Thanks, Berlin. Watched them both. Typically well made music videos. I’ve always thought of that art form as fine arts turned kinetic.
I was a physics/art history major but really got off on poetry, and that’s what I’m doing in my literary song videos. It’s taking the lyrics of a song and trying to force an interpretation in a specific context. I’ve had them written up in two chapters of books, and gave a talk on them at the MIT Media Lab.
My videos are about the TV shows first and the lyrics second. The music only forces an emotional context.
And those links were both to great songs.
I’ve actually spent the last 17 years supporting academic poetry researchers at Vassar and Auckland in NZ. I love retirement. Transcribed the bodies of work of Henry Livingston and Clement Moore into phonemes, which lets you analyze the movement of the tongue in the mouth when reciting poetry aloud. Purpose was to identify the actual author of Night Before Christmas by unconscious characteristics. Livingston won.