I don’t have much to say about this video so here’s some Until The Ribbon Breaks trivia! UTRB often writes their music in front of a projector. According to frontman Pete Lawrie-Winfield, “For me, it just allows my mind to wander further than the confines of where it normally would. Silent moving images of nature, space, a busy street, whatever it maybe, take on a new sense of gravitas when soundtracked and vice versa. The music is given meaning by the image.”
Enjoy!
Today’s music video of the day is the video for Jade Bird’s Lottery, which dropped just two days ago on the 18th.
It’s a lovely song with an appropriately straight-forward music video. It was directed by Kate Moross, whose first directorial credit (according to the imvdb) was for Alpines’s Ice and Arrows in 2011. Between that video and this one, Moross has directed videos for Jessie Ware, Arthur Beatrice, Disclosure, Wild Beasts, All We Are, and others.
Enjoy!
Today is Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday! If he were still alive today, he would be 209 years old. He would probably be the oldest man on the planet. Certainly, I think we would all be rather amazed at his vitality. Unfortunately, Poe is no longer with us. He was only forty years old when he died but his influence lives on.
You would think that there would be a hundred music videos based on the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Well, you would be wrong. While Poe’s work has inspired countless musicians (and there have been several songs based on his work), there aren’t many “official” music videos of those songs.
(There’s plenty of unofficial and amateur videos, of course. But, for music video of the day, I know that Val preferred to use only official videos and, while I’m filling in for her, I’m going to abide by her rules.)
However, there is a band that was not only influenced by Poe but which proudly displays that influence. Edgar Allan Poets is a Los Angeles band that lists its two greatest influences as being Poe and Hitchcock. Their music has a haunting, rather dream-like feel to it.
This video is for their song Old Black Clown.
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HollySiz is the stage name use by the French actress and singer, Cécile Cassel.
As for this video, it’s a journey through not only the history of dance but the history of film as well.
(On personal note, I currently have “better than yesterday” stuck in my head and I look forward to driving everyone crazy today by using that phrase every chance that I get.)
Enjoy!
Today’s music video of the day is this creepy, black-and-white video of Flint Eastwood’s Monster.
While watching this video, you’ll undoubtedly notice that it features a hairless cat. I love cats but I have to admit that hairless cats totally freak me out. I guess it’s because the sight of a hairless cat forces you to consider just how much of the inherent cuteness of cats has to do with their fur. Personally, I think that my cat Doc is the cutest cat ever but would I still feel the same way if he didn’t have all of that black fur? It’s a fair question.
Of course, what’s ironic is that cat’s don’t even care or notice what color their fur is. They’re color blind and, for the most part, they hate each other equally regardless of color or socio-economic background.
As long as I’m continuing to make everything about me, I should also point out that I have really bad eyesight and I think it might be getting worse! This video reminded me of how much I’m not looking forward to going to the optometrist next week.
Enjoy!
Filmed in Prague.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam.
When I saw The Commuter at the Alamo Drafthouse yesterday, this video was shown as a part of the pre-show. It’s actually taken from a 1974 ABC special, Ridin’ The Rails: The Great American Train Story. Apparently, the entire special was Johnny Cash riding trains across America, while singing some of his favorite train-related songs.
I imagine that it was ultimately meant to be something of a commercial for Amtrak, which was only 3 years old when Ridin’ The Rails aired. Myself, I’ve always found trains to be very romantic and one of my most beloved memories of Italy is riding the train into and from Venice. I’ve never been on Amtrak, though. I guess that’s because I’m a Southern girl and, down here, we love our cars too much to ever ride a train.
(I do remember, a few years back, watching a bunch of people from up North having a televised conniption over how little we care about Amtrak in the South. It struck me as being kinda weird and petty but anyway…)
Ridin’ The Rails was directed by Nicholas Webster. If that name sounds familiar, that might be because Webster also directed my favorite Christmas movie, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians!
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Since I shared the first video for Elle King’s Ex’s and Oh’s yesterday, I figured that I should probably share the second version today.
This is the official version and, while it’s nice to see men getting objectified for once, I have to admit that I still prefer the first version. That version, after all, had zombies.
Still, enjoy!
To a lot of people, this will always be known as the Lifetime song. That’s because Lifetime used to always play this song in their commercials and it always fit in perfectly with whatever melodramatic movie was being advertised. Like the best Lifetime films, Ex’s & Oh’s may sound dramatic but it’s actually very humorous and self-aware.
Just consider some of my favorite lyrics:
Well, I had me a boy, turned him into a man
I showed him all the things that he didn’t understand
Whoa, and then I let him go
Now, there’s one in California who’s been cursing my name
‘Cause I found me a better lover in the UK
Hey, hey, until I made my getaway
One, two, three, they gonna run back to me
‘Cause I’m the best baby that they never gotta keep
One, two, three, they gonna run back to me
They always wanna come, but they never wanna leave
Myself, I loved this song even before it became a Lifetime anthem. This is one of those songs that it’s fun to sing off-key to while you’re stuck on Central Expressway.
There’s actually two videos for this song. The video that I shared today is the first version and I like it the best because there’s zombie at the end!
Enjoy!
Since today is Mel C’s birthday, I decided to go with a Spice Girls video for the video of the day.
Wannabe was the Spice Girls’s first video and, when it was released, it took only two hours for it to become the number one selected video on The Box, a British cable network. It stayed at number one for 13 weeks and it only fell from that spot because the Spice Girls released another video.
This video was directed by commercial director Jhoan Camitz. According to Wikipedia, this was his first music video. According to the imvdb, it was his third. Reportedly, he originally wanted to film the video at a hotel in Barcelona but, when he was denied permission, he instead filmed at the Midland Grand Hotel in St. Pancras, London.
The video was banned in some parts of Asia, because it was considered to be too provocative.
I’ve taking turns trying to convince nearly everyone here at the Shattered Lens to, at some point in the future, review Spice World. So far, everyone’s refused so I may to do it someday myself.
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