Harvard Music “Sensation” Makes Weirdly Mediocre Music Video

We bring you the “Body Glow” video from international music sensation “Petros,” a.k.a. Peter Shields, Harvard ’09.  Well, he’s not really an international sensation, though we’ve gotten several emails telling us this video is all the rage in Cambridge these days.

The song is quite un-good and the video has this fake-Catholic guilt thing going on (come on, Petros, America is so over that) as Petros and his cohort rub glittery sweat all over each other and the girl has some kind of bloodied seizure and then goes to a church and then – hey! – there’s Petros like half taking off his shirt at the beach and all this interspliced with gratuitous Catholic imagery and medium-okay looking Harvard girls trying as hard as they can to dance and – wait! – at minute 1:30 the girl touches the back of her head only to find Petros’ jizzum!

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With the production values of a third-string mid-90’s R&B music video as choreographed by a third-string college dance company, the whole thing is pretty strange. The problem with shooting a music video at Harvard is that you have to use Harvard girls, who even at their prettiest aren’t exactly booty-shaking material.

“Petros” is obviously self-obsessed (his Facebook profile includes many, many links to his successes; according to himself, his main job right now is “marketing this hot chick named Brandi Carlile” but he seems more into marketing and linking to himself than to Ms. Carlile) but I still sort of wish him luck. You’ve got to hand it to “Petros”: “Body Glow” took effort, ambition, and a total lack of shame.  And it’s only bad in the way that most cultural output is bad. It’s not specifically Harvard bad. Carry on, Peter. Carry on.

  • Rudedogg

    I like the song and the girls, but the jizz scene is too much for me (and my favorite movie is “Happiness,” so that’s saying something).

  • Rudedogg

    I like the song and the girls, but the jizz scene is too much for me (and my favorite movie is “Happiness,” so that’s saying something).

  • PENN08

    hahaha, what a joke. does this guy have a high school diploma?

  • PENN08

    hahaha, what a joke. does this guy have a high school diploma?

  • non-ivies are cheaper

    He actually does, from one of the better prep schools in the area. I have a feeling his website and his divas and dons project helped him get into school. How many other applicants had a website with over 10,000 hits?

  • non-ivies are cheaper

    He actually does, from one of the better prep schools in the area. I have a feeling his website and his divas and dons project helped him get into school. How many other applicants had a website with over 10,000 hits?

  • steve

    so i’ve known petros for a long time…even if you don’t like his stuff, you’ve got to admire his drive. this stuff takes a lot of effort, and it honestly wouldn’t surprise me to see him have a very successful and lucrative career in the entertainment industry (although most likely as a producer, not a performer).

  • steve

    so i’ve known petros for a long time…even if you don’t like his stuff, you’ve got to admire his drive. this stuff takes a lot of effort, and it honestly wouldn’t surprise me to see him have a very successful and lucrative career in the entertainment industry (although most likely as a producer, not a performer).

  • 09

    Do you guys seriously have nothing better than to insult the looks of Harvard girls and just be downright mean for no good reason? Of course it’s a college video, but could you make it? And, more importantly, you criticize the “attractiveness” of these people, but could you come anywhere close to being in these girls’ leagues? No. Because they’re hot, and you probably aren’t, considering you spend your time posting on a blog rather than getting a life.

  • 09

    Do you guys seriously have nothing better than to insult the looks of Harvard girls and just be downright mean for no good reason? Of course it’s a college video, but could you make it? And, more importantly, you criticize the “attractiveness” of these people, but could you come anywhere close to being in these girls’ leagues? No. Because they’re hot, and you probably aren’t, considering you spend your time posting on a blog rather than getting a life.

  • H ’09

    Peter Shields is awesome. Though this clearly isn’t high-quality music and production, he’s talented and ambitious to put it together. Don’t player hate.

  • H ’09

    Peter Shields is awesome. Though this clearly isn’t high-quality music and production, he’s talented and ambitious to put it together. Don’t player hate.

  • 10

    I met him not long ago. He was really arrogant. If only I had known this was where he got it from…

    • Sup2010

      The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

  • 10

    I met him not long ago. He was really arrogant. If only I had known this was where he got it from…