This is a recap of popular recent bloggy/bloghouse/conceptual/indie rock music videos.
Music Video: Futurecop! – Karate Kids
Analysis: The song is repetitive and more tolerable than you would expect for a song ‘that is rlly repetitive.’ The video is an aggregation of meaningful 80s movies that make me wish I was born before 1990 so that I could remember these iconic movies. Kinda sad that movies these days are sooo ghey/predictable/not THAT great. Miss times when movies were ‘larger than life’ and not just a gimmick that ended up costing u $40 per person after snacks + drinks. The video ends with Jon Candy in ‘Uncle Buck.’ laters.
Music Video: Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero
Analysis: I never really listened to this song, just kind of skipped around the video for a few seconds. I remember the YYYs came out with that song about some1 ‘not loving u like I love u’ and it was kinda catchy and good enough to be mainstream. But this video kind of seems like they are ‘pretending to be a really popular band’ and also ‘making music that is aggressive enough to feel like you have to take it seriously, yet unidentifiable for both alternative and mainstream consumers.’ Never really got my attention and just felt like generalizing it and ‘hoping that I am right.’ Will they sell albums? Is Karen O authentic, or just a ‘cookie cutter alternative diva’?
Music Video: Calvin Harris – I’m Not Alone
Analysis: I remember when Calvin Harris was just a guy with a bloghouse single about ‘having all of the girls’ or something. I think this song seems like some sort of Euro-techno-bro-house music. While I could be ‘impressed’ with his ‘epic sounds’ and ‘musical progression as an artist’, I will probably not listen to this song again and probably enjoy a remix of the song by an authentic blogcentric remixer more than the original. The video is pretty ‘whatever.’
Music Video: Winter Gloves – Let Me Drive
Analysis: I don’t really ‘like’ this song or video or have ever heard of this band/will ever hear of them again. But it sort of just reminds me of alternative life before the internet really ‘took over’ the indie music landscape. I think a younger, more alternatively naive version of me would have thought that this video was ‘cool’ and that the song had all of the elements of an ‘authentic indie band’ (keyboards, bearded bro with glasses, aggressively earnest lyrics). Miss those days. Maybe we were more drawn to bands like this because there was ‘less crap’ to sift through, so it was less pressure on us and more time to find bands to be ‘tolerable.’ These days, I only want greatness.
Music Video: Bloody Beetroots (Ft Steve Aoki with original vocals) – WARP
Analysis: I think this song is a ‘banger.’ I think the brand of the song is supposed to be HARD. There is an angry AZN man yelling at the camera sometimes. I wonder if this new brand of bangerelectro is like the modern, niche version of ’slipknot’ for kids who aren’t as poor as the kids who got really into hardXcore rock. I sort of wish I lived in the greater Los Angeles area, and had the opportunity to be a slow-motion alt ‘partying to this song’ in the video. Feel like I probably would have twittered about how much fun I was having while I was at the video shoot. Not sure if I would put this song ‘on my iPod’ but might play it if I were a bangerrific DJ. For a more critical, well-informed opinion on this music video, visit Big Stereo, where the blogger uses phrases/sentences including “Slo-mo cookie cutter hipsters” and “Bloody Beetroots come off as a pale reflection of better times spent with Vitalic.” One time I wrote a blog post about Steve Aoki that was ‘epic.’ Maybe I should read it again and react to it with my current state of mind. h8 being ’s0 fickle/flighty.’ just trying 2 stay relevant. but n e ways… I think this video is a ‘mockumentary’ or something.
Music Video: Smashing Pumpkins – Today (Morgan Freeman + VISA remix)
Analysis: Can’t believe the Smashing Pumpkins ’sold out’ and let VISA use their song in their commercial. jk. happy 4 them. Billy Corgan seems like a chill bro who has been through a lot [via 1979 tonight, tonight]. Kinda sad how we’re all getting older and music ‘that was cool during our youth’ is being used to encourage us to buy stuff with money that we don’t have. h8 marketing. sad on the inside. Need to buy a flat screen tv to cheer myself up. Might also buy ‘a wii’ and ’some marijuana/lean.’
Have yall seen n e good music videos lately?
Just trying 2 stay relevant and identify
This has been a music video recap by Carles. Carles is a full time student at a high level digital arts graduate program. He is also a Teaching Assistant for Digital Media 101:Lessons in Photoshop, InDesign, and iMovie.
