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To: mairdie

The music seems pretty misplaced with that scenery. Way back when- it was travelling music for a young road bum that hadn’t got stuck out there yet and still had options.


10 posted on 10/12/2017 1:11:32 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: arthurus

>>The music seems pretty misplaced with that scenery

The goal with these music videos is the unexpected. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t. But you want to take words that people expect to be interpreted one way and turn it on its tail until it feels like the song was meant for that new context. Using Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer as a Scotty drinking song, for example. I can never hear that song now without seeing Scotty. Long ago and far away, people used to write me about the songs. One recurring theme was that they would be standing in a grocery store, music would start and they’d break out laughing because no one else could see Kirk and Spock but them.

The goal is literary. The music adds power, but the goal is always literary. And will sometimes fall flat on its nose. No problem. You just rub your nose and try the next one.


15 posted on 10/12/2017 1:29:56 PM PDT by mairdie
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