{"id":807845,"date":"2020-05-27T13:24:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T19:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1005389"},"modified":"2020-05-27T13:24:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T19:24:48","slug":"melanie-c-becomes-video-game-character-in-blame-it-on-me-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/melanie-c-becomes-video-game-character-in-blame-it-on-me-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Melanie C Becomes Video Game Character in \u2018Blame It on Me\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MelC.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Choose Melanie C as your fighter in the action-packed video for new single \u201cBlame It on Me.\u201d The new track follows up her self-exploratory track \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/melanie-c-who-i-am-song-video-spice-girls-968667\/\">Who I Am<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sylvie Weber directed the visual, which sees a woman working at her office job. In between spreadsheets and files, the office worker turns to a <em>Mortal Kombat<\/em>-inspired video game on her computer where Melanie C is one of the characters. At first, the pop star is defeated by her opponent Sam. When the office worker abandons her desk, however, a Bonus Stage ensues in a setting that looks just like the gray-toned office. Melanie C has a huge comeback, winning the rounds as the rest of the workers gather around the computer to watch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlame It on Me\u201d is a disco and house-infused song that sees the pop star overcoming a toxic relationship. This is her second new single this year, and she is currently working on a new album. In 2019, her group the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/spice-girls\/\" id=\"auto-tag_spice-girls\" data-tag=\"spice-girls\">Spice Girls<\/a> reunited for the second time since they ended their first run in 2000 for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/spice-girls-reunion-dublin-840277\/\">reunion tour<\/a> (albeit, without Victoria \u201cPosh Spice\u201d Beckham).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3>Popular on Rolling Stone<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/melanie-c-blame-it-on-me-video-1005389\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choose Melanie C as your fighter in the action-packed video for new single \u201cBlame It on Me.\u201d The new track follows up her self-exploratory track \u201cWho I Am.\u201d Sylvie Weber directed the visual, which sees a woman working at her office job. In between spreadsheets and files, the office worker turns to a Mortal Kombat-inspired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 03:10:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}