RADIO KILLED THE VIDEO STAR
As I was flipping through channels the other day (and btw....how about a shout-out to whomever invented the remote! I haven't seen a commercial in 13 yrs!!!) I came across a video for a band I had never heard of or seen. I don't remember which channel I saw it on - but rest assured it couldn't have been MTV.
I have to say, the song is ok....at best. But the video was great. Let's face it - there has been nothing new in music video when Pat Benatar chose to shake her little pine cones in "Love is a Battlefield".
Robert Longo's video for New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle" w/the complete acting nonsequiter in the middle was a highlight for me. Que asian woman and caucasian man w/caucasian woman looking on:
"I don't believe in reincarnation, because I refuse to come back as a bug or a rabbit!!"
"You know - you're a real UP person!"
I know that Fatboy Slim's video w/Christopher Walken is supposed to be this great great video and it was amusing, but I'm loving the OK GO's video for "Here it Goes Again"*.
I don't care if they taped it at an extremely slow speed and sped it up for effect. Though I don't know that they did. Either way, it's great. And for the life of me I cannot see/find an edit. You really have to watch the entire thing. Enjoy.
* By clicking on the OK GO link you can see a slightly better resolution of the video. I just couldn't embed it from there.
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