I find it very upsetting when a music video attempts to utilise one of the sluts of the music video concept world (in this case the rebellion of youth vs. The establishment/preps /the education system/ parents) and, despite years of precedent, fails miserably. When your record company is saying that you “redefine the pool party” in your video description, I anticipate seeing more than one person in the pool. The lone underwear-clad girl’s splash, slo-mo’d to hell like it was some great gesture of revolution, was nothing more than a small, disappointing orgasm, occurring far too early in the video to actually mean anything, with no attempt to compensate for or better it in the parts that follow. Why, if the rest of the fans were going crazy, were they so neatly confined to the opposite side of the pool, metres away from their rock-god liberators? Are Trivium fans allergic to chlorine?
Speaking of totally hardcore liberation through music, here are some examples of rebellious youth vs. The establishment binary-type videos (defined by contrasting depictions of each party), organised into vague categories. For health and safety reasons the entirety of this list should not be watched in one sitting.
School is like Stalin’s Russia but worse
"Another Brick in the Wall" - Pink Floyd (I feel kind of bad putting this here considering the calibre of the rest of the stuff on this list)
Hot, ostracised girls await knights in shining ROKK
"Hard Rock Hallelujah" - Lordi
Fuck you preps, I’m crashing your party
"Tainted Love" - Marilyn Manson
No-one gets it, you know?
"Jesus of Suburbia" - Green Day
"All the Things She Said" - TaTu
Stupid conformist bitch, stay away from my man!
"Misery Business" - Paramore"Girlfriend" - Avril Lavigne
HAHAHAHA, maybe they were worried that the simultaneous splashing might have put out the...fire...lol. The crowd should have at least all jumped in at the end...oh well. Anyway, I was really tickled by the "Stupid conformist bitch..." title, especially because it contains one of my favorite bands, Paramore (and might I add, the first vid I saw from Paramore that hooked me ever since). Nice wit. On another note, thanks for your supportive comment on my blog.
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