Music Video #1: Let Forever Be

Ok, let's do this thing. Today's video is called Let forever Be. Despite that it's only 3:46 minutes long. Also, someone should get fired for that grammar error. The band is The Chemical Brothers, who I think I saw in a freaky rom hack of a Super Mario Bros. game.

The video can be found here at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJyHEhdszDg.



Ok, now I've watched it. The video reminds me of that photo commecial where photos blend into other video scenes, or vice versa. I might have seen an mp3 player that had a similar visual premise. Anyway, this video is far more ambitious then the photo commercial.

The video is about a red head who walks around and turns into six red-heads walking around. Half the time she is waking up or going to sleep, the other times she's lying on a hexagonal podium thingie with stairs. I like her short haircut.

The music is slow and soothing, despite the fact that it keeps asking questions. Hey, she was just sleeping! I'm never functional until the late afternoon, so I would hate if people were to start asking me how could I have done something after I woke up.

Ok, so I just looked at the lyrics posted by some youtube user. The questions were about how could it feel. I would still be too tired, but maybe this woman is more alert in the morning then me. Of course, I don't have the power to fracture reality and morph into six women.

One of things that stands out is that the woman isn't very good at being in sync with herself. At first I was going to joke about the dancers not practicing, but they may have just had the one woman dance several times over, and she couldn't do it the same way every time. Or maybe it was done on purpose.

I still like her haircut.

The only Chemical Brother in the video is presumably the Hagrid-ish drummer. I guess if anybody is going to have a long beard, it's going to be the drummer.

Man, the most nightmarish part of the video is when there's a ton of alarm clocks. I hate alarm clocks.

Judging from the lyrics, which I had to look up, and the visuals, I guess this video is about a woman tripping. I guess. It would explain her suddenly going from shining on people to ending up in the gutter so quickly. Although my idea of tripping is not going to the mall and buying candles and standing in front of a test pattern. (My conclusion may be way off and if it is I was probably biased by the band's name. If that's the case, this is going to be a fun month for you, the reader.)

Anyway, the "fractured reality" visuals in the video are neat, and I'll take it over those videos that have a million cuts per second.

One last view of the video shows that some of the women are different sizes. Maybe they are more then one person. How does it feel like not to rehearse, ladies?