Music Video #59 (Day 31 of 2008, Part 1?)

Today's music video is Everlong by the Foo Fighters. And I'm doing it for real today. Sorry about the delay. Real life got in the way.


Ok, so Lita showed me this video before, but it wasn't for a Video Challenge entry. I remember this video for the band member dressed as the blonde woman. I was trying to determine if it was a man or not for a while.

This video starts in black and white outside in some woods. Two people sneak up to...somewhere. Then we go inside a large house where we see several pictures of a couple. The wife/girlfriend is played by a man dressed as a woman, but he does look like very much like a woman from some angles. They're both in bed sleeping. The video is about dreams, as we see several of them.

First dream is the guy's. He imagines himself much younger with ridiculous spiky hair. He has a jacket with an manarchy symbol. He goes to a party and it's in color. The lyrics start as the singer addresses an unseen person. He says that he's been waiting to meet that person for a long time. He says something about throwing himself in and out of the red, which I don't understand. The person he meets is a she and she sings about wanting him to join her so they can waste away. Singer finds himself in over his head as the girl sings some more. Meanwhile the guy sees the blonde at the party and two guys with mutton chops are groping her. This angry ups the man as we then skip to the blondes dream while she's in some woods at night. It's spooky but it's just set up for later in the video.

As the refrain starts the man's hand gets really huge as if he just ate his spinach. He beats up the two guys while all the women at the party look on concerned. One of the mutton chops is tossed around like a doll. The singer is singing with the girl and he feels good and real. That's kind of odd given what she just said to him. Between the way he feels around her and the violent defense of the girl in the video, I'm wondering if this could be considered romantic. If it was, than it's definitely a weird example.

The mutton chops disappear from his dream and end up in hers. Meanwhile the man drags his future wife/girlfriend into a room, only to find that there's only a large telephone in it. He struggles with it until he wakes up. We jump back into the blonde's dream which turns into a horror movie. She's alone in a cabin trying to protect herself from a ax-wielding mutton chop guy. Insert Abe Lincoln meme here. The muttons attack while blonde calls the police. Her husband/boyfriend is in the dream picking up sticks somewhere. Meanwhile singer is singing about wanting to breathe in the girl. He thinks she's out of her head but he doesn't care. The refrain repeats but now he's the one who's suppose to be singing it.

The blonde is tied to the chair. Her guy tries to wake her up for a phone call but gives up and goes back to sleep. He dreams about going back to the party and being in an orgy but his dream fades and he's suddenly has leg-chucks while being in the blonde's dream. He saves the day by using his Popeye hand again. Blonde helps and they smile afterward. He drags the mutton chops to water while she's still tied up following him.

Suddenly the muttons attack in the real world! A member of the band comes out of their bodies through their mouths. The blonde takes his wig off and reveals a drum set under the bed. The band rocks out while the refrain plays one last time.


This is a good song and it's hard to believe it's a love song. The video clearly shows popular fantasies of men and women. In this case, the guy wants to save the girl while the girl wants to be rescued. It's funny cause if you just watched it without the music you would conclude that it was just a goofy Night of the Living Dead or whatever take off.

The awesome thing is the leg-chucks. The unawesome thing is the fact that the drummer looks like an attractive girl from some angles.

Not this one, though.