Video Saved the Radio Star

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I suspect it may just the incessant repetition that MTV subjects us to, but several songs that had previously seemed quite "bleh" to me have gotten much better now that I've seen the videos. For example, "Ain't No Other Man" is, in fact, better than "Deja Vu," although that was not my initial thought. (And, somewhat off-topic, Paris' "Stars Are Blind" is actually quite good, albeit not a stormer. You cannot imagine my dismay at waking up to a great new Gwen Stefani song, only to look again and see hawk-nosed, anorexic Paris tilting her head back in the California sun.)

Presumably this has been discussed many times before, but I'm curious how other people use or are used by videos in their pop consumption.

Comments

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I don't know whether this counts but for me it's very important whether a video moves in time with the beat of the song- not rigidly, necessarily but some seem to clash really badly ('Long Hot Summer' seemed particularly out of synch) and it really makes or breaks a video for me.