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(CBS)- It's Thursday so it is time for another edition of The Feedback. Lets dig in!

Cee Lo Green has been an awfully busy man recently. He just was seen performing at Lollapalooza, is producing a new Goodie Mob album, as well as coaching on the television hit show The Voice, on top of singing for the Footloose soundtrack. So, when he says he didn't know that a music video for his song "Cry Baby" was being made, although unlikely, I might actually believe him. So who do you replace Cee Lo Green with on a music video? If you guessed Jaleel White you would be correct!

If you don't know who Jaleel White is, you probably do, and just don't know it. White, better known as Steve Urkel from the television show "Family Matters", plays the big singer in this fun and upbeat video inspired by the 1950s.

Somehow, Cee Lo's vocals are able to turn the usually painful process of breaking up into a joyous occasion, somehow.

Next up is a really cool video from the ARIA-award (Australian Record Industry Association) winning artist Wouter De Backer. He works under his recording name of Gotye and also makes up one-third of the Melbourne indie-pop band The Basics.

This track featuring vocals from Kimbra, the New Zealand singer expecting her debut album to drop September 2, is off of Gotye's forth-coming album Making Mirrors due out August 19th.

My favorite part of this video, hands down, starts at 1:30 when the walls and Gotye begin to get painted. Then cue in Kimbra, who was lurking on the side, perfectly blended in with the wall and, in my opinion it is a really cool effect. As another break up song, it definitely has a different feel than Cee Lo's track, with the emotions a bit more expected when ending a relationship.

Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" has got to be the most covered song of this summer. And I know I promised to be done posting Adele covers, but one more has come up that needs the recognition for two reasons.

First, the singer's voice in the video is awesome. She is even able to capture some of the soulful feel that Adele is best known for. The second reason is obvious once you press play, our country's armed forces. These individuals deserve every bit of praise we can give them no matter if they can sing or not. But combine their heroic and selfless actions with the soulful sounds of Adele in a down time military band, and you will be posted on the Feedback 10 times out of 10.

With a bit of a change of pace we have the music of A. Samuels, a 55-year-old casino executive who has an undeniable passion for hip hop. If you had any questions at all about Mr. Samuel and how his life is, I think this rap and music video should put to rest any of that pondering.

It is clear that Samuels is livin' de life, as he changes into expensive outfit after expensive outfit, driving luxury vehicles and enjoying the styling's of his private jet. But I do commend him for just going for it and doing what he loves, and while his rhymes may be a little silly at times, at least you know he is livin' de life.

Next up we have an absolutely incredible feat. John Taylor, an electric guitar player, set the world recorded for the fastest playing of the song "Flight of the Bumblebees" ever. He starts the video playing at a cool 170 beats per minute, which is impressive as it stands. After that shredding, Taylor speeds it up to a fast 250bmp, where the notes start to mesh coming out of the amp. Next is 350 bmp, which I would have assumed to be the end of the video had the title not given away the end speed. Cool as a clam, he strums it out at 350, and then ups it to 380 in a whirlwind of noise. Not to be stopped, Taylor conquers the next two renditions at 450 and 500 bmp without breaking a sweat. Next up is the impossible world record 600 bpm which hurts my hands just thinking about it.

Moral of the story, John Taylor can shred.

Last up for this weeks edition is a video I posted a bit earlier this week on both The Feed and over on Not Some Kid, "Backwards Rapper" by Prince Ea, a video and track so nice I had to post twice. Prince Ea, is on a mission to make smart cool, expertly crafting a verse that runs both forwards and backwards with opposite messages. This video has been absolutely blowing up all across the web, and deservedly so as his movement deserves all the attention it can get to help inject substance and meaning back into the rap game.

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