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4 comments:
This Andy Kim video is brilliant -- entirely contrived but in a completely un-self-concious way.
(Am I the only one that thought this was a Neil Diamond song?)
Anyway, I love the earnest lip-sync and the way the camera pulls away and we see the artifice of it all: Andy Kim, somewhere in the Hollywood Hills apparently, rockin' it, but gently.
From the archives of music videos that do more harm than good, I'm also reminded of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR0j7sModCI
The Billy Squier video is hilarious, but there's a difference: (a) the song sucks and (b) Bob Welch and Andy Kim can look themselves in the mirror after making their videos, whereas I seriously doubt Billy Squier can.
I, too, was struck by the long shot at end of the Andy Kim video. In a way, Kim's video reminds me of the cinematography of 70s American films; Welch's video of pretentious European films of that era.
Not only do I believe Billy Squire could look himself in the mirror afterward, I think he would try to make love to the image he found there.
The Bob Welch video looks like it could be a fantasy sequence left out of Napoleon Dynamite. (And why is he holding a mic through most of it?)
Andy Kim's video looks like a spoof, starring Kal Penn, of a segment on a Seventies variety show - The Hudson Brothers, maybe?
Is that Valerie Bertinelli in the Bob Welch video?
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