In case you haven’t been paying attention, we may all get sucked into a black hole in like three days:
http://www.lhcountdown.com/
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html
Midnight Thursday night.
CERN Rap from Will Barras on Vimeo.
This video is pretty dope.
Wow, my jaw hit the floor. I checked my youtube descriptions and the official PUSA channel had updated like twelve things. One of them was KITTY! I click on it, and sure enough it’s what appears to be the official music video for the song that was never released.
Really cute. A few funny camera things, mainly when the cat goes through the doggy door. Barring that, it appears it was all done in one take… (It’s quite possible they pushed it through the door and someone inside grabbed it…)
I’ve marveled over this in the past:
This song is made entirely of sounds from Half Life 2.
Someone put together a song of similar concept, but made (almost) entirely of sounds from Team Fortress 2.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/448720
I have a schoolboy crush on the singer of “A Bird and a Bee.” She sang the “Again and Again” song that I squee’d all over, the fan-made Mac video with the cute girl in it.
Well my friends Myspace page had this new song on it, called “Polite Dance Song,” which is basically a really clever and breathy and sexy girl singing a dance song as politely as possible.
since i’m asking so nice
would you just entertain
there’s nothing left to hide you away
just show a little bit of brainyes that is what i mean
that’s the nail that i hit
i try to be as coy as i can
but i wanna see your naughty bit
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So I go to youtube to watch/listen to one of my favorite music ids, Knights of Cydonia.
In the comments, I see:
“MUSE + Joseph Kahn = GREATNESS”
I look up Joseph Kahn on google, and find his IMDB, then I see:
“Neuromancer (2009) (pre-production)”
OMG. /dies
Wow, Wow… Wowwowow. This video is all of my favorite things. What’s interesting is that the visuals don’t seem to mesh much with the lyrics but they really blew the roof off with all of the people they managed to get together for the video. And to even seal the deal they had them all in a scene together, looks like. Granted it could have been some special effect wizardry but I’m sold.
Stuff like this is so de facto, it’s getting harder and harder to top. Granted there won’t be ‘topping’ so much anymore as just evolving. We’ll grow out of the need to quote internet memes to top pop culture… right?
As an aside, it sucks but the Potter Puppet Pals were supposed to be in the video but it turns out the box got lost when they sent them out.
Original Video
Not really an exceptional video but it captures the song well. Somewhat dreamy. Music videos often are about repetition so ‘do it again’ and ‘again and again’ fit well as a chorus and visual concept.
Apple Mac Music Video
An amazing, amazing video using no special effects other then some time dilation, but with all of the footage taken from the desktop of a Mac. Very simple but very, very awesome. I had a similar idea where I wanted to handwrite the lyrics of the song while the person is singing but do the words out of order. Another idea was almost identical to the typing of the lyrics the person did but I wanted to do it with more of a cadence, possibly to the beat of the music, as well as being able to see my fingers dance on the keyboard. How cool would that be if he lead singer of a song could type that well/fast/whatever? It’d make for some cool visuals.
Also I am heart-exploady in love with the girl they used in the mac video.
Again & Again Windows Xp
This of course is the obligatory PC Version. I’ll keep my Mac vs. PC comments myself.
A clever but simple music video based on some popular bits of gaming culture, mainly “Rap Rap Revolution.” A game that doesn’t exist, but should. What’s interesting to me is that while I’m sure there are people out there who listen to hip hop and enjoy Bemani games, I would personally say that it’s not really the standard match-up. At the very least, not the cultural steriotype at all.
If anything, watch it for the cameo of a hamster. (??)