Music Video Friday
Once upon a time, our main source of music videos was something called MTV. Nowadays, MTV is largely bereft of any musical content and we turn instead to the wonders of the Internet to fuel our music video needs. Fortunately, there are many creative types keeping the flame alive…
How To Build A Music Video
Here’s a very neat combination of choreography, cinematography and hip-hoptastic tunage by Nyle. This video was filmed in one continuous take (albeit after 31 takes), with the music layering up as instrumentalists appear as if from nowhere. So, let the beat build…
Nyle “Let The Beat Build” from Nyle on Vimeo.
Total Eclipse Of The Lyrics
Now for a change of pace – here’s a classic MTV generation music video given the Web 2.0 treatment in a surprisingly entertaining way. The lyrics to ‘Total Eclipse Of The Heart’ are here replaced by descriptions of what’s actually going on in the music video – which works really well, because the video itself is absurd to the point of generating its own Hawking radiation.