• OK Go- "Obession" Music Video
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If clickbait starts meaning that I'm highly entertained by both a catchy song and visually pleasing music video (both with high production value.) then I would be beyond fuckin' okay with that. Really though I can get the "getting bored cause they do the same thing over and over again" angle. but clickbait? C'mon that's gotta be bait.
[QUOTE=Rusty100;52918465]nobody is upset, nor am i saying it should be 'more like other' music videos, i just don't think it's even remotely interesting. there are plenty of different types of music videos, and I think this type is conceptually dull and pandering for clicks/sharability. it's jangling keys in front of a baby, 'look what we can do', but without any substance. it's like a lame office water cooler video. that sounds harsher than i mean for it to be. it feels to me like visual vomit that's only technically difficult, and if you like it that's cool.[/QUOTE] You simplify it down too much. Constructing complex and entertaining videos like OK GO does isn't something like meaninglessly splashing pastel water colours on a canvas and going "hey look it looks nice!" like you make it out to be, there's some real effort, thought, and passion that goes into these productions. If you're looking for meaningfully profound videos that have incredible sense of storytelling, character/world building, amazing imagery and deep symbolism in a pop music video, you're a bit crazy. You can find these types of videos uninteresting and I'm fine with that, but trying to downplay them as "technically difficult visual vomit" is just ridiculous. If it's visual vomit that's technically difficult then with that mindset any video that has the "substance" that you want is just thoughtful vomit that takes a while to think of, and even I know saying that is far-fetched. The amount of thought, effort, and passion that goes into making these videos isn't any less than the amount of thought, effort and passion that novelists use to create and write stories, which is what I think you don't understand. They're just different types of storytelling. But that doesn't mean there's less substance in one of them. There's plenty of substance here, you're just not seeing it.
[QUOTE=Rusty100;52918465]nobody is upset, nor am i saying it should be 'more like other' music videos, i just don't think it's even remotely interesting. there are plenty of different types of music videos, and I think this type is conceptually dull and pandering for clicks/sharability. it's jangling keys in front of a baby, 'look what we can do', but without any substance. it's like a lame office water cooler video. that sounds harsher than i mean for it to be. it feels to me like visual vomit that's only technically difficult, and if you like it that's cool.[/QUOTE] So you don't like experimental art. That's fine.
It just feels dirty to call anything someone puts that much effort into "click bait"
Video clip made me get some mad 1980's IBM/HP advertisement vibes, probably from the clickbait and jankiness
[QUOTE=Bridger;52918927]If clickbait starts meaning that I'm highly entertained by both a catchy song and visually pleasing music video (both with high production value.) then I would be beyond fuckin' okay with that. Really though I can get the "getting bored cause they do the same thing over and over again" angle. but clickbait? C'mon that's gotta be bait.[/QUOTE] Also, not only do they not do the same thing every time they're so clever at coming up with new and unheard of ideas that they gave a TED talk about it [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyOSqjIABe0[/media] [editline]24th November 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=usaokay;52918952]This music video pretty much sealed the deal for me by buying their album.[/QUOTE] They said in the behind the scenes that the counting we hear in the song is an overlayed recording of the dancers, that they count to keep time and it just happens to be extremely fitting for the song. So cool. :excited:
I feel like OK Go would be better off as a production company. Their music is always so bland and shlocky, especially the song in OP (Like, those solo vocals are just.. Yikes), only barely propped up by interesting video ideas. Everybody knows OK Go's music videos but I don't know a single person in the whole world that actually listens to them for the music. [editline]24th November 2017[/editline] I also feel like this video would have been much more enjoyable without them spinning and doing "cute" poses and motions in front of the wall of papers. If the camera had just panned around and shown me this giant animating wall of printers I would have been a lot more impressed.
Is this the same OK Go that was featured in the Burnout games soundtrack? Or am I mixing things up here?
[QUOTE=NitronikALT;52919926]Is this the same OK Go that was featured in the Burnout games soundtrack? Or am I mixing things up here?[/QUOTE] yea its the same ones, I can see what people mean though, they have gone a bit shitty in terms of actual music production. I love watching their videos, but the last song I actually enjoyed was I wont let you down (one with the dancers and the drone) [video=youtube;dTAAsCNK7RA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTAAsCNK7RA[/video] surprised no ones posted the classic yet tbh
[QUOTE=NitronikALT;52919926]Is this the same OK Go that was featured in the Burnout games soundtrack? Or am I mixing things up here?[/QUOTE] I'm not a big fan of OK Go, but Do Want You Want holds dear through my childhood just because of Burnout. They were also a pretty weird band during their early days, [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q_mCZHsVEA"]like putting in a 35 minute track on to one of their albums of just one of the bandmate's girlfriend sleeping.[/URL] [QUOTE]"9027 km" is a 35-minute track on the US version of the album that is not included on the cover sleeve. It is a low-grade recording of frontman Damian Kulash's sleeping girlfriend. After parting with the label, Kulash would later admit that was a hasty recording that he made before submitting the final album to the record label. The track was added to pad out the CD and thereby prevent their label from using the extra space to add DRM software, which would limit transfer of the music from the CD.[2] Kulash justified the inclusion of this track to the label as an old "love note" recording sent from his girlfriend while he was away recording the album and that it would have to be included in its entirety as his artistic license. He later reported that the label could have easily uncovered the truth - that the track was a hasty addition - because there were faint sounds of fireworks in the background of the recording, dating the recording to the 4th of July just before it was submitted. The name of the track is based on the distance between Malmö, Sweden and Los Angeles, California (9027 kilometers), where Kulash and his girlfriend were respectively based during the production of the album.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=27X;52917389]Luckily the song is really fuckin catchy cause "band does viral thing" has reeeeeeeally worn out said welcome.[/QUOTE] Yeah I hate the part where they put love, effort and significant dedication into making interesting, well crafted, beautifully timed pieces of art to match the equally great music they build it around. Fuck those guys for doing a thing and getting really good at it. It's stale as fuck tbh.
[video=youtube;BFh8iLfCIRQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFh8iLfCIRQ[/video] a real behind the scenes video.
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