Funky beat-synched choreography, lively costumes, Daft F'N Punk, and the psychadelic stamp of Gondry-ness are just some of the things that describe this groundbreaking music vid from 1997. Visually stylish-director Michel Gondry's (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the Science of Sleep) first attempt at organized dancing, this vid was simply meant to be a visual illustration of the song: the bass is represented by super-tall humans, the spry glissandos by synchronized swimmers, the drum patterns by female mummies, the vocoderized "around the world" lyric by marching robots, etc. Just an all-around (the world, hehe) classic music video that still holds up to this day.
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yup! one of my faves as well, but it's been a long time. it came out when i was 13, found it funky, then only rediscovered its awesomeness again. all thanks to kanye west. go figure. haha
darthstalker wrote on Oct 30, '07, edited on Oct 30, '07
lollers. yes, it's always on some top-something list. have you seen his piano-painting sessions with björk? it's so turn-of-the-last-century surreal even in a home video that you'd think erik satie would just pop-up from nowhere. i was just discussing what's below with harley quinn in twitter last week. some chavette dancing to daft punk. lol.
bwahahaha, natawa ako dun ah. yup, even christian bautista could memorize it (snicker). i missed it to... geeze, i can't believe it was 10 freakin' years ago already. most of my vid posts have been old music videos i liked back then and am appreciating again now. like i've said in the past, it's always fun to take a stroll down memory lane...^_^
i love listening to daft punk and but this was their only song that i used to loathe (the video i loved watching though) but not as much as dayang dayang... it wasn't until five years ago when I downloaded daft punk songs onto my winamp that i started to appreciate it.
ryderaquino wrote on Oct 30, '07, edited on Oct 30, '07
oh, i'm like that too sometimes. hmm... i hated new wave when i was a kid. sounded cheesy to the max back then. but now i love it, cheese and all. haha. winamp. dang, i miss the simplicity of that program. i'd probably still be using it on my laptop if itunes didn't organize my music so damn well and hassle-free.
damn, that would hurt darthie. hahaha, well maybe the songs are alright... it's the music videos that are pure cheese. 'take on me' by aha was classic though. i love the whole animation/reality sequences...
hahaha, it's just a number. you know, i've always wondered why our parents still like the songs they grew up with. the oldies. so when we're they're age, i wonder if these songs will be our 'oldies' and what the hell 'new music' will sound like to our ears...
haha, malay mo diba? i'm sure when frank sinatra was new people at the time would never think it would be old. but hey, take the beatles. old band. but their songs are still much beloved to this day. same with hendrix, the doors, etc. i guess the true test of a classic really is time.
let's make a mini-time capsule! in the year 2030, we must look back at this post and talk about our generation's music and see if the younguns' feel our taste as 'old', haha.
okay, you obviously didn't get why i put the quotation marks on "sound". this does not "sound" old. i never said it wouldn't get old. of course it will, unless in some universe, you can make time stop or reverse. :p
i, on the other hand, get what you're saying :p. here's to remembering this post in 23 years time. how appropriate that it's the same amount of time you've been in this world. :))
i wasn't even born yet but you know how radio stations are, they play it until people's ears are maxed out after years on the air. examples would be that "ghost" song and that "titanic" song on the airwaves ad nauseum lollers
ooooh ok, silly me. i'm "sorry", hahahaha. the whole time stopping thing reminds me of a movie ol' darthie recommended, cashback. check it out, it's pretty nice.
wow, and as for the 23 years thing, i honestly just plucked 2030 from my ass when i was typing. funny you noticed that! what a pleasant albeit useless coincidence, hehe. observant young gal aren't ya?
ryderaquino wrote on Oct 31, '07, edited on Oct 31, '07
true true, especially here in the philippines. a lot of stations are dedicated to bonnie tyler, david pomeranz, james ingram, and such, haha. what's the 'ghost' song? unchained melody?
btw, how's the music there ba? any good local bands? i honestly don't know any band from there...
but i do love the faux new zealand band/tv show 'flight of the conchords'! wala lang.
we have a local scene that's entirely unique to the city that locals call it post-tenebras rock. my sister used to play for several all-girl bands. it sounds like a bastard child of tom waits, early goth and late 90's scandinavian death metal. borne out of university kids, it is sometimes too intelligent for its own good, that you'd think of it as a middle-class high-falluting faux-punk with byron poetry. the best part (as if it's an unwritten manifesto of sorts) they rarely record. more of a local consumption like a pub-brewery.
sweet. when i win the plottery or get promoted to the stratusphere, i'll make sure to visit ye up north. so that day will roughly be over 10 years from now, haha.
lollers. yes, it's always on some top-something list. have you seen his piano-painting sessions with björk? it's so turn-of-the-last-century surreal even in a home video that you'd think erik satie would just pop-up from nowhere. i was just discussing what's below with harley quinn in twitter last week. some chavette dancing to daft punk. lol.
ang hirap ngang i-memorize ng lyrics e 
