This post is a meaningful recap of the most bloggable music video memes of the last several blog weeks. I just want 2 find innovative ways for artists 2 express one song in video format.
r music videos ‘dead’?
Video: The Presets – If I Know You
I haven’t ever really listened to the Presets too indepth, except for this one Lifelike remix of them. But I have heard that they are ‘amazing’ live, and they probs are. N e ways, this music video is pretty meaningful bc it was directed by the same person who made M83’s “Kim and Jessie.” I think I can really identify with this music video because I am a teen from the suburbs who wants to go to the city and ‘get my dance on’ but then also get meaningful at a beach bonfire.
<3 serious videos for electronic music <3
<3 packs of dancing tweens searching for meaning <3
Video: The Pains of Being Pure At Heart – Everything With You
Think I might start 2 like this band because they sound like ______ and _______ (references to miscellaneous shoegazy artists from the past 100 years). The video is kinda meaningful. I wonder if that is actually the band, or just stock footage of meaningful tweens. Does n e 1 know? Do u think they sound ‘good’ or just kind of ‘plain’ and ‘not as good as the stuff from the past that people say they sound like’?
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The following 2 videos are representative of the future of music video gimmicks and technology
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Seen n e pixelated-core videos lately?
Video: Chairlift – Evident Utensil
Video: Kanye West – Welcome to Heartbreak
These two videos are really pixelated. I think it is an emerging aesthetic, probably facilitated by some sort of update to a program that was made by Adobe Inc. It’s kinda confusing. Makes me feel like my computer is messing up, but I think that’s a metaphor for how our whole lives’ are sooo pixel based these days. Not sure what I’d do without pixels. Feel like life would be pretty boring/a little bit too paper-based. Do yall think that MGMT and Dan Deacon wish this technology was available 1 year ago?
N e ways… seen ne keut music vids lately?
Which 1 of these is ur favourite? I think mine is defs the Presets, mainly because I am usually a shirtless tween dancing around Los Angeles. But u might be a pixelated bro, so who knows what u will prefer.
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@person who is first. find greater meaning.
friendly fires have meaningful packing kernels blown around them in ’skele boi’.
they stick to them in a kind of building of from the ’skele’
yr call crls
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//////////Reply by Super Awesome Guy
//////////Posted February 18th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
@Henderson (real nme), this is the bestest new video for LIARS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfjcMC4zbbE
or the new Fever Ray vid
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//////////Reply by Henderson (real nme)
//////////Posted February 19th, 2009 at 12:31 am
@Super Awesome Guy, am i a liar??
nooo
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//////////Reply by Super Awesome Guy
//////////Posted February 19th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
@Henderson (real nme), heh no, but that band is.
h8 music vids.
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weak post carles
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//////////Reply by monster
//////////Posted February 18th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
@um, ur weak
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3OSoBFzhLI&eurl=http://www.tumblr.com/dashboard/2/79214183&feature=player_embedded
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Lol filler, i enjoy it.
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In a way, it’s quite the opposite to a new After Effects filter or something. This is video glitch, its aesthetic comes from software failures.
Like many things, it’s been quite popular in the (video) art field before emerging in mainindiestream commercial videos.
Example : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnvWQ3LQwxY
Example : http://www.popmodernism.org/appropirate/
I can tell that it feels weird… it’s a bit like your Justice Cola post… I’m happy the world recognizes that glitch was cool, but is it still “my thing” now ?
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//////////Reply by Yhancik
//////////Posted February 18th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
@myself,
how could I forget that The Presets did already did it like 2 or 3 years ago : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HIGJZyGWJU
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chairlift, u sound like feist. get ur own voice.
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the ballet guy looks a little “light” in the “loaferz”
“lol”
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Your blog was mentioned on this radio show
http://www.br-online.de/bayern2/zuendfunk/zuendfunk-kolumne-musik-thema-222-ID1234955807663.xml
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Fever Ray – When I Grow Up
http://mvmvmv.tumblr.com/post/78828117/fever-ray-when-i-grow-up
Kap Bambino – Red Sign
http://mvmvmv.tumblr.com/post/78107820/kap-bambino-red-sign
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That Kanye video makes me want to sad panda. Its like they rendered the video wrong and it was all fucked up, but they were high, so they said fuck it… lets release it.
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i <3 the presets and all of my “friends” judge me
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love that pogo video by those digital bros
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Presets suck. Friendly Fires suck. Animal Collective is only “okay” because everything else sucks. As soon as something slightly better comes out I’m deleting all my AnCo mp3s (there’s 7 of them from all their albums of EP which I have kept).
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//////////Reply by monster
//////////Posted February 18th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
@INDIEface, Black Lips – 200 Million Thousand already leaked. get that
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//////////Reply by Super Awesome Guy
//////////Posted February 18th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
@monster, go for black dice instead
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//////////Reply by grant golland
//////////Posted February 18th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
@Super Awesome Guy, black dice has INSANE videos
http://www.vimeo.com/2596233
more n00dz
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I <3 shoegaze music when I’m giving meaningful tugjobs.
Specifically Fleeting Joys.
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//////////Reply by colander
//////////Posted February 18th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
@Hannah, so poignant
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I think this is worth blogging about:
http://www.vimeo.com/3237836
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//////////Reply by Switters
//////////Posted February 18th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
@Maristella, LOL
i only made it to 27 tho
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Portugal. The Man had a pretty cool music video. I think the song is called 1989. I’m not positive.
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Lady Gaga’s new video for “LoveGame” was bloggable for me.
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//////////Reply by wtf
//////////Posted February 18th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
@John Bryant,
i can’t believe you just said that
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//////////Reply by Jessicauthentic.
//////////Posted February 18th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
@wtf, Lady Gaga is gorgeous. There’s no denying that.
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//////////Reply by syl
//////////Posted February 18th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
@Jessicauthentic.,
eww
http://20.media.tumblr.com/6fmeZsLUrk1tfwh0y8trokcwo1_400.jpg
lol @ warhmmr 40k in presets vid
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http://www.vimeo.com/1309646
its for a Late of the Pier song. i’ve never heard any of their other stuff and my impression of them was always that they were just a crystal castles ripoff, but this video is pretty entertaining. the “is this life?” part reminds me a lot of that youtube video of the kid coming home from the dentist on way a lot of drugs and they do some fun stuff with the camera.
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I think this video is a metaphor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4keJM031zuk
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VmD8laCDic
^^^^^^
found this anco vid the other day, and whether or not its a metaphor isnt even a question yall. so meaningful, srsly.
do yall remember back in like 2kwhatever when all videos used the widescreen bars at the top and bottom to play another vid?? ie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNTSHMxi5_s just skip like a minute in yall. i wonder if this was some kind of metaphor on the part of hype williams?
i def see the pixelvid becoming thee music video meme of early 2k9.
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my favorite is the ‘pet shop boys’ one
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i don’t rly like those pixellated 1s
but they were wai kewler with 3-Dxc0r3 glassez
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Radiohead did the “wacky pixel” thing like 20 years ago when In Rainbows came out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-BofoJcjF4
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Luv that presets song. Can download the heartbreak remix of it over here: http://tinyurl.com/dja6q2
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this < takeshi murata
example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVdpiq4lS0o
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yah i guess u could say the presets are good live if you like watching a drummer play with a laptop running and some guy trying to do vocals
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this is kanye’s “madonna/ray of light” moment except without the yoga.
rly glad i don’t have 2 hate him anymore L)
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Kid Cudi is the dood right now. kanye, still a fag
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