I just know that someone’s going to be like, “Actually, Lisa, this is song isn’t about vampires, it’s about someone sucking the happiness out of life.”
Listen, I don’t care. It’s October. It’s horrorthon. The lead singer of Concrete Blonde says that she was inspired to write the song by Interview with a Vampire, which is something that’s very obvious when you watch the video. And today would have been Anne Rice’s birthday. For our purposes, it’s a vampire song.
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Today, we have the video for Radiohead’s Burn the Witch. Through the use of stop motion animation, Burn the Witch tells a disturbing little story, one that deals with an inspector who comes to a seemingly idyllic English village and who eventually ends up getting trapped in a wicker man. If any of this sounds familiar, it’s probably because you’ve seen either the original Wicker Man or the remake starring Nicolas Cage. The video for Burn the Witch is actually a bit more positive than the film that inspired it. In the video, the inspector escapes at the end. Neither Edward Woodward nor Nic Cage were quite as lucky.
As for the song itself, it deals with the dangers of groupthink and blind obedience to authority. Since Radiohead’s music has always possessed a libertarian streak, that’s certainly not a shock. The video condemns not only those who would demand blind obedience but also on those who are foolish enough to give it. First released in 2016, this video easily predicted much of what would happen in 2020s, from the COVID hysteria on down.
Of course, with The Wicker Man theme, it’s also perfect for October!
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Shock, shock horror, horror, shock, shock horror
I’ve always liked this song and it feels like exactly the right choice for the first music video of our October horrorthon! The story behind this song is actually rather sweet. The lead singer of Space knew that his father didn’t care much for the music that he was producing so he wrote this song as a tribute to the type of music that his father did like. The end result was one of the band’s biggest hits.
The video has a certain James Bond feel to it. And by that, I mean this song would be great for one of the Sean Connery/Roger Moore films. Not the Daniel Craig films. The Daniel Craig movies suck. I’ll never get over what they did the world’s greatest secret agent.
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Start your day with a journey.
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Before there was Johnny Depp, there was Joe Le Taxi.
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Happy birthday, Sofia Coppola!
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.
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It’s always good fun until someone gets pushed down a flight of stairs.
That’s a lesson for us all.
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I love the look of this video. It’s all very vibrant and energetic, making it a great fit for the song being played.
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Happy May 4th!
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