Today's video is done by the White Stripes, which is either a type a gum or a song featured in a movie about a janitor strangling teenagers. The song is called "Fell In Love With A Girl" which is something a person can do.
It's a lean 2 minutes long and can be found here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWHyNnsjsJQ
Neat. The music video is gimmicky in the same way the 3d pin art one was and the keleidoscope of inkblot tests by Gnarls Barkley. I guess I'm a sucker for neat visual gimmicks. Everything is done by legos. Sometimes the White Stripes are shown in real time in lego form, other times little stick figures are beating on drums. The stick figures remind me of Videlectrix graphics.
The video starts with a little kid building stuff while the camera is undercranked. We eventually see a countdown, which leads to some transparent, glowing blocks that look like a part of some music equipment. Then we see stick figure girl play the drums as the song starts. We go back between her and a non stick figure of the guitar player. Some stick figures walk in the background. The lyrics are sung really fast, as if White Stripes were in a hurry the day they recorded this song.
Suddenly lego people jump into a blue background. Then stick figure White Stripes run back and forth. Then they ride bikes! The non-stick figure guitar guy reminds me of Kiss if only because he has white lego skin and black hair. Suddenly theirs cars driving in the background. They don't animate well, but if you stop the video you can catch a couple good instances of them. A bus drives by, and then we see pedestrian signal lit up. Then there's some really weird stick figures followed by a crosswalk sign.
I'm skipping a bit, but there's a scary scene where we see a non-stick figure version of the drummer. Yikes.
I had to listen to the lyrics a few times, but it seems to be about a guy who falls in love with a girl who sees him as a brief fling. She already has a boyfriend, and she's ok with cheating a little. The guy, being a guy, can't get his mind off her.
I love the use of legos. I should have written about legos before. Too bad the video is short, but I can understand why given how long it would have taken.
1 comment:
The White Stripes are a band consisting of Jack White and his sisterwife, Meg White. You can tell them apart if you remember that Jack is the talented one.
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