We conclude this day and month with this final video. Don't worry, there are some plans for daily content for August. It won't be about music videos but it'll still be great. Today's video is Bowie's In Space. It is by the Flight of the Concords and is 3 minutes long. Try to control yourself as you watch it.
Huh. The earlier Flight of the Concords song was one of the best songs of the month, yet this one was disappoining. I had a hard time understanding the band members and the song didn't pick up till half way through.
This song is like the end of the trilogy of space themed music videos we did this month. This song is all about poking fun at David Bowie's Space Oddity by making Bowie the object of the song.
We start with some glowing green anime figure going into warp or something. But who cares? We see the glasses guy through a cylinder. The other guy shows up and they start singing about Bowie being in space. I just realized that they were mocking Bowie with the way they sing the song. I guess it's funnier if you're more familiar with Bowie and Space Oddity, but it went over my head. It's still a little annoying. Glasses guy asks if Bowie if it's cold. They're joking that Bowie is lost in space, just like the Major Tom character. While we see the two float around in a spaceship they ask Bowie if his nipples are hard from the cold and if they act as antennae. Hopefully Bowie wrote a song called "Nunya!"
They ask him if he has several space suits, mocking his Changes song. They ask him if he smokes grass or astroturf. I'm not sure what that refers to but they probably just zinged him. I have to poin out that glasses guy looks a bit like Austin Powers, especially from the awful second movie.
Suddenly the song picks up and gets more cheerful. This is an odd shift, but I did complain that Space Oddity shifted gears for no apparent reason. We see multi-colored astronauts play instruments as our protagonists wear dumb silver costumes. Glasses guy calls up the other guy whose floating alone in space and they have a "Bowie to Bowie" conversation. They chat and other guy says he's hanging out with Mick Jagger-nauts. We get to the tragedy part and the other guy describes it as a lsd trip. Oops, the dirty secret of Major Tom is out now. The spaceship, which looks Enterprise-ish, goes off in the distance.
This song is a little better than I first thought, but I still find the way they sing annoying. It's like they're trying to hard at the fake accents. The second part of the song is definitely stronger than the first part. The video is ok, except for all those tight suits. Bleh.
The awesome part is the keyboard controls for the ship. It's impractically but it's cool, especially under the old space controls.
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