| Land of Confusion |
[Jan. 29th, 2007|06:09 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  disappointed | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Garbage - Vow | ] |
One of the wise-acres at The Onion declared the Arcade Fire's cover of Boys of Summer as missing the point. I assume that they meant that it was sped up fiendishly, which misses the original's point in that it is about nostalgia which, sure as heck, should not be sped up.
But so, I now get the watching of a song that one loved as a kid be betrayed badly, though in this case not by the cover song, which is fine, but by the video which shows what the band _thinks_ the song is about, which is completely totally wrong.
This is the original Genesis video for the song Land of Confusion. It is a genuinely brilliant video should you have watched the Muppets religiously, as I did. It is also brilliant in that it plays with the ideas of the super-power America before the superpower America even existed as such. But so the point, to some extent of the song is that no single person no mattter how hard they try can fix the universe. It is about all of us working together. And deciding that it is time to work together.
This is the Disturbed video of the cover version. And it is directed by Todd McFarlane whom I have gone from respecting to completely hating on in the last couple of years. God, he sucks. But so where to start on how awful this video is?
It posits a super-hero, of course as that is McFarland's schtick, but it then makes him somehow rile the masses even though he is clearly _other_ than the normal people and the symbology is just awful. I can't think about this sharply. It is bad. On levels that the person not steeped in popluar culture will miss, but it is bad on the levels they can see also. And instead it is getting praise. |
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