This song and video are so optimistic that they almost feel like they should be played at a Marianne Williamson campaign rally.
Listen, we’ve all got a difficult week ahead of us and Monday is always the worst day. So, my hope is that this music video and this song will help you get off to a good start!
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Since it’s the 50th anniversary of Woodstock right now, it seems appropriate to share this music video.
This is a cover of a song that Joni Mitchell wrote about the festival. It’s a song that’s been covered by many different groups and, as is typical of the boomer folk music of the late 60s and early 70s, it’s a bit too self-serious for my taste. That said, it’s definitely better than that Big Yellow Taxi song and Miya Folick brings a dream-like edge to her version of the song. When you hear Folick’s version, it sounds like it’s possible that she’s being sarcastic when she sings about meeting a “child of God,” and that alone makes it better than most other versions of this song.
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“Lot of freaks!”
Today is the 50th anniversary of the first day of the famous (or infamous, depending on how you feel about hippies, nudity, mud, and Crosby Stills Nash) 1969 musical festival, Woodstock. Today’s music video of the day is taken from Michael Wadleigh’s 1970 documentary about that event.
Arlo Guthrie was the son of folk singer, Woody Guthrie. He’s best known for the Thanksgiving anthem, Alice’s Restaurant. I enjoy his performance here because Arlo is both playing up to the crowd while, at the same time, remaining rather detached from them as well. He understands the audience and allows them to think that he’s one of them while remaining a bit above it all. (And if you have any doubt, just look at him flying over Woodstock in a helicopter.) It’s the same feeling that one gets from watching Arlo in the film version of Alice’s Restaurant and it makes him a more intriguing figure than the artists who unambiguously embraced the counter culture.
Wadleigh, of course, uses Guthrie’s song as a way to acknowledge that, believe it or not, a lot of weed was smoked at Woodstock.
Finally, it’s a pretty good song. Rhyming “Los Angeles” with “a couple of keys” guarantees that.
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It’s Amy!
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So, is this video a celebration of hanging out with friends or is it the final vision of a dying person whose life is flashing before their eyes. I tend to assume it’s the latter but then again, you know that I always tend to lean towards the morbid when it comes to interpreting things.
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If you’ve seen previous Lara Snow videos like I Like Snow and Sometimes It’s Enough, than you might be surprised by the video for Swim Far. On the basis of those previous videos, it was easy to think of Lara Snow as being an artist with a rather cold, almost vampiric aesthetic. However, Swim Far presents us with a much more emotionally colorful and vibrant Lara Snow, one who is surrounded by flowers. That said, the shadows and the surreal imagery are still there and we’re all the better for it.
According to an interview that Snow gave to When The Horn Blows, this video was shot in Tel Aviv and Geneva.
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A trippy music video is always a good way to start the day, isn’t it?
It’s always tempting to read too much into a video like this. I just like the combination of impending doom and smiley faces. I mean, who wouldn’t?
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Feeling paranoid, yet?
Love you, Big Data!
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This is a nicely atmospheric video. A woman discovers that her man is cheating and, when he returns home from a tryst, he finds a message waiting for him. The whole video covers an entire range of emotion, from the pain of betrayal to the empowerment that comes from refusing to just accept it.
“I am enough”
Hell yeah, Girl!
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Unless, of course, you’ve been bad, in which case you should probably fear for your life.
This is a nicely evocative video, I think. Las Vegas is the quintessential American city, a celebration of commerce and hospitality that happens to be sitting out in the middle of an inhospitable desert. Vegas could only have been founded in America and it’s only in America that it could have thrived to become the iconic city that it is today.
Of course, I should also mention that, whenever I see any clips of the Las Vegas strip, I automatically think about the movie Casino and the Ace Rothstein Dancers. If I ever go to Vegas, I’m going to let Commissioner Pat Webb know that Sam “Ace” Rothstein has nothing to hide.
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Through the Shattered Lens 