This post is intended to be a ‘recap’ of meaningful music videos of the past blog month, and perform analysis on the portrayal of the artists.
Video: Julian Casablancas – PHRAZES FOR THE YOUNG (PREVIEW)
Analysis: This is a new project by the lead singer of the Strokes bro. Wonder what it is going to sound like. Seems sort of ‘deep’ but will possibly become ‘over commercialized.’ I think he has collabed on some other crap, and it ’sounded good’ possibly. I feel like I will decide not to listen to it, because it will become a topic that people who aren’t connected to the music memesphere will talk about, like ‘dude man, did you hear Julian has a new album coming out?’ and they will probably actually go out and ‘physically purchase it.’ Will probably not listen to it, and might ‘resent’ the first video.
The music sort of sounds like a mix of ‘the Strokes’ with a little bit of ‘guy who makes music that was obviously produced in GarageBand.’ Feel bad for the Strokes. Not sure if they will ever be able to break free of ‘what they represented’ when they first came out, in terms of The Strokes being ’so cool’ or something.
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Music Video: Miike Snow – Burial
Analysis: I think that after the success of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, this video aesthetic is trying to take us to some ‘brown part of the world’ where life is more simple. In the video, the whole town rallies around this little trophy of the Miike Snow logo, and I think it represents some sort of deity. Like they are ‘worshiping God’ as a bro parades the trophy through the streets. Life seems hard in this video, like there are no cafes with wifi in a nearby area. Think that the song is ‘good’ and could possibly be utilized in meaningful indie soundtracks. Like when a bro is finding himself, or possibly ‘losing’ a keut girl and staring into the camera.
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Music Video: The Dead Weather – Treat Me Like Your Mother
Analysis: I first heard about the Dead Weather when they advertised on my favourite website. I ‘googled’ them and found out that Jack White was in their band. I think that this video is supposed to be ‘hardXcore.’ I feel weird about Jack White. Not sure if I know any one who ‘likes the white stripes’, but I think that he seems like a good musician–like a guy who knows how to guitar solo. I think every one heard that one song that was like ‘dun, dun dun dun, dun dun, dun’, but I’m not sure if I could name another Jack White song.
This video seems like it is supposed to be Xtreme, and possibly ‘reference’ a now socially unacceptable era of film. The video seems ‘angry’ or something. The music seems ‘good,’ but like not sure if I would listen to it while doing a ‘normal activity in my daily life.’ Feel like there might be a huge market of ‘regular people’ who would listen to it while they were socially drinking and barbeque-ing, possibly. They might also listen to Queens of the Stone Age, or Foo Fighters or something. Those bans sell ‘tons of records.’
This video is important to me because it was filmed in the vacant lot behind my suburban childhood neighborhood. Kinda sad that they are about to start constructing apartments there now. Might bring down the property value if too many ‘poors’ move in.
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Music Video: Calvin Harris – Ready for the Weekend
Analysis: I remember when Calvin Harris first came out, he seemed ‘very blog house’ to me. But then I think his new album is the sort of album that ‘people in Europe get really into.’ Like if you went there, this would be the song that gets people pumped up for a soccer game, and every one knows the lyrics, but you’re like ‘I don’t ‘get’ why this is good.’ Think that things are ‘very different’ in Europe, and they value different aesthetics, but artists can make ‘a shit ton’ of money if they ‘get big’ in the UK, and then find success in other pop-oriented Euro countries.
This music video is supposed to be ‘artistic.’ Seems like tons of stuff must have been done ‘in post production.’ The song seems ‘catchy’ but not entirely ‘listenable’, more like a song in a Target commercial or something.
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Music Video: VITALIC – Your Disco Song
Analysis: I think Vitalic made electro techno music before there were computers. I think that their music is supposed to be ‘absurd’ or something. Have only heard them on the Party Monster soundtrack, back when I was trying to ‘learn what it would be like to move to NYC and become part of a relevant party scene.’ This song seems like it is intended to sound ’self-aware.’ There is a broad who has a disco ball surgically attached to her skull. Think she ‘lives to party’ and she just wants to ‘disco so fucking hard.’ Then she eventually goes to a surgeon and gets ‘disco tits.’
Seems like a solid commitment to ‘a scene.’
