The new Broken Social Scene video is a pastiche of shocking news footage and ugly still photos that basically amounts to the same "We are Rome before the fall! The world is ending!" gist you've seen projected on wall space at too many college art shows. But the editing is so expertly crisp and the song itself so propulsive and engaging that by the end, you find yourself ready to sign up for the revolution. The you're like wait, what revolution? And then you just hope that huge packs of humboldt squid would come flying out of the oceans and finish us off already. Seriously great song, though.
Monday, July 19, 2010
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Maverick thinks you're being glib.
"Poke Link Lamont"
It wouldn't be a proper apocalypse without a Bieber-sighting at 0:34.
Gasp... you remind me Justin Bieber featured in a dream I had yesterday. He was someone's bitch I believe. Ricky Martin? Very disappointed in my dream production lately.
that made me want to bathe a hippy.
I was at a Pavement/Broken Social Scene concert recently (not for Broken Social Scene, obviously) and not only did they play for way too long, but Kevin Drew kept shouting earnest political statements, so everyone had to be like "right on, down with the fake lake" when really we were all just waiting for them to leave.
Hey --I was there too! I didn't mind the BSS show, and I can understand the urge to make political comments a week before the g20. But I agree --it was freaking hot out there and people just wanted to rock out! (Without alcohol, of course, due to a 4 hr line to the licensed area.)
I dig the video, for what it's worth.
aww that was a good one for me.
bonus: now go watch matchbox twenty's "how far we've come" video.
The video has a Tom Cruise fetish
It's fan-made, right?
You can totally tell, eh?
This is such a great song/video combination. I dare say it's even better than my own BSS fan-vid. I'll bet the band was taken aback
I'm a longtime fan of BSS and this song, but the video actually makes me want to sing up for the police force and beat some of the hippies at G20. Especially the guy in the red pants.
Is it just me, or is this video implying that not only is Canada responsible for Bieber and the G20 riots, but also Barack Obama and Google?
I thought the Beiber thing was actually pretty amazing - it looks like it was footage from the Much Music Video Awards, which is shot on Queen Street, right where all the riots were, like 1 week before the G20. At that point I was like "okay, maybe this is going somewhere."
But then it didn't.
Is that Freedom Rock?