This post is a ‘recap’ of some of the most bloggable music videos of the past several blog months.
Video: Grizzly Bear – While You Wait for the Others
Analysis: I really feel like Grizzly Bear ‘dropped the ball’ on this video. I didn’t really watch it, even though it might be ‘good.’ Since Grizzly Bear ‘charted’ at #6, I feel like they need to do more gimmicks that will help them ‘crossover’ even more. I believe that the best strategy with this song, would have been to do a ‘very generic’ video where they look like a ‘band who is trying to look kewl’, sort of like what the Kings of Leon did to ‘make the jump.’ Feel like they should try to brand themselves as a ‘kewl looking buzz band’ to more mainstream audiences by having a lame video where they are on some rooftop at night being filmed from a helichopper. There could also be some sort of ‘keut girl’ in their video, sort of like some1 like ‘Jessica Alba/Courtney Cox b4 she got famous.’ Conceptual videos that represents ur song are ‘kewl’ if ur a buzzband doing ur first debut on pitchfork.tv, but if u wanna ‘win a VMA’, ur gonna have to do something a lot gheyer/more honky for mainstream fans.
Video: Fever Ray – Seven
Analysis: I was informed by an industry insider that this is a ’sideproject by the broad from THE KNIFE.’ You might remember the Knife from the pre-bloghouse indielectronic-ish movement. This means that Fever Ray has a bunch of electronic xylophone sounds in her music. It is apparently supposed to be a ‘goth project.’ I hope that she ends up on the Twilight soundtrack to reach ‘consumer goths’, sometimes known as ‘vampires.’ Not sure if I am supposed to ‘fear death’ in this video, or ‘get turned on by cougar milf porn.’
Video: The Phenomenal Handclap Band – 15 to 20
Analysis: I mainly wanted to blog about this song. It sort of reminds me of the bloghouse era. Like a song that is ‘upbeat’ and would have received a ton of attention based on catchiness/chorus structure/girl singing with attitude. Whatever happened to ‘the Go! Team’? Remember they had that one catchy song? Wonder if this song would be ‘bigger’ if they sold it to CSS. Sad that there are less accepting ears for songs like this. Miss u 2k5-2k7.
Video: Acid Girls – The Numbers Song
Analysis: This video is a ‘period piece’ about doing ‘a shit load of blow’ during the BlogHouse Era.
Video: Tokio Hotel – Automatic
Analysis: A kewl video by the bad ass German tween crossover hit band Tokio Hotel. Seems like they are really ‘growing into’ more than just a foreign teen sensation, like they have finally started to learn ‘the English Language’ and are trying to explain emotions that all humans can relate to. There are some weird shots in this video of robots ‘eyeball fucking’ one another. The lead singer still seems like an anime bro. Might build a time machine and move to Germany and try to get into this band.
Video: Health – Die Slow
Analysis: Health is indie’s only ‘hardXcore’ band with ‘credibility/coverability.’ I remember when I was a bloghouse blog, searching for remixes to post every day, Health was sort of like something to blog about to ‘make ur blog seem different, like u appreciated all music.’ It seems like one day I might go to a Health concert. From what I can tell, they seem ’serious’ about music, like they know what they are doing. I think that this video is about killing women. This video seems artsy. I want to meet some1 who says ‘Health is my favourite band’, because then I feel like I would better understand Health. I think this video is about date rape/murder since all of the women end up getting ‘chopped the fuck up.’
Video: Dan Deacon – Paddling Ghost
Analysis: Dan Deacon has a zany lil brand, which is why he turned to the ‘puppet aesthetic.’ Basically, most of Dan Deacons fans ‘live in a fucking dream world’ and would actually enjoy this ‘puppet bullshit.’ It seems like you really have to identify with a brand in order to accept the puppetification of a band, otherwise it just seems to bring out an intensified version of your feelings for the band. Wonder if Dan Deacon dolls would ’sell well’ or if buildabear would be a more chill place to buy a gift for a kid.
Have u seen any kewl music videos lately?
