1.18.2007

Metronomy

posted by Travis


Metronomy – “Trick Or Treatz” (YouTube)

The dancing badgers in Metronomy’s “Trick Or Treatz” video are pretty damn cool — but why the click lights? The video itself seems a bit of a derivative of the Goldfrappish anamorphic human-animal hybrid thing, but stands pretty well on its own. It always helps to have a pretty damn good track backing the visual.

Metronomy
  • Rogier

    goldfrapp???

    I don't understand how you can raise these questions with this video and then just accept the video of kelis as sweet bread!

  • http://bigstereo.net/ Travis

    oh but you're comparing apples and oranges. the kelis video is enjoyable on the most simple level. and that is about it.

    this metronomy video is derived from half a dozen videos during the past 12-24 months. i've seen every single image, shot, idea already. there is not a single original idea… and for something that is trying so hard to be "original", well that's sad. it's a good video, but… it's trying too hard to be something greater than it is.

    i read somewhere (?) that the director is 15 years old. don't know if that's true, but if so then great. he did an awesome job. i can't wait to see his career in ten years.

    now the song. that is brilliant. let's not debate it.

  • Rogier

    haha ok

    …maybe it's because english is not my mothertongue, but i didn't get that you liked the kelis video because it's a… uhm… simple one. i thought you actually loved it.

    i don't really understand why indie bands want to make videos so badly anyways… i don't need it so much, to see their make-up faces be cool, doesn't excite me. let's just keep it to good music.

    indeed the song is marvellous









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