some music videos
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rushthatspeaksIt's been a couple of years since I did a post about music videos I like. Here is one.
Cake Like are my favorite riot-grrl-type band that doesn't get talked about. They did a kind of free-association sound-poetry, which is a lot more melodic than that sort of thing traditionally turns out, and somehow were considered commercial enough that they got two videos back in the nineties. Of those, Suck is the masterpiece, a witty and adorable and excruciatingly painful look at sexual violence, with an entirely female gaze. I mentally classify it with Hole's video 'Violet', although that one's more about violence and the male gaze in general and 'Suck' is more about incest and hiding abuse. It is also an extremely catchy song. Note: while it's never actually NSFW, there are a couple of points of the video I have great difficulty looking at, so, something of a content warning.
My favorite vampire movie, period, end of sentence: Mylène Farmer's Je Te Rends Ton Amour, featuring blindness which is not cured by vampirism, Farmer being naked enough to be banned from French television, and blood in extraordinary quantities. A heartwarming little tale about taking control of your own life via Satanism, hypnotism, and general eroticism. This video goes on and off Youtube for copyright and content reasons, so the link is to Vimeo, where someone has posted a high-enough quality version that we can see the knitted stitches of the garment in the bit where Farmer is theoretically dressed only in blood. In case it wasn't obvious, NSFW.
Susanne Sundfør, White Foxes. Thoughts on the line between inside and outside one's head, the line between human and animal, between indoors and outdoors, and not as pretentious as I'm making it sound. Foxes. Snow. Warning for gore in a medical context, although possibly not NSFW depending on your standards. I also admire her 'The Silicone Veil', but I'm not linking it because that one is really disturbing.
By way of a performance on film rather than a video as such, here's Ed Sheeran covering Nina Simone's Be My Husband, without changing the pronouns.
And here's one of my major candidates for my own favorite music video of all time, and certainly the one which fits the tone and meanings of its song best: Talking Heads' Sax and Violins. Calm is not the right word, and neither is melancholy, but they come as close as as I can manage at the moment.
Cake Like are my favorite riot-grrl-type band that doesn't get talked about. They did a kind of free-association sound-poetry, which is a lot more melodic than that sort of thing traditionally turns out, and somehow were considered commercial enough that they got two videos back in the nineties. Of those, Suck is the masterpiece, a witty and adorable and excruciatingly painful look at sexual violence, with an entirely female gaze. I mentally classify it with Hole's video 'Violet', although that one's more about violence and the male gaze in general and 'Suck' is more about incest and hiding abuse. It is also an extremely catchy song. Note: while it's never actually NSFW, there are a couple of points of the video I have great difficulty looking at, so, something of a content warning.
My favorite vampire movie, period, end of sentence: Mylène Farmer's Je Te Rends Ton Amour, featuring blindness which is not cured by vampirism, Farmer being naked enough to be banned from French television, and blood in extraordinary quantities. A heartwarming little tale about taking control of your own life via Satanism, hypnotism, and general eroticism. This video goes on and off Youtube for copyright and content reasons, so the link is to Vimeo, where someone has posted a high-enough quality version that we can see the knitted stitches of the garment in the bit where Farmer is theoretically dressed only in blood. In case it wasn't obvious, NSFW.
Susanne Sundfør, White Foxes. Thoughts on the line between inside and outside one's head, the line between human and animal, between indoors and outdoors, and not as pretentious as I'm making it sound. Foxes. Snow. Warning for gore in a medical context, although possibly not NSFW depending on your standards. I also admire her 'The Silicone Veil', but I'm not linking it because that one is really disturbing.
By way of a performance on film rather than a video as such, here's Ed Sheeran covering Nina Simone's Be My Husband, without changing the pronouns.
And here's one of my major candidates for my own favorite music video of all time, and certainly the one which fits the tone and meanings of its song best: Talking Heads' Sax and Violins. Calm is not the right word, and neither is melancholy, but they come as close as as I can manage at the moment.
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Date: 2014-05-12 11:38 pm (UTC)If you ever write about them at length, I would enjoy that very much. And I think it would be valuable.
A heartwarming little tale about taking control of your own life via Satanism, hypnotism, and general eroticism.
I love that video so much. Also I associate it with you in ways that are not safe for work either.
I also admire her 'The Silicone Veil', but I'm not linking it because that one is really disturbing.
I can't remember if I found that one through
Talking Heads' Sax and Violins.
I have been listening to that song for three full days now!
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Date: 2014-05-13 02:19 am (UTC)'Sax and Violins' is one of the few songs where I probably could just put it on repeat forever and be totally entertained. I have also had it on for days at a time on occasion. Glad of the coincidence of the timing.
I associate the vampire one with you, too. Love.
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Date: 2014-05-12 11:39 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2014-05-13 12:48 am (UTC)Oh, I did enjoy that; thank you so much. (Also I came out of it with this notion of pure contrast, where I want to hear Tom Waits sing of leaving his wedding-ring on a Braille bible...)
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Date: 2014-05-13 02:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-13 02:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-13 03:41 am (UTC)+1.
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Date: 2014-05-13 03:41 am (UTC). . . If you can't get Tom Waits to write that, will you?