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34 Comments
damn, i remember the ice cream truck thing
can’t remember if i ever masturbated to it, was there a girl in that video
think i’m thinking of aerosmith
so confused
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//////////Reply by tao
//////////Posted March 25th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
@tao, re ‘today’
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//////////Reply by kidA
//////////Posted March 25th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
@tao, theres a lot of girls, and they’re all ‘deep’ and ‘troubled’ and just want to ‘forget it all’ and ‘fuck’ in a ‘meadow’.
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youtube hasn’t been working 4 me 2day. i’m kinda ‘worried’. what if it’s another government conspiracy?
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//////////Reply by von colander
//////////Posted March 25th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
@Marina, make sure you dont have some malware shit going on. sites werent working for me once and that was why. not to ’scare’ u
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//////////Reply by Marina
//////////Posted March 25th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
@von colander, i have a firewall running at all times + antivir (daily updated). i think it’s just my isp. i hope it’s just my isp.
by the way, my favourite 1.9k80s film is Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy music video.
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BB vid fucks my shit up and makes me rly depressed bc i kno i’l never do anything as cool as that
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First.
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but yeah, it took me approx. 15.4 listens on the YYY song before I knew if I liked it or not. as with crls, it seemed almost defiantly indistinct at first, which pissed me off
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‘it’s five o’clock somewhere’
-salem
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Winter Gloves = Montréal
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<3 Carles
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Steve Aoki scares me
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That BB track is just a shity version of an Altern-8 track.
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//////////Reply by Arnaud
//////////Posted March 25th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
@Gavin McInnes, That BB track is just a mashup of Dominator by Human Resource & Raven or Cornelius (for the little “hey! hey!”).
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Winter Gloves is a great band. Was able to interview them before they went to SxSW. They’re very chill bros.
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ppl do <3 YYY’s. they good ‘in theory’. they sound ‘right’. they sound ‘good’. but soooooo boring don’t think i ever made it through a ‘whole song’. we should all ‘expect greatness’ like carles.
lol at weenie hipster chestbutt in BB clip. i almost spat out my blue dye
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H8 when you only have a month to enjoy a band, then they’re scheduled to be on the next SNL.. pretty soon the next ipod commerical… oh well, Phoenix was fun while it lasted.
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//////////Reply by cp
//////////Posted March 25th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
@Tyler Durden, you only had a month to enjoy Phoenix?!?!?!?!?!!(1)
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god you bitch a lot
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but you post good videos so it makes up for it sort of
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thanks for posting my vid, hope you enjoyed
shameless plug? you better believe it.
for more TNUC check out
myspace.com/drewlusk
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i hate white people– via steve aoki
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the future cop song is rpttv BUT i cant stop listening to itttt
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Lightspeed Champion made a cool video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rMwc10uNOg
his music is meaningful and makes me think
about life n shit
and its 10 minutes long which is pretty authentic if u ask me
its like his music is too meaningful to be in a 3 minute video or something like that
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Aoki is so dumb. I wish a chill bro would elbow me in the cheek.
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LOL @ the awesome European Vacation reference
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i like the new cavly harris
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BACK BROS
i go 2 a demanding liberal arts school so i almost never have time to read HRO any more, but I snuck some posts in. I just gotta say I only watch vimeo vids so next time u should probs just forget about the utube stuff cuz nobody with a rlly authentic brand would bother w/ that stuff and u gotta think about ur audience’s brand alligences b4 u make ur self look rlly zany by posting that crazy utube stuff. cuz utube is like rlly old rite.
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wow good to see hoovers will never die as the cheesiest of all cheese
mebbe i should sell my alpha juno 2 as a SWEET BANGER ANTHEM on craigslist instead of a hard house staple (do people still listen to that???)
also really tired of 80s nostalgia thx
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carles, AnCo remixes YYY
but i still dunno how i should feel bout them
i mean, AnCo must like them, right?
dunno wut to think
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Thnk u 4 relevant rvwz
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love how YYY filmed that video in san francisco.
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karen O = cool mom
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oh man, aoki did again, he’s redefining pathetism in each new dim mak release
and bb… pretending to be cool playing the oversampled rave siren with a little phatty, c’mon guys, buy a voyager!
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aoki …. what a prick
yeah dude … BB … what a waste of time
buy a voyager and fuck off
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bb video is fucking weak
i kept ffwd going anytime I saw steve gheyoki to see if the song got any better and it didn’t.
h8 u direction of ‘bangerz’. do not like where ur taking me.
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It is a little disheartening to know the future of Wika search. ,
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To be sure, it is not democracy in its dangerous and original sense that Spencer adulates. ,
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