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Arcade Fire Web Video Thingy Totally Worth It
I have to say, this film project for The Arcade Fire for "The Wilderness Downtown" totally was worth downloading Google Chrome to appreciate. Warning: sit back and relax, because it's going to open and close a lot of windows in a scary way. This is a really excellent case of musicians finding ways to work with image-makers, achieving results that really suit their style and intentions.
Really awesome and also VERY CREEPY.
HAUNTING. But also great. Shades of the old Psyop MTV HD spot.
The Arcade Fire is Tool for people who have English degrees.
Well, yeah. Or Coldplay for people who like David Sedaris.
I disagree. I think they're like Primus for people who are Yiffers.
They are like the Silversun Pickups for people who think they occupy a station far above the Silversun Pickups.
They're actually just Smash Mouth, with different haircuts! Most music journalists don't know that, because they never thought to ask what had happened to Smash Mouth.
The Arcade Fire is like a neverending viral lipdub by people who wish they could've been in The National's Apartment Story.
Liking the Silversun Pickups damages my hipster cred?
@DD: No, but living in Atlanta does.
Athens! I live in Athens! Hipster central!
Arcade Fire beats M.I.A. this round in Internet zeitgeist-iness. Douglas Coupland will write a book about this type of thing in about 5 years.
I really enjoyed waiting for the stacked black windows to do something, anything while the song played.
I am actually really into how my resources haven't recovered from all that running and growth.
I never thought pop-ups would be used in a way that could engage me.