HEARTSREVOLUTION
19 September 2008 :: posted by TravisAstute reader “El Dorado” left this comment on our recent HEARTSREVOLUTION post:
They may be trying to mature as artists… but whats with all this romanticizing suicide bullshit?
The video for Digital Suicide is pure cheese.
…Promoting suicide is known as one of the lamest gimmicks a band can use to sound ‘edgy’… continued.
I had not seen the video (til now) but had previously thought the song itself was more of a metaphor for a loss of innocence rather than a literal suicide. Maybe I’m thinking too much — but doesn’t the video confirm that thought?
Suicide — not hot… but there’s actually something very beautiful about “Digital Suicide” that is missing with a lot of HEARTSREVOLUTION’s contemporaries.
Thoughts?
© 2005-2010 BIGSTEREO.
isn’t it “suicide all my tendencies”?
anyways, penis
September 19th, 2008 at 3.16 pm
More of a cute vignette than block of cheese a la Michael Stipe Crying in traffic. Big Fun – Don’t Do It.
Ain’t no reason not to use a word just cause it’s most taboo. It is a metaphor/placeholder. I remember The Faint took some heat for Agenda Suicide too. And when Lemmings was released for the 386… all hell broke loose.
I hope this gets flipped into something danceable.
September 19th, 2008 at 4.29 pm
very touching.
September 19th, 2008 at 5.37 pm
donkeybasketball: Its already been danceably flipped on the EP.
September 19th, 2008 at 6.26 pm
http://www.mixwit.com/dearantler/digital-suicide
Hyped up mix from the CD. Its the first track on there, only place I could find it on the net. Its not danceable PERSAY but I could find a place for it in a set no problem.
http://www.zshare.net/audio/17279319319231f1/
And there’s a Sonic Me remix of it that takes it a little more low and slow.
September 19th, 2008 at 6.37 pm
suicide is really hot.
population control.
September 21st, 2008 at 9.36 pm
soylent green is human
September 22nd, 2008 at 8.30 am
VIDEO CLIP BY BASTIEN LATTANZIO
September 22nd, 2008 at 9.56 am
can the chick actually sing or do they always depend on really bad distortion masking and vocal mods?
September 22nd, 2008 at 2.21 pm
Who cares? I like it.
September 23rd, 2008 at 6.07 am
hey el dorado,
fuck you.
the video isn’t about suicide…and you probably don’t even understand the song..and none of it is trying to “romanticize” anything.
hearts, lo
ps. you suck
September 23rd, 2008 at 9.29 am
heartschallenger is sooo righteous and mature. kind of like a fundamentalist that can use the fuck words. almost cute. in a way
but izn’t heartschallenger also way hypocritical? the lyrics sound like ’stop the world I want to get off”. if so, el dorito might have a point. that’s pretty corny. for serious.
and if not, what IZ dis song about?
for all of us who don’t understand it
Ps – la riots remix of heartsrevolution, not so bad.
September 30th, 2008 at 6.29 am
Yo Heartschallenger,
It seriously looks like the tip of that knife is going for that girl’s wrist on the cover of the Switchblade EP. And Digital Suicide does sound like a kinda pretty, haunting sweet suicide anthem. Making suicide taboo as a topic would be completely stupid, though making it sound so pretty to highly impressionable youths is definitely gimmicky.
Okay okay. Maybe it’s not fair – even a bit dickish – to call the video pure cheese. The lighting is cool. Love the shout out to Sonic Youth. And you two both look like models.
But what’s up? Why not give a little insight into this work instead of such a defensive response.
If you don’t let us know a little bit of what your artwork is about, then the world only has the impressions your work leaves to form an opinion.
Lately, this impression seems to include a romanticism of suicide. And that certainly doesn’t sound like any of the options that were in any of the Choose Your Own Adventure books I read growing up…
Though that would have been pretty fucking hilarious. And maybe too resonant with the real dangers of the lame cultural void enveloping modern suburban youth and other troubled young folks around the world.
By the way, to quote the petite and often times pretty damn funny Kat Williams: people need to be more thankful for their haters. :)
October 1st, 2008 at 2.50 am
i’m unfortunately going to have to agree that this is quite cheesey and a tad immature. it’s a cool idea and i totally dig heartsrevolution, but what they had in mind for this video started off good but was definitely executed poorly.
better luck next time?
October 15th, 2008 at 11.49 pm
ok,
1st of all..the video for this song was made by a friend of ours, bastien lattanzio, without an direction from us. the video he made was about a couple breaking up…that has nothing to do with the song.
2nd
the song was originally titled, sonic youth w/ suicidal tendencies..
named after two of my favorite bands and I FEEL it captures the essence of our generation..self destructive, medicated for one reason or another and still full of limitless dreams and potential.
3rd
the song is about death, death of your childhood dreams, the ones you trade in to fit in better with your peers.. the dreams that society tells us are unattainable.
4th
that is the world i choose not to want to live in the one i was talking about.
and sometimes the world makes me sick to my stomach..i can’t think about being here another day longer..
5th
how many artists you love actually have something to say?
please tell me who? justice? mstrkrft? who?
i am over dance music..
there is no need for me to apologize for speaking from my heart.
6th
i agree some music should make you feel good and make you want to get up and dance..but, i am fucking sick of dance music.
and lastly..
it is really easy to sit back and pass judgement..
but, unless you walk in another mans shoes..you really have no idea what the fuck you are talking about..
i only responded to the original comment about trying to be “edgy” and talking about suicide as some sort of gimmick
that is bullshit.
hearts, Lo
December 29th, 2008 at 12.07 am
ps.
that picture came from a photo shoot we did with todd selby.
he takes photos of people in there home.
check it out
theselby.com
he shot me with all of my toy transformer guns i have from japan.
and we are shooting the official video for digital suicide next month..
i hope you like it..i will post it here.
x Lo
December 29th, 2008 at 12.17 am
Why is it so taboo? Just singing of a feeling. Everyone thinks of suicide. It’s a good piece. And the dance one is off the HOOK.
April 7th, 2009 at 1.37 am