I think Lita is baiting at this point. It's not about drugs at all! It's about something. But not getting high.
The video starts with a close up of a cup of hot coffee. That's a TMBG trademark.
Then BAM, the song proper starts. We see an astronaut costume holding up a rock. Look, I haven't even given an opinion of the video yet. Put it down. One of the singers is standing on a tall cylinder and the other is standing on a squat one that says Neptune. YEAH! NEPTUNE, THE LAST PLANET! The nerds (but I mean it affectionately here) rock on about a stone statue. They sing about how it inspired them. It's like it even kills them because they're so in awe. The astronaut comes to life and rocks with them.
The giants start skateboarding around a tunnel under wherever they are. Maybe it's Cape Canaveral because some guy in a control station launches... a small sky scraper. Sure, why not? The statue is now talking to the singer(s) so I'd expect this kind of thing. It gets a little uncomfortable when the guy starts to say that he prefers the statue to people. Well, all the great minds...am I right?
The giants sing about how the statue made them see the light. So much so that it's like they were disintegrated! The statue literally inspired the hell out of them. We see the skyscraper float around a blue basketball planet. Cut! Your fake Mars landing is all wrong.
The video inverts its colors as we see cardboard cut outs of old astronauts. The giants race around cubes with the planets names on them. One giant skateboards around the cut outs in the hall. Pfft, that statue inspired you to goof off, I think. Singer(s) tell us that there are now sirens. So I guess they really was cooked to dust. Maybe I'm wrong and this is really a song about an evil icon.
We next see various clips of the guys skateboarding and driving mixed with a volcano erupting. The last part of the song is the singers tell us that it's our turn to go up to the statue and be inspired, or be hit by evil statue laser eyes, or whatever the point of this song is. It'll happen. You have no choice. The giants are shown burning. The video ends with one last look at the blue basketball planet.
I don't know what the song is about. It's about being inspired by a statue or it's about a warning against worshiping idols. I'd put my money on the former. The song is ok, but I already like the group so maybe I'm biased. The video has astronauts and that's it.
The awesome part of the video is the skateboarding around the astronaut.
2 comments:
Why can't it just be a song about a freaky statue that hypnotizes you before it sets you on fire?
Now cue Mickety coming in to explain how we're all morons and the song is a metaphor for Communism or something.
I hate this video. There is no awesome thing about it. When I watch it I feel sorry for the people in it. This video was made more than 10 years ago, but we can still witness the horror today. Years from now people will still be able to watch these poor people embarrass themselves by appearing in this horrible video. The very idea of this makes me feel sad. Sad for the people in the video. Sad for the viewers. Sad for humanity.
The only way to make this video awesome is to watch it with your eyes closed.
Because the song is pretty good.
EVERY SIMPSON DANCE NOW! BOM-BOM BOM...er, sorry. I've got season 10 playing on the dvd player (I want a computer with a dvd player. Why can't I have a computer with a dvd player?)
Um....what were we talking about?
Oh. THIS video.
It's not great. This was supposed to be their big budget triumphant return after having big hits off their last album, and you can tell by the commentary on their video collection dvd it didn't come out as they hoped.
And yet, after Birdhouse, this is the video I see the most on VH1 Classic (And M2, back when they both played videos and back when they randomized their videos), which is funny since they have other legitimate hits.
Couple things: It's not the Giants in the spacesuits skateboarding, it's two random kids that were there that day. Both kids spent most of the shoot wiping out, which would've made the video better. They should have went with that footage.
2, You're damn skippy coffee is a They trademark. There's even a whole segment of the documentary about the band about coffee. Which is....odd.
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