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Name this genre
Jan. 28th, 2018 10:39 pmConsider first https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCDIYvFmgW8 Weapon of Choice, in which Christopher Walken dances around a predominantly brown hotel, with occasional wirework flying and some good use of mirrors (you can just spot the camera rig if you look carefully). The lyrics have no particular connection to the video.
Next look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABz2m0olmPg KENZO World, in which Margaret Qualley dances around a predominantly brown (OK, verging on yellow) hotel, with some flying at the end (I don’t know what technique) and much better use of mirrors (they either did a better job of positioning the camera or edited it out). Also, laser fingers. If the singing means anything it’s not a language I speak, so I couldn’t say whether the lyrics are connected to the video. Anyway it’s very clearly inspired by Weapon of Choice.
After that see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QFvgHIJrEQ - Anna, in which Emma Stone dances around a substantially brown hotel¹, assisted by some quite buff sailors. This has less in common with the other two: the only mirrors are spotted are her shades, the only fx I spotted was a simulated roll, and the video does actually reference the lyrics at one point.
¹ yes, it’s a ship, but it’s been permanently moored since the 1960s and functions as a hotel.
I think the style and setting od these three music videos means they form a genre, although I don’t know what it would be called.
I’ve been wondering for a while whether there was anything else in the same genre, and recently ran into https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni75mYuwvlg Stay Awhile, in which Zooey Deschanel (in the company of M. Ward) dances around a residence rather than a hotel, with rather less brown (though it’s there if you look for it). On the one hand the lyrics don’t directly connect to what’s going on in the video, on the other hand the dancer is singing them. Instead of wirework I think the fx involve people in chroma key suites. I think there’s enough similarity here to say there’s a close relationship to the three videos above.
Does anyone know of anything else which might fit into the same category, or have a good name for it?
Next look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABz2m0olmPg KENZO World, in which Margaret Qualley dances around a predominantly brown (OK, verging on yellow) hotel, with some flying at the end (I don’t know what technique) and much better use of mirrors (they either did a better job of positioning the camera or edited it out). Also, laser fingers. If the singing means anything it’s not a language I speak, so I couldn’t say whether the lyrics are connected to the video. Anyway it’s very clearly inspired by Weapon of Choice.
After that see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QFvgHIJrEQ - Anna, in which Emma Stone dances around a substantially brown hotel¹, assisted by some quite buff sailors. This has less in common with the other two: the only mirrors are spotted are her shades, the only fx I spotted was a simulated roll, and the video does actually reference the lyrics at one point.
¹ yes, it’s a ship, but it’s been permanently moored since the 1960s and functions as a hotel.
I think the style and setting od these three music videos means they form a genre, although I don’t know what it would be called.
I’ve been wondering for a while whether there was anything else in the same genre, and recently ran into https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni75mYuwvlg Stay Awhile, in which Zooey Deschanel (in the company of M. Ward) dances around a residence rather than a hotel, with rather less brown (though it’s there if you look for it). On the one hand the lyrics don’t directly connect to what’s going on in the video, on the other hand the dancer is singing them. Instead of wirework I think the fx involve people in chroma key suites. I think there’s enough similarity here to say there’s a close relationship to the three videos above.
Does anyone know of anything else which might fit into the same category, or have a good name for it?
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