So it’s been awhile since the last song Saturday because I’ve been a faily. I was gonna do one a few weeks ago with Set It Off and Cody but just… didn’t. Maybe in the coming weeks.
However now I’m posting two vids, that I both watched yesterday and I’m posting them together because they have a similar (yet different!) vibe.
First is Funeral For A Friend, Serpents In Solitude.
Now I’d not listened to Funeral For A Friend for awhile, until writing the fic last week sparked me listening to them again. (I’m kinda sad I likely won’t be able to see their tour, both because of the venue choice and cost of the tickets both of which are ugh)
Anyway onto the song! It’s only one that I recognised by name, but I recognised it when I listened to it yesterday. And it’s pretty good but the main thing is the vid.
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carrythefire linked it me yesterday I couldn’t remember what it was by name alone, but when I pressed play and watched I vaguely remembered watching it an eternity ago. I love the slight found footage vibe at the start and how the band are unconscious throughout, being manhandled and strung up, manipulated as literal puppets. Apparently it’s a commentary on how musicians are used as puppets by the music industry but honestly? It just looks kinda kinky.
The only bad thing I’d say is that there’s not enough shots of Rich, because long haired Rich is such a good look and we only get a few flashes!
While Serpents is 12 (!) years old, this second video isn’t even 24 hours old yet. It’s the new Lovejoy video, for Normal People Things.
So the new Lovejoy song came out on midnight Friday and because of the timing I only listened to it once. For me I feel that it’s a grower of a song. When I heard Call Me What You Like, I instantly loved it. With this it feels like it’ll a slower creep (though again, it might be because of listening to it late). I definitely like it more after watching the accompanying video.
The video has the band in various 70’s style outfits and poses and, for most of it, they’re barely moving. Their only movement is Wilbur singing and the others playing their instruments. (And I love Mark’s lil drum that they have for him.) Towards the end there is a brief section where they do play normally, but that only highlights the contrast of the rest of the video.
(I think my favourite shot is about 1:50 in, where Wilbur is singing looking dead at the camera and stays still, while changing outfits and the others do too)
The thing is that there’s also flashes of actual mannequins and it just seems to hammer home that the band are actual mannequins or treated as them. And then that last shot, where they go from being energetic to completely still, like someone said a trigger which stopped them it’s so…
(And yeah there’s absolutely being a kinktober prompt based on this concept because it’s so….)
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There’ll be a more regular post at some point soon. (And I still need to post the round up thing)
However now I’m posting two vids, that I both watched yesterday and I’m posting them together because they have a similar (yet different!) vibe.
First is Funeral For A Friend, Serpents In Solitude.
Now I’d not listened to Funeral For A Friend for awhile, until writing the fic last week sparked me listening to them again. (I’m kinda sad I likely won’t be able to see their tour, both because of the venue choice and cost of the tickets both of which are ugh)
Anyway onto the song! It’s only one that I recognised by name, but I recognised it when I listened to it yesterday. And it’s pretty good but the main thing is the vid.
When
carrythefire linked it me yesterday I couldn’t remember what it was by name alone, but when I pressed play and watched I vaguely remembered watching it an eternity ago. I love the slight found footage vibe at the start and how the band are unconscious throughout, being manhandled and strung up, manipulated as literal puppets. Apparently it’s a commentary on how musicians are used as puppets by the music industry but honestly? It just looks kinda kinky.The only bad thing I’d say is that there’s not enough shots of Rich, because long haired Rich is such a good look and we only get a few flashes!
While Serpents is 12 (!) years old, this second video isn’t even 24 hours old yet. It’s the new Lovejoy video, for Normal People Things.
So the new Lovejoy song came out on midnight Friday and because of the timing I only listened to it once. For me I feel that it’s a grower of a song. When I heard Call Me What You Like, I instantly loved it. With this it feels like it’ll a slower creep (though again, it might be because of listening to it late). I definitely like it more after watching the accompanying video.
The video has the band in various 70’s style outfits and poses and, for most of it, they’re barely moving. Their only movement is Wilbur singing and the others playing their instruments. (And I love Mark’s lil drum that they have for him.) Towards the end there is a brief section where they do play normally, but that only highlights the contrast of the rest of the video.
(I think my favourite shot is about 1:50 in, where Wilbur is singing looking dead at the camera and stays still, while changing outfits and the others do too)
The thing is that there’s also flashes of actual mannequins and it just seems to hammer home that the band are actual mannequins or treated as them. And then that last shot, where they go from being energetic to completely still, like someone said a trigger which stopped them it’s so…
(And yeah there’s absolutely being a kinktober prompt based on this concept because it’s so….)
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There’ll be a more regular post at some point soon. (And I still need to post the round up thing)
