Today’s music video is the video for AIR’s Playground Love.
This song was recorded as a part of AIR’s score for Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides. The video, which is largely made up of footage from the film, along with singing wad of chewing gum, is credited as having been directed by both Sofia and Roman Coppola.
(While not as well-known as his sister, Roman Coppola is a frequent collaborator with Wes Anderson and he also directed an excellent film called CQ.)
Today’s music video of the day is the first music video to have been directed by Sofia Coppola. In fact, this may be her first directorial credit. While the song itself is a bit generic, the video is pure Sofia Coppola. Watching it, it’s hard not to see the same vision that, a few years later, would give us The Virgin Suicides, Somewhere, and The Bling Ring. This video was filmed at the Coppola vineyard in Rutherford, California.
Interesting to note that the film’s editor was Spike Jonze, who would later marry Coppola in 1999 (they would get divorced in 2003) and who is thought to have been the inspiration for Giovanni Ribisi’s character in Lost In Translation.
Sorry, everyone. I’m pretty ill right now so, instead of going into a lot of detail, I’m just going to share this video of Saint Motel’s My Type and hope that you enjoy!
Fireworks seem like a good way to welcome in the month of May.
This video was filmed, over the course of two nights, near the Sepulveda Dam in Los Angeles and apparently, all of the explosions and the fireworks convinced local residents that they were under terrorist attack. Lead singer Chris Cornell was in rehab at the time of the shooting and commuted directly from the facility to the set and then back again.
Hi, everyone! Welcome to the merry old month of May!
So, today is May Day, which is apparently some sort of communist new year. (Actually, technically, the holiday is International Workers Day or something like that but May Day sounds prettier and little bit less grimy.) Anyway, with that in mind, it only seems appropriate (to me, at least) that today’s music video of the day should be about wanting money.
This song was originally recorded by Barrett Strong in 1959 and subsequently become heavily identified with the Beatles. There have been quite a few covers over the year but my favorite version is by The Flying Lizards, largely because this version achieves a perfect balance between sincerity and satire.
This video was recorded for a show called TopPop, which was apparently some sort of Danish music show. I have to admit that I have a weakness for bands that were willing to be openly eccentric. That’s something that the world is missing today. Everyone’s so tediously earnest.
I don’t have much to say about this video. That’s actually one of the reasons why I picked it. My allergies and my asthma are teaming up to try to take me out before April ends so I figured this would be a good day to pick a video that can pretty much speak for itself.
I’ve liked this song ever since I first watched Boogie Nights. Apparently, in 2006, it was voted the “greatest guilty pleasure” of all time by the British music magazine, Q. I just find all the random shouts of “I’m taking a dive” to be fascinating.
A video featuring a human-sized toy bear beating up a hunter?
The question isn’t why wouldn’t I share this video. The question is why haven’t I shared this video yet?
The song, of course, is a look at human behavior through the eyes of an animal. Bjork had the following to say about the idea behind the video:
“Human Behaviour is an animal’s point of view on humans. And the animals are definitely supposed to win in the end. So why, one might ask, is the conquering bear presented as a man-made toy? I don’t know. I guess I just didn’t think it would be fair to force an animal to act in a video. I mean, that would be an extension of what I’m against.”
This was the first video on which Michel Gondry and Bjork collaborated. (Gondry, of course, would later direct Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.) Gondry had the following to say about the video:
“When we did our first video, for “Human Behaviour”, I was thinking: “Great, we’re going to Iceland and we’re going to shoot a lot of great landscape.” And she [Björk] said no – she had a similar idea as my friend Etienne in Oui Oui, she wanted to use animals to reflect human nature. And it was great, because as soon as she started to throw some ideas, they started to bounce in my mind and imagination and I immediately came back with other ideas, and we did a video that was very collaborative. “
So, there you have it. The animals always win in the end.
Through the Shattered Lens 