Our centennial post* is about the color red. Imagine if the Virtual Boy was so popular that we were on the third iteration of it and you get the look of this video. In the video we watch a man following a woman for reasons. Let us begin.
[* - Well it feels like it takes me a hundred years to write these things.]
We get a few quick shots of the man and woman. The woman is a brunette wearing a necklace and a pretty dress. The man has a ridiculous beard that looks like he's about to go on an embarrassing talk show so he's disguising himself. Adding to that effect is his sunglasses at night. No, they don't make you look cool!
Woman is walking down the back street of some place. There's no one around and this doesn't look safe at all. The man is following her around some corner. He has what looks to be a dog cane, too. Or maybe it's a dog gun. Dog umbrella handle? The singer takes the point of view of the stalker. He sings about how the crappy day is over and he can't get this woman out of his head. Easy there, buster. You have a cool cane but that's not enough to win a girl's heart.
(Is it? Don't tell me it was that easy!)
Man is singing that this girl he's infatuated with is way different from all the other girls in his life. He's bored of them. He likes her because she's different. The title reflects how he's convinced that she's a break from all those other women that weren't for him. "WHOO!" Gah! This guy is a terrible stalker as the woman, who was already looking over her shoulder, looks back after this outburst from the song. The guy howls some more, and makes me wonder if he's suppose to be a werewolf. It does explain his hairy face and the constant cuts to the moon.
A car drives by and the driver and his dog stares at the stalker. They seem to be disgusted by the guy. Hey, you can't judge him unless you've stalked too! Or something. Meanwhile the woman is now walking on train tracks. Where the heck is she going? Singer tells us that he's more alone then ever. It's a chilly autumn night (not in the video) and he really needs the girl. So far this month we've had songs that sound like yearning but look like trailing. The man leans over from behind a building to peek at the woman. Yeah, you'll catch her soon Solid Snake.
He repeats the deal about how he needs some flesh blood in his life. Finally in the video the woman turns around and notices him. Her defense is to...circle him. His response is to... stand still. That was kind of a letdown. I guess she feels she doesn't need mace. The video ends...
Oh wait, it's only halfway over. We get to the next part of the song where WHAT THE?! Ok, now things get weird. There's a Mexican wrestler thrown into the mix. The singer tells the object of his affections that the fear she has? In her heart she knows it's not real. Of course, he could have made his point a bit less awkwardly phrased. Woman looks back once again, but she's defeated by the man's ability to look at his own feet.
There were actually two Mexican wrestlers, and we're getting closer to a showdown. The wrestlers walk up to the man and he points a gun at them. No wait, it's his dog cane. Hey, his cane was lowered, but then he raised it! Get it!?
An action scene breaks out. The stalker wins by his patented cane push move. The wrestlers are left to curse at the moon. It's not the moon's fault, you dopes, unless gravitation played a part in the fight. Singer finishes the song by telling the girl that she needs to rescue him. Yeah, this is going to be a healthy relationship. Finally the woman decides to run.
Not for long, though. She lost him by ducking into a wearhouse, but now she's at a home with a pool in the back. Then she WHOA. Then she strips down to a bikini and dives in. She swims to a reflection of the moon in the pool. Sadly, the man had caught up to her, and is greeted with her dull surprise. Fade to black.
As you can see the song is about a guy who's had failure in past loves and thinks the new girl is totally different. The video takes a much different tone and makes it about a guy who's on a mission. He's like an animal after his prey.
This video was a nice change of pace. The song is slower paced then the previous days this month and is descent. The video is nice to look at.
The awesome part of the video that is not the pool or bikini is the wrestlers. What do they have to do with anything? Nothing, unless they represent the stalker's past. But they were so out of nowhere that I had to like them.
2 comments:
I'm thoroughly convinced that E (That would be Beardo. And yes, he has been pulled over as a suspected terrorist at least once) is Satan.
If Satan was a songwriting genius of our times anyway.
The album that this song comes from is part of a trilogy. The follow up album End Times (Which I highly recommend not be listened to with sharp objects nearby) tells the story of lost love (As evidenced by Fresh Blood, the first album is about the pursuit and the falling of said love)
The third, which is coming out soon, will be about rebounding, positivity and all that good crap. And the first song that's been released is a gospel revival song.
....yes. Really.
I was pleasantly surprised, when I googled this video, to discover that 98% of my search results were the actual video and NOT fan videos made by Twitards. I'd have thought the Edward and Jacob fans would be all over this.
In any video that involves Luchadores, the awesome thing will be the Luchadores. It is a law of the universe.
The other awesome thing is that E's beard only LOOKS like a ridiculous fake.
The other other awesome thing is that my monitor is an elderly POS so that I spent a not insignificant portion of this darkish video looking at a black rectangle.
The not awesome thing was the girl taking off her clothes and jumping in the pool. That is not what you do when being stalked by a scary bearded weirdo, honey. Get a stun gun.
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