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Music Video: Rye Rye (ft M.I.A.) – Bang
Analysis: I think that this video is supposed to look like it is part of ‘black culture’ but intended for ‘white people simulating their interest in black culture to seem cultured.’ M.I.A. is in this video. I don’t think that the song is ‘good.’ It sounds too much like ‘black culture’ for me to get into, so I feel like they possibly achieved their aesthetic. I’m not sure if I really enjoy pure African American culture, or if I prefer to be friends/partake in African Americans who ‘don’t seem as black.’ What types of black people do you prefer?
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Have yall seen n e good music videos lately?
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//////////Reply by Mari
//////////Posted July 16th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
@Mari, fuck yes. feel like i can take over the world.
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3rd
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There’s more to disco than a mirrored head and a pair of disco tits. You need to feel the funk, the boogie.
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do what the song say
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& all this time i thought carles was a blipster
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julian video:
pretty good, ‘nicely done’, the music can be done fiddling with ableton for a couple hours.
miiek snow:
‘trying too hard’ 2 be ‘meaningful’ + ripping off slumdog trillionaire
jack white vid:
sounds like anything else by the blow lines, vid is ‘kewl’
calvin bro:
overplayed formula, might want to get some new ‘plugins’ or ‘vsts’ + vid is boring
vitalic:
nice vid, but you ‘ripped off crimewave’
MIA vid:
‘not available in my country’. crap.
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//////////Reply by runningcolors
//////////Posted July 17th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
@crapster, pretty much sums it up.
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rye rye / mia — bang… is that a new dance, lemme learn the moves, slow that vid down a bit. i am having a seizure. is this vid/song 2 years overdue??
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can M.I.A. make a single without making a gun sound?
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//////////Reply by d-bag
//////////Posted July 17th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
@chong, she’s allowed to. ‘thats what she grew up listening to when she woke up’. she knows ‘how it is’, and she really ‘experienced life’ in a third world country, not in suburbia lik the rest of you. thats is why shes ’so humble and creative’
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//////////Reply by Charles
//////////Posted July 18th, 2009 at 2:49 am
@d-bag, she should make a song about guns with beats made entirely of gun shots and instead of lyrics she’ll make gun noises with her mouth.
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oh c’mon, the bass line in the jack white vid is sic
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Think that beat takeshi video takes place in Varanasi. Kind of hate that city. The ghats are stunning but most of the people are “gigantic assholes.” It’s also the only place in India I saw people carrying around shotguns+stealing some bros clothes and throwing them in the Ganga.
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Mmm this blog was alright, I like the whole disco tits. Not enough to get little disco squares attached to my scalp though…Or on my nipples.
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//////////Reply by we tigers
//////////Posted July 17th, 2009 at 6:43 am
@Spoons,
The Mighty Boosh did disco balls a few years ago in the gorilla episode.
‘Look at them shine!’
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i got scared when that girl from ‘the killers’ came up in the dead weathers music video. thought she was mj.
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted July 17th, 2009 at 9:16 am
@unouomedude, thats alison mosshart from the kills not the killers, shes my alt sweet hart <3
goin to the dead weathers show tonite, might ‘cream my pants’ watching her
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Damn Vitalic used to be somewhat close to ‘real’ electro (not bloghaus) but clearly he’s been corrupted and has made some kind of hideous Crimewave rip-off to try and sell to the tweens… too bad…
B
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I burned my scalp
<D ice cream
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the MIA song is wack as fuck,
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needs more disco tits
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dont get the dead weather, but maybe they just suck.
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“this video aesthetic is trying to take us to some ‘brown part of the world’ where life is more simple.”
Wow, that’s the most racist thing I’ve ever read in a music blog. Congratulations on reaching a new low and loosing a reader.
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//////////Reply by Shaniqwa
//////////Posted July 18th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
@Steven M,
If you don’t get the joke and the bigger -post ironic- picture, then yeah, best move on to another blog, PC internets is so pre 2K
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The Sun Was ‘Relevant’ (And So Was I)
http://vimeo.com/5385161
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Vitalic: I think I don’t like this Crystal Castles Remix as much as the original.
Black People: I like the quiet, mild mannered kind. Feel like the ‘blipsters’ are just like the ‘gangstas’, but different clothes.
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//////////Reply by Alter-ego
//////////Posted July 19th, 2009 at 9:56 am
@monster, the hype-beast kind are the ones who are the same as gangstas. there the ones who listen to lil wane, k.west and other crap like that and then they lurk on blogs like hro hear a few names here and there and discover sutff like Crystal Castles,Mgmt, and so on when it’s like a hundred blog years old
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h8 julian c. douche bag 2dM
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