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#143 [#102]

Name: Wavetapper
Origin: Frums
Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lRPEny5jug" data-time="

Nominator: DireKrow (5/15)

(7, 7, 6.7)

[BEEP BEEP]

Fantastic concept, bonus point for using a dialing phone & busy sound as part of the music (I like non-instruments being used for music), and I'm intrigued by the hidden message flashing in the corner. The translated version someone posted kinda reminds me of the quasi-philosophical nature of some of the tracks from "Be" (Pain of Salvation's album I learned about last topic and loved).

I'm just not a fan of the song before the phone comes in (not usually into vocalizations, sorry) and--like I've said a thousand times already--it never goes far enough on the chaos. It's closer, but still not there yet.

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#142 [#170]:

Name: Barefoot In The Park
Origin: James Blake (feat. Rosalia)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnvobi3ctsE" data-time="

Nominator: mcflubbin (5/10)

(5, 6, 6.7)

[I like the parts with Rosalia singing by herself, not as into James himself or the duet.]

So many things to unpack here...

First, this video somehow manages to be both more unsettling and less appropriate for the associated song than the Slasher Vid. So...that's something. It convinced me the song was far darker than it was, and I spent a fair amount of time thinking about it, until I found out James Blake uploaded a video explaining the song so I wouldn't have to waste time thinking.

Second, he did apologize for explaining the song and acknowledged that it would ruin it for some people, so that was kinda nice?

Third, I hated his explanations. The song is about a movie he never saw, one line is repeatedd at the end because he needed a line and couldn't think of anything else--even if true, never admit something like that. Once you tell the audience that there is no meaning to your words beyond filling space, they won't waste their time caring what you say ever again; at least, I won't)--and he kinda ruined the best part of the song:

"Saturn starts turning off each ring
Sky's locking up I think"

Now those are some great images! How does he describe those in his own words?

Youre spending a day with this person who youre discovering more about, you know, over the course of the day and starting to feel a lot for them and then the idea of the day ending is almost, you know, you want it to not be over, basically and the image of Saturn turning off its rings really came from the idea of a bar closing up so the bartender sort of putting all the chairs upside down, taking the, finally closing the door, locking it. Its the idea of something coming to an end, really, and that the kind of figurative bar tendering space going around turning the lights off and thats kind of what that means.

...Figurative space bartender? And none of that has anything to do with the video. Not that music videos usually relate to the songs, I suppose, but it's all very....bleggh.

Song makes it this far because I do still like Rosalia's portions, it's kinda fun to laugh at Blake's explanations, and because I want to avoid repeating last year's mistake of undervaluing a song just because the artist explained the lyrics.

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