Today's video is Radiohead. It's by a band named Just and it's four minutes long.
I realized two things while watching this video. One, I had this band last year. Two, I confused the band's name with the song again.
Our video starts with somebody pressing play. But it also starts with some defeated person looking over their bathtub while wearing a robe. It's so dark and grey that I was wondering if he was sent to Room 101 or something. Guy disrobes while we cut to an apartment where Radiohead is starting their song. Orange hair lead singer goes on about how our protagonist feels that he can't get the stink out after several days. Right off the bat we know this isn't going to be any less gloomy than Creep. At least the song sounds a little cheerful.
Somehow the person in the video has done something really dumb and it's catching up to him. Meanwhile the guy in the video is walking to work wearing a suit. He suddenly stops and freezes in place. Radiohead sings the refrain, which is about how whatever it was he did, he alone is responsible for it. Whatever it is, it's self-destructive, as we're about to see. The guy suddenly lies on the ground. I've felt really bad but never this bad. I'm not unsympathetic even if I don't know what it is he's doing to himself.
Some dork trips over the guy. Dork apologizes thinking he was just careless. Meanwhile orange hair doesn't feel any sympathy for our protagonist. The next set of lyrics makes it look like the protagonist was drunk and violent and needed to be locked out of the apartment. Ok, at least I understand now why the singer hates his subject. That's it for the song, because the refrain repeats twice. Meanwhile, dork is talking with the guy on the ground and is getting angry as the guy continues to lie and evade questions. A crowd gathers and the guy does everything to make sure that they stay there, even if that's not his intention. An officer appears, but that doesn't help the situation.
The guy on the ground acts as if he has a earth-shattering secret that mustn't be leaked. Dork gets way to involved as he and the cop continue yelling at the man to find out what's the problem is. Finally, the man reveals it. He mouths something and a moment later the crowd is lying on the ground next to him. We never find out what it is.
I like this song a little more than Creep. The video is really sad even with the silly ending.
The awesome part of the video is when the orange hair singer spazzes out while singing. He's really good at that part.
3 comments:
In the day and age of YouTube, how on Earth has the MTV News bit with Crow, Servo, and Mike riffing this video not shown up on YouTube? I'm sorely disappointed.
Protip #1: The guy with the orange hair and the wonky eye in this video is Thom Yorke
Protip #2: Believe it or not, the lyrics to a song are often written long before the video has even been conceived! This means that while a music video might be based on or inspired by the lyrics to the song it goes to, the reverse is not true! Thus, it's not always safe to assume that the song in your music video is actually about the main character who appears in it.
New video, which history suggests that wurwolf won't like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPswnZolFGE
You're right, I didn't like it. I don't like female singers at all. The only one I can even sort of stand is Feist, because I do like her voice and her phrasing.
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