This is actually one of several videos for Big Data’s Dangerous. Val shared two of them previously, here and here. However, the one above is my personal favorite because it features kitties!
This video was written and produced by Tom Borden and directed by Chris Ledoux.
And it features a lot of cats! Did I mention that?
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Happy Friday the 13th!
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Whenever I watch this video, I was tempted to compare it to The Belko Experiment but, actually, the video came out before the movie. So, perhaps The Belko Experiment should be compared to this.
Of course, the suggestion in this video is that the office riot is a scheduled daily event, one that — like The Purge — is designed to keep people in their place.
Big Data is probably best known for Dangerous. Personally, I think Big Data is responsible for some of the most important music of the decade. You’re free to agree or disagree as long as you understand that I’m right.
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Greetings from Mobile, Alabama!
So, originally, the plan was to share music videos about Alabama today and tomorrow but guess what? It turns out that there really aren’t that many good Alabama-centered music videos. There isn’t a music video for Sweet Home Alabama. All Summer Long is actually about Michigan. It is true that there’s a lot of country songs (and videos) about Alabama but picking one of them would mean sorting through a lot more country music than I’m really comfortable dealing with, especially when I’m just on a 2-day business trip.
(No offense meant, Alabama. You’re a lovely state.)
So, instead, today, I’m going to share this little gem from Elle King. I like the retro feel. It reminds me not so much of a James Bond film as much as one of the James Bond rip-offs that came out of Italy and Germany in the late 60s.
Enjoy!
I’m going to be in Alabama for the next three days so, naturally, I decided that today’s music video should be Sweet Home Alabama. Since the song was recorded before music videos were really a big thing, Lynard Skynard never did a video for their original recording. However, I was able to find a video for Keenan West’s soulful cover version.
Sweet Home Alabama was originally recorded in 1973, as a response to a song by Neil Yong that was called Southern Man. In that song, Neil Young looked down on the South from the safety of Canada and basically damned everything he saw. In response, Ronnie Van Zant wrote:
Well, I heard Mister Young sing about her
Well, I heard ol’ Neil put her down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don’t need him around anyhow
Not surprisingly, Sweet Home Alabama has been a popular but controversial song in the past. Over the years, several critics — mostly folks from up north who don’t really get nuance — have assumed that Sweet Home Alabama was meant to be some sort of right-wing political track. What they miss is that the song is openly critical of Alabama’s segregationist governor. (There’s a reason why there’s a chorus of “boo! boo! boo!” after the governor is mentioned.) Sweet Home Alabama was less about defending the South and more about calling out the self-righteousness of northern activists who attacked the South while either ignoring or rationalizing the racism in their own back yard.
(And if you want argue with me about that interpretation, I’m going to need you to first read Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas. Don’t come at me unless you’re willing to discuss what happened in the early 70s when Boston attempted to integrate its schools.)
Anyway, this is a good cover version and nicely heartfelt video.
Enjoy!
Some youtube commenters are already predicting that this will be the theme song of Trainspotting 3. Personally, I have my doubts as to whether there will ever be a Trainspotting 3 (if just because it took 20 years to get the 1st sequel and you have to wonder just how much long Sick Boy’s going to be able avoid either getting murdered or sent to prison) but still, I love this song and I love this video and therefore, it’s our music video of the day!
This is off the upcoming Teatime Dub Encounters.
Here are the credits for the video, as listed on YouTube:
Video by Simon Taylor (tomato)
Choreographer and Dancer: Carys Staton
Dancers Charley Logan & David Ledger
DOP Matt Broad
Post production by Jan Urbanowski
Men’s clothes by WorkNotWork
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This video always used to air in between episodes of Degrassi on TeenNick so, needless to say, it has a lot of nostalgia appeal to me.
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“(A) song I wrote in ten minutes almost as a challenge to myself. I thought, maybe I could write just a simple, almost formula song and make it mean something…”
That was how Elvis Costello described Everyday I Write The Book in an 1998 interview. The song went on to become one of Costello’s best-known compositions and the subsequent music video was a hit during the early days of MTV. Directed by Don Letts, the video features Elvis performing while Prince Charles haplessly attempts to woo Princess Diana (both of whom are played by celebrity lookalikes). Released just two years after their royal wedding and at a time when the story of Diana and Charles were still being held up as the ideal romantic fairy tale, this video proved to be prophetic in its portrayal of Charles and Diana’s marriage.
According to Costello, director Don Letts was solely responsible for the idea of using the royal lookalikes in the video. Letts is best known for his collaborations with The Clash. Not only did he direct several music videos for that group but he and Mick Jones later co-founded Big Audio Dynamite.
Yesterday, Elvis Costello announced that he would be cancelling the last six performances of his current tour because his battling what has been described as being “very aggressive cancer.” I know that I speak for a lot of music fans when I say that we’re all keeping Elvis in our thoughts and that we hope he makes a full recovery.
When this song came on my car radio last week, I immediately knew I had to do a “One Hit Wonders” post on it, so without any further ado, here’s Canadian New Wave pop rockers Men Without Hats doing their #3 smash dance hit “The Safety Dance”:
The band was led by singer/songwriter Ivan Doroschuck, who claimed he penned the bouncy tune in response to nightclubs banning pogo dancing, then a hot thing. At the time of recording the song and others for the album “Rhythm of Youth”, the group consisted of Ivan’s brothers Colin (guitars) and Stefan (bass), Allen McCarthy (keyboards/electronics), and Martin Cartier (percussion). The silly, Renaissance Fair-looking video got in heavy rotation on MTV (remember when they actually played music all day?), which aided it’s rise to the top of the pop charts.
Men Without Hats have gone through multiple personell changes over the years, with Ivan…
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I don’t have much to say about this video other than this is what a good time looks like.
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Through the Shattered Lens 