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26 Comments
there’s a pretty sweet video out there of some domino’s employees farting on pizza
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PkgOqVdpkU
most relevant vid from 2k9
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fuck dan deacon rules so hard i cant even take it (actually)
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want 2 live in that apt yall. i think?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va1Y6uAgNJY
pretty stoked on this dirty projjies vid…
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//////////Reply by mr. jeffers
//////////Posted September 14th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
@dude, fetal alcohol syndrome.. she looks like an alien
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i herd this gurl taylor swift, had a perty kewl vid which evn won an award. it was apparently follwed by a gurl named beyonce perty close.
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god fever ray is annoying
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want to see someone who calls HEALTH their favorite band. Check out my bro Paco, http://www.myspace.com/pacotrash..
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HEALTH is by far my favorite band right now. It kind of sucks though because you can really only listen to them by yourself (via mnstrm friends who would hear them and be all like ‘WTF IS THIS SHIT!?!?! PUT ON SOME DRAKE!!!!!1!one”
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//////////Reply by JJ
//////////Posted September 14th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
@the lab,
Oh how I feel your pain. HEALTH is just so inaccessible to most. :( I do have one bro who likes them. I hold on to him tightly.
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//////////Reply by uh
//////////Posted September 15th, 2009 at 2:05 am
@the lab, In March, took my two best friends to a HEALTH and Wavves show (I EVEN PAID FOR THEIR TICKETS)… by the end they looked like they looked like some damn prunes shriveled up, mouths agape, eyeballs protruding.
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vimeo douchebags
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvbfxlIxuug
i think this vid kickz ballz
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dope videos here: msm.spex.de
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tokio hotel for the win. this is a stupid video but god damn do i love them.
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//////////Reply by yah
//////////Posted September 14th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
their videos suck but they ARE AMAZZIZIZING live
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//////////Reply by lolll
//////////Posted September 14th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
@yah, I actually saw them live, it was soso, as was being surrounded by sweaty 12 year old girls.
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//////////Reply by dude
//////////Posted September 14th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
@lolll, i dunno the sweaty 12 yr olds part sounds kinda cool [via perving out petey townsend style]…
going outside right now to chief then coming back 2 watch these vids lol
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//////////Reply by Polli
//////////Posted September 16th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
@b4hc,
Damn I just did that too, was it some dank?
The ACID GIRLS VIDEO SUCKED, and I was even high when I saw it.
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//////////Reply by b4hc
//////////Posted September 16th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
@Polli, ohio dirt weed represent… never made it back 2 the computer after lol
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//////////Reply by b4hc
//////////Posted September 16th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
@b4hc, damn i just watched it………………………………………………..
you should change your stylesheet to allow tabbed browsing no matter how pretty big obscured ariel looks.
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hehe
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really sad that i picked up the ‘other’ HEALTH at my local record store. it was mainstream like whoa. has anyone had this experience? sad.
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dude! feels like grizzly bear dropped something when they made that video, just doesn’t seem chill at all. feel let down that we didn’t get to see that bro’s face, at least we got to see some keut broad (via via acid girls)
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here is my friend paco, http://www.myspace.com/pacotrash, his favorite band is HEALTH. So much so he made me buy the album on vinyl when he was out to visit from France, i have no regrets.. HEALTH is rad..
Thought you’d like to see an online fan of HEALTH
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Just jerked “it” to Acid Girls.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbB0QrBIs9k&feature=fvst
authentic as fuck
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//////////Reply by cute
//////////Posted September 15th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
n/t???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFn26ntmSsg
much more auth.
but i enjoyed learning about dc talk. thanks!
i suppose some kind of link to tao or zach or carles or any collective of people would be fine as well. we’re all on a first name basis by now, right? ’sweet jesus christ mother mary and the holy ghost’ i thought ‘this sucks’. “i should ’stfu’ “
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acid gurls r hawt
password is car lace
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All I want in a music vid is skank-hot bitches.
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i feel like the phenomenal hand clapping band is the most bloggable negro band of 2k9.
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wasn’t that 15- 20 song in the movie party monster?
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dreamcatcher girl is in that HEALTH music video
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