Song was about people not communicating with each other. The oxymoronic condition of the “sound of silence”....strong vocal. Black and white video effective for mood. Video images were “meh”....having a boat cross some type off stygian river to communicate with the other side didn’t hone in on the notion that the sound of silence is a permanent social feature for almost all cases. Offers of communication is sometimes met with withdrawal and hostility, usually disinterest.
Puncturing his chin with metal made him look like he was trying to be “relevant” to the then current viewers. Like sporting bell bottoms, paisley headband, long hair, and granny glasses in the 1960’s..
Verdict: B+ for song delivery, B for video quality, C for muddying up the message, C- for making lyrics more temporal rather than timeless.
P.S....missed the irony in the line about “people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made”...would certainly apply to today’s current obsession and slavish devotion to electronic images and the device designers and content producers. I mean waiting overnight in long lines
for the ability to buy the newest iPhone....really....
As always, IMHO..
flame on if necessary...
It also covers the plight of deaf people...if I may be too obvious. Sort of became a personal anthem for me when I woke to find the surgeons had to remove my larynx to get all the cancer.
Most of us never dwell on the good things we have and take for granted.
D for the background music.