Maybe I shouldn't be surprised...
Apr. 30th, 2003 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaEating tea this evening with Andy, we had assorted music TV channels on in the background (swapping channels when something unpleasant came on). This has reminded me that I must investigate Weezer some more, and one track made me wonder if the Dandy Warhols have a new album out - anyone know whence comes a Dandy Warhols track called something like "When we were friends"?
However, one thing really surprised me. The video for the Spice Girls' "Wannabe" came on, and, purely as an educational exercise, I thought I'd watch it. Despite having the song pumped into my offended ear drums far more often than I liked, I never saw the video.
And... it's awful. Yeah, I know, it was a pretty rubbish song in the first place. But I had expected the video to be... better than it is. Well produced at least, even though it was a debut. But it's amateurish in the extreme. It's badly directed, the lip synching is blatantly poor, the dance moves look like something put together by a bunch of eleven year olds. The simpering girlish enthusiasm was so false that it was almost painful to watch.
Yeuch. Fortunately, we found a channel playing the grainy black-and-white of "Monkey Gone to Heaven" and that cheered me up again.
However, one thing really surprised me. The video for the Spice Girls' "Wannabe" came on, and, purely as an educational exercise, I thought I'd watch it. Despite having the song pumped into my offended ear drums far more often than I liked, I never saw the video.
And... it's awful. Yeah, I know, it was a pretty rubbish song in the first place. But I had expected the video to be... better than it is. Well produced at least, even though it was a debut. But it's amateurish in the extreme. It's badly directed, the lip synching is blatantly poor, the dance moves look like something put together by a bunch of eleven year olds. The simpering girlish enthusiasm was so false that it was almost painful to watch.
Yeuch. Fortunately, we found a channel playing the grainy black-and-white of "Monkey Gone to Heaven" and that cheered me up again.
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Date: 2003-04-30 02:34 pm (UTC)I was watching some channel called "U"" on sky and came across a Kylie video.
"Oh dear" I thought, then... "hang on, it's quite good"
It turns out I was watching 'Confide in Me' from what many people consider to be the better, more creative non-pop part of her career.
So there you have it, sad bloke in the corner secretly likes Kylie (well, sort of)
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Date: 2003-04-30 09:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-05-25 01:24 pm (UTC)Albums out now. It's called "Welcome to the Monkey House". On first listen, it doesn't have the energy of the bouncy bits of, say, "13 Tales", but it's very well crafted indeed. Can't comment in much more detail until I've listened a few more times, but I think it's more than worth a tenner from Tesco with my shopping...
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Date: 2003-04-30 10:51 pm (UTC)And spice girls rule!! :)
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Date: 2003-05-01 04:15 am (UTC)But it's amateurish in the extreme.
Deliberate.
It's badly directed,
Not exactly deliberate, but I suspect that their goals don't match yours.
the lip synching is blatantly poor
OK, probably not deliberate. May not be the director's fault - look at the material he was working with.
the dance moves look like something put together by a bunch of eleven year olds
Deliberate. See also Steps.
The simpering girlish enthusiasm was so false that it was almost painful to watch.
Deliberate.
Not that I'm claiming that this music video is a towering achivement in the history of the genre, just that it set out to match the song in the sense of being crap but cheerful and colourful, and it succeeded.