Today’s music video of the day is the video for Son Lux’s Slowly, which was released yesterday.
Your guess about what’s going on in this moody, black-and-white video is probably as good as mine. Myself, I like the atmosphere and the feeling of death creeping around every corner. At the very least, that’s what I see. Others will undoubtedly disagree.
This video was directed by Alex Cook, who also directed the video of Son Lux’s Dangerous.
Enjoy!
A city in the desert is under attack! Can it be saved?
Watch the video to find out!
I like this video. It’s fun. I’m not going to overanalyze it because, quite frankly, sometimes simply being fun is underrated.
Here’s the full credits as listed on promonews. Double Ninja and Thomas Vernay are one in the same.
Enjoy!
AGCK!
This video is super creepy.
I’m not even going to attempt to explain it, I’m just going to suggest that everyone watch.
Enjoy!
According to this super helpful site that I found, today is National I’m Not Going To Take It Day.
The site suggests that the best way to celebrate I’m Not Going To Take It Day is to go to the mall and buy yourself an expensive gift. Well, I’m all about that! Another suggested way to celebrate the day is to book yourself a vacation to some place warm. I already live some place warm so I think I’ll book a vacation in Minnesota for September…
ANYWAY, in honor of this holiday, today’s music video of the day is the German band, Donots, performing their version of Twisted Sister’s We’re Not Going To Take It. The video is basically them performing the song, mixed in with footage of people refusing to take it.
Burn, baby, burn! as my old Colorado dance teacher used to put it…
Enjoy!
Life is beautiful, y’all.
I don’t have much to say about this video. I just like the song and the imagery. Sometimes, this video inspires me to go outside and look up at the clouds and appreciate the beauty all around me. Other times, I watch this video and I ask myself if maybe it’s actually about the end of the world. To a certain extent, some of the imagery in the final half of the video reminds me of the 1998 Canadian apocalypse film, Last Night. The clouds may look beautiful but from the way the video abruptly ends, you do have to wonder if maybe all that beauty was a prelude to everything simply ceasing to exist.
Well, no matter! I like the song. I like the video. In the end, that’s what really matters.
Enjoy!
The next time some music snob tries to complain that dance music doesn’t have anything to contribute, show them this video.
Dancing saves lives.
Enjoy!
Scottish singer/songwriter Gerry Rafferty passed away seven years ago on this date. With that in mind, it seems only right that today’s music video of the day is the video for his 1978 song, Baker Street.
Baker Street, of course, is widely known as “the song with the sax solo.” That’s actually what I always used to call it until I learned the name a few years ago. Playing that saxophone was a session musician named Raphael Ravenscroft. There’s an urban legend, which I’ve seen stated as fact on several web sites, that Ravenscroft was either never paid for his work or the check he received from Rafferty bounced. However, Ravenscroft himself stated several times that this was not the case and he was paid for his work. Ravenscroft also once said that he found it difficult to listen to sax solo because the saxophone was out of tune.
As for Baker Street itself, it was reportedly written at a time that Rafferty was involved in a lawsuit involving his former band, Stealers Wheel. (Stealers Wheel performed Stuck In The Middle With You, a song that will be forever associated with lost ears.) Apparently, whenever Rafferty had to go to London to meet with his lawyers, he would stay with a friend who lived on Baker Street.
Enjoy!
Today is the 43rd birthday of Thomas Bangalter, who is rumored to be one of the robots better known as Daft Punk. For that reason, I selected Daft Punk’s Lose Yourself To Dance as today’s music video of the day!
One of my fondest memories of 2014 was watching the Grammy Awards that year. The only reason that I watched was so I could see Daft Punk win every award they were nominated for. Every time they were mentioned, the camers would cut to the robots sitting in the audience. Every time they won, Pharrell Williams would end up on stage, saying, “The Robots would like to thank…”
I hope you enjoy this video as much as I enjoyed that awards ceremony!
It’s a day in the life of DJ Darren … no, wait, make that Dillon … Francis!
Now, the music doesn’t really start until about 2 minutes and 30 seconds into this video. Before that, we get some mockumentary footage of DJ Dillon in the suburbs, trying to get a cigarette from a 17 year-old and explaining how he brings life to everything from “”birthdays, weddings, Quinceaneras, corporate event, block parties, and youth retreats” to apparently a suburban barbecue.
You may be tempted to mock DJ Dillon. He definitely gives off a Brett Ratner vibe, which is never really a good thing. (At this point, it’s always necessary to make sure that it’s understood I’m referring to the character that Dillon Francis is playing in this video and not necessarily Dillon Francis himself.) But once he gets set up and start playing, Dillon transforms that suburban backyard into a bacchanal. That’s the power of DJ Dillon. Of course, the revelry soon turns into a drunken brawl and it appears that Dillon is responsible for destroying one person’s life but that’s life.
The video was directed by the meme lord himself, Jack Wagner.
Enjoy!
I was going to start this post by saying that my resolution for 2018 was to start every day by saying, “Work, bitch,” as I continued to make my dreams a reality.
Every day, when I looked in the mirror, I would say, “Work, bitch.”
Every day, when it was time to find a new adventure, I would say, “Work, bitch.”
Every day, when it was time to sit down and write, I would say, “Work, bitch.”
Every day, when I thought about how to make this site even better than it already is, I would say, “Work, bitch.”
No complacency for me! No surrender! No taking anything for granted!
Instead, every day, “Work, bitch.”
That really was going to be my resolution but then I realized that I already do that every day. I’ve been saying, “Work, bitch,” every since this song first came out. I don’t need a resolution to make myself work. I already do that.
So, I guess my new resolution is to look in the mirror and say, “Relax, bitch.”
(For the record, bitch is a term of endearment and empowerment when I use it.)
Anyway, I like this video. Britney whips her dancers into shape. I may do the same thing with some of the people I work with this year. Maybe that’s my 2018 resolution…
Enjoy!
(And Free Britney!)
Through the Shattered Lens 