pepokiss said:
I think STUCK IN A MOMENT's truck video is great...
The van version was pretty damn decent. The football version was just weird. I can't watch it. It's too damn stupid (but I may be biased because I loathe American football.)
The band seem to be relying too heavily on straightforward performance videos. Yeah, we get it, live is where they live, but it actually makes the music videos themselves boring (I'm looking at you, Vertigo video, all the nifty special effects in the world can't make you interesting.) I miss the days of cinematic music videos. Videos that tell stories. They seem to be becoming rarer and rarer these days as bands go for big eyecatchy gimmicks to garner attention from teenagers.
Though I should point out that two of the best cinematic music videos I've seen in the last few years are the video for
When You Were Young by The Killers, and especially the video for
The Ghost of You by My Chemical Romance. Say what you will about the band (I'm sure they have very few fans here
) but the video is quite awesome.
My big unattainable dream is to direct music videos, so this is a topic I could go on about for days. Often I'll listen to a song and completely imagine the video
I would make for it. I would suggest that U2 come to
me (haha) but honestly, I get very little inspiration from their songs. Maybe that's because U2 songs are too straightforward. Maybe it's because U2 videos never have anything to do with the song, I don't know.
The U2 songs that I've ever created videos for in my head are: Shadows and Tall Trees, Promenade, Exit, Zooropa, and If God Will Send His Angels (a
different one... which you can read about
here), Slow Dancing, and Walk to the Water. Five album tracks and two b-sides. Not a lot, considering that with most bands it's like almost every song. Maybe that's the problem, maybe music video directors can't get any inspiration out of U2 songs either
All that said, my favourite U2 videos in recent years have been Walk On (the regular version or "London version" as it's sometimes reffered to as, not the Brazil version), and Original of the Species. The former because I love the way people keep changing one to the other, to sort of show that people of all ages and races and walks of life go through the same shit, and hurt in the same ways, but can all 'walk on'. The latter because at least it's
interesting (scary roboheads and all), which was a first for the HTDAAB videos.
