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(btw. it's not called "aping", it's called "influence", for however little you find the Beach Boys in there...)
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To each his own, but I prefer this type of added-dimension video to the ones that can get too literal. I certainly wouldn't single out early Britney or Christina as something I'd rewatch.
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I mean, the sigh during the sushi? The diorama guy-in-the-mirror? The beats of the bird's wings to one tempo, the stars -- the fact that the stars are suspended from the ceiling, while the litebrite fireworks are flush with the surface? Amazing.
I don't watch most music videos anymore because they're all very egoistic and shallow (in my opinion). In NZ they had a late-night video takeover, and they played a lot of more creative videos that I'd actually stay up to watch because many of them were like minimovies. I loved Fat Freddy's Drop "Roady", and there was one with a jack-in-the-box and airships -- it's a fantastic venue for animation. The song in all of these examples is largely a backdrop to the art, admittedly, but I don't mind that.
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You hear a lot about Beach Boys this and Beach Boys that when people talk about Grizzly Bear, but that's bullshit--even when he was in the sandbox, Brian Wilson's hunger for Top 40 glory was so great he never would have settled for such a paltry amount of hooks and such a monotonous sense of dynamics.
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Pity the song is so twee and ploddingly ordinary. Could they tap that piano any more nonstop for effect? Pecking at the same few notes like a vulture pecking at my brain? I realize they're the cool thing this week, but I wonder about the tranference of cool. Like, it sounds like something I could do! Tap tap tap tap...
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On another note, this is pretty freaking awesome...
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I think this is an awesome fan video in a different way. Band of Horses legit videos have kind of thrown in the towel on high art but are fun bc they are just having a blast. Which is also a good thing!
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But yeah, kadooz to Band of Horses as well. Woohoo for bands keepin' it real on youtube after the death of the real reason for mtv.
P.S. Here's another pretty chill band too... doing the whole legit video thing on youtube too.
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Also, this song is terrible.
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An artist, who according to an interview which came-up via a quick google hasn't been very inspired by the diminished budgets and short timeframes at his job, where he works with similar technologies, so he decided to infuse something with his artistic passion and it ended-up being this song.
I'm sure the four months he spent working on it after work and on weekends were moments of respite from his workaday world and he should be proud of the outcome, but unless he blows it or chooses otherwise, I'd say this example of his capabilities will end-up getting him another job or at least more freedom from his clients.
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