Around. Making the Video represents a bit of trailblazing on Hanson's part. They seldom let us see them so unscripted, and even more seldom are we given glimpses of their "process."

• Taylor romping around in a red wifebeater for almost a half-hour does a body good. Yours and his both.
• Ike romping around in a wifebeater isn't nearly as unpleasant as you would imagine it to be. He's skinny, but he's a strong, lithe, I-could-take-Clint-Moffatt skinny.
• Initial glimpses of Hanson armpit hair. Woah.
• I think Zac's wrestling match with David Meyers might have been more necessary later in the shoot when the director started to get testy about his "vision" for the video, but let me just say this: Zachary Hanson can man-handle me any time he likes.
• If I could make a list of 10 words I want to hear Isaac say, "shrimpy" would decidedly be in the top 5.
• The best jobs in the world: Hanson makeup artist, Hanson hair stylist, Hanson clothes picker-outer. Why? You'd be able to talk to them, brush their hair and touch them extensively without earning yourself a rebuke from Walker for your troubles. Plus, you could claim direct responsibility for certain particularly snug-fitting garments.
• Taylor drinks black coffee? What? Why? Taylor honey, didn't your mother ever tell you that that stuff stunts your growth? (Although goodness knows that hasn't seemed to have happened with you…) You must think it raises your level of coolness, because I can't imagine anyone as flawless as you dumping that tar into your system. At least put some sugar in it. But then again, you're the one lying in the ditch, right?
• God help the person searching for vintage t-shirts in the Los Angeles area. I think Taylor snapped up every last one within a ten mile radius.
• Speaking of clothing, What in Sam Hill did that boy have on his feet? They looked… beaded.
• Did everyone check out Dad Hanson, sans mustache? He's pretty handsome. Anyway…
• Isaac officially declares his insecurities about his guitar playing. Now Isaac. Hold on one minute. "Stink" is a strong word. You do not stink. Not at all. You just know your limits and stay within them. That does not mean that you are a bad/unaccomplished/inferior musician compared to Taylor, the Musical Wonderboy. John Lennon, for example, was a downright cruddy guitarist. He wrote some of the best pop melodies in history. So just calm down, all right? And stop hanging out with Jonny Lang. It's bad for your self-esteem.

Gorgeous. The stained-glass ceiling in the ballroom alone made the hotel Hanson-worthy. Throw in the gold lion and the red leather seats from the lobby and you've got yourself some serious opulence, and that's without the benefit of Taylor Hanson's face. The only mistake they made was in telling Taylor that it was Art Deco. It's Victorian, but who's going to argue with the boy in the red wifebeater? Certainly not me.

Secret party in the basement of an old hotel. Not bad. Maybe not great for a song about oppression and the question of freedom or death, but still not horrible. Things started to get sketchy on all fronts however when they threw in a gaggle of trendoid supermodels wielding glow sticks. I hate to break it to David Meyers, but this is not the Where's the Love video. The performance parts work. The party parts, the rat part, the girl-smooches-guy-in-spooky-basement part, don't. It all boils down to a rather odd, disjointed experience. Here's Isaac singing "Put on these chains and you can live a free life" as a girl screeches in fear at our rodent friend. Say what? What happened to Gus Van Sant and symbolism and surrealism and different planes of reality? One giant leap for Hansonkind. Backward into the putrid gutter of brainless teeniedom.

Talk about the nicest collection of Hanson eye candy ever paraded before our eyes. The close-ups of Taylor's face at the beginning of the video are almost shockingly beautiful, and that's thanks to his face, and not to any nifty camera work.

Well well well. Looks as though some people aren't too happy with Hanson flexing their creative muscle on their own video shoot. God forbid they take an active role in the creation of their art rather than just do what Nsync does- show up for a briefing and nod when the director tells them where to stand, what sportscar to jump into and which supermodel to smooch. David Meyers was clearly unhappy with Taylor's criticism of the "Zac finds the drums" scene. And he stayed unhappy. For the rest of the shoot. For us however, it was quite possibly the most thrilling scene of the show. Forget about the fact that Taylor used the world "disingenuous." Correctly. Forget that he was exacting and forceful and knew exactly what was cool and what was "cheesy," to use his words. In one sentence that began with "I hate to burst your bubble," Taylor put up a brick wall between Hanson and every other boyband in existence. And he did it in front of the camera.

Meyers seemed more than uncomfortable, ("This doesn't go on the camera.") at being told what was what by a 16 year-old. Also not to be underestimated here is the fact that Taylor Hanson looks the way he looks. When David Meyers walked on that set, he probably thought he was dealing with a dim-witted pretty boy, the male equivalent of Britney "too dumb to know that I'm being exploited" Spears. People, in general, don't like to have their worlds challenged like that. And for We the People of the Ecstatic Peanut Gallery, it was a Hanson moment for the ages.