This video is all about a bridge in the middle of nowhere. The Gorillaz drive in their car over it as we wonder where the heck they are. We watch the 2d driver awkwardly interact with the 3d car. This isn't important, but his knuckles are ugly. The bridge is apparently in the middle of just whiteness. That's the best way to describe it.
The song starts with the pink hair guy, who is really ugly, singing about how time's are going to fast for him. He just bought some expensive tennis shoes to remind him of happier times that he once couldn't wait to put behind him. Driver suddenly does a wheelie because he can. His band members just stand up and grab a bar instead of freak out. I guess that's why I'm not in a band. Singer tells us that his mom gave him some advice about making your own shoes to slow things down. That's oddly specific yet vague. So singer tells us to stop dancing to Gorillaz music in a happy mood. Hey, happy wasn't the emotion I felt when I saw that anime girl thing dancing with the head.
The car turns around and passes under several low passages. I mean so low that I'm surprise they didn't kill the back passengers. A cop watches over them. Finally just when I was asking how real was this bridge, they reach a loop-de-loop. Can any science-types tell me if a car can really do this? Just curious. The girl, I think, says "here we go!" and sings about getting to a place that offers shoeshines. Nothing more than that. She seems to be enjoying herself immensely while the big guy next to her has a silent face of a guy about to explode. Also there's Japanese text, because they're animes and all.
They pass by several oil rigs. Can you imagine seeing hundreds of them on a trip across a real bridge? Suddenly the bridge is out, but they solve that problem the video game way. We see a blue monkey watching them make the jump. Singer goes on about some monkey that doesn't really do anything. It's trying to do stuff but it can't decide to follow his head or tail. Typical monkey! Anyway, if the Gorillaz face death like this dumb animal, they want you all to remember that the only important thing is which music clique we're apart of. Hmm, that leaves me in a bad situation.
The chorus repeats. The Gorillaz see a sign for a church that promises salvation, but they decide against it. This causes a UFO to attack them. Tough pastor. The UFO fires lasers at them. I think the pastor misread the parable of the good shepherd. The UFO blows up a gas station for no reason. Finally they lose it but they run into a giant moose. The Gorillaz try launching missiles at it but a sneeze ends up blowing up the Gorillaz instead.
This is an OK song. Not as good as some of the other Gorillaz song Lita has shown me. I don't think there's anything to the lyrics other than laying back and enjoying whatever you enjoy. The music video is neat when it focuses on anything but the band.
I have no idea what the song's title is about.
I prefer the laid-back original one to the remix.
The awesome thing is when the cardboard hillbilly is blown up so the Gorillaz can be rained by chunks of gas station asteroids.
3 comments:
"We watch the 2d driver awkwardly interact with the 3d car."
No, Tork. The driver is Murdoc. 2D is the lead singer.
"The song starts with the pink hair guy, who is really ugly, singing about how time's are going to fast for him."
2D, aka "The pink hair guy" has purple hair. You are so very colorblind.
I think most of your issues with the rest of this video have to do with your failure to notice that the band members are cartoons. They don't have to worry about physics or certain death or reality because those kinds of things generally don't apply to fictional animated characters.
The awesome thing in this video is the enormous moose.
Your new video is allegedly hosted in nice quality on an AOL site:
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/janes-addiction-just-because/2966343878
I refuse to believe that AOL still exists, let alone that they managed to do anything of quality, so here is a link to the same video in lower quality Dailymotion form:
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/addicted/video/xak4w_janes-addiction-just-because_music
You can choose to go with the imaginary site or the real site as you see fit.
You know, Tork can whine about the OMG ANIME VIDEO (which it isn't, but whatevs). Tork doesn't know it could be worse. A song sung by Brits but with an animated video? Yep. It could be sooooo much worse...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2qDP0XayA4
Hi! We're Offspring and we're an anime!
Ok, so they're not anime. Anime lacks animation.
They're anime inspired. Better?
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