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vividcon, I vidded "Girl Anachronism" by The Dresden Dolls. I had two versions of the song. I liked one version better, but I ended up vidding the other version because it was less commercial, more interesting. Similarly, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
permetaform once gave me a version of Tori Amos' "Cornflake Girl" that was again less commercial and more interesting than the version I had, and again, I liked it less.
And then I paused to wonder why, because usually I don't like overly commercial music and then I realized that with the more commercial version of "Girl Anachronism" there's this really delightful drum section that I just adore where the beat sounds like it's stumbling. Similarly with the Tori song, while the voice is far more interesting, the background is more spare. The beathwhore in me is saying, "drums pretty!" but the vidder in me knows that interesting drum beats do not have the emotional resonance of interesting vocal experimentations (with the exception of bands that use drums like vocals, but we'll discuss VAST later).
Which is to say that Dresden Dolls are all about the voice and Tori Amos is all about her piano and so only in more commercial versions of their songs, it seems, do you get more interesting things with drums going on, perhaps because it makes the songs more danceable? (not that either version of "Girl Anachronism" is particularly danceable -- maybe it's just an industry thing) and the voice and the piano become more normalized respectively.
It's weird. A lot of people commented that "Girl Anachronism" wasn't the kind of music they'd usually listen to. It's weird because I don't actually like the song that much at all. It hits none of my musical kinks. It hits a ton of my vidding kinks. My Gia vid is my favorite vid that I've ever made, but I would never burn the song to a CD and listen to it (yes, I'm the last person on earth who still doesn't have an iPod and doesn't want one either).
The last good vid I made, I think, that actually hit all my musical kinks was my Oz vid to "Pretty When You Cry" by VAST. In that case, of course, the things I liked about the song also happened to be what made the song emotionally resonant. VAST lyrics leave much to be desired, but their beats are OMGsex. I have a story, actually, wherein after I heard "Pretty When You Cry" I downloaded a ton of VAST songs, dumped them on a playlist, went to sleep, and woke half an hour in a cold sweat, my heart beating a mile a minute as "Here" started playing. I still want to have that song's little vid babies. "You Know You're Right" would be my favorite song in the world if only Kurt Cobain would shut the hell up for the last minute and a half of overly repititous screaming angst.
I've recently got on a Stevie Wonder kick. He does fabulous things with beat and instrumentals and it's a case where my musical and vidding tastes don't clash so much as combine in horrible, Lord King Bad Vid type ways. Because one of my major vidding kinks is mindfuck irony. And I'm thinking making highly, highly blasphemous Stevie Wonder vids would be a rilly, rilly bad idea.
In other news...
It is moving day.adrienne2 has moved into a single room, and my new roomate is from England, and coincidentally, also fannish, though not in an online fan community way. She is a big Trek and Farscape fan. I'm going to try to introduce her to the fannish beauty that is SGA. She's probably not into slash at all, though, from what I can tell, so I'm kind of at a loss as to what merits I'm trying to pimp her the show on. I don't know if Ronon is her type.
Right, then. I have a Ronon, Weir, Ronon/Weir, Teyla, Ronon&Teyla meta post to write.
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vividcon, I vidded "Girl Anachronism" by The Dresden Dolls. I had two versions of the song. I liked one version better, but I ended up vidding the other version because it was less commercial, more interesting. Similarly, permetaform once gave me a version of Tori Amos' "Cornflake Girl" that was again less commercial and more interesting than the version I had, and again, I liked it less.And then I paused to wonder why, because usually I don't like overly commercial music and then I realized that with the more commercial version of "Girl Anachronism" there's this really delightful drum section that I just adore where the beat sounds like it's stumbling. Similarly with the Tori song, while the voice is far more interesting, the background is more spare. The beathwhore in me is saying, "drums pretty!" but the vidder in me knows that interesting drum beats do not have the emotional resonance of interesting vocal experimentations (with the exception of bands that use drums like vocals, but we'll discuss VAST later).
Which is to say that Dresden Dolls are all about the voice and Tori Amos is all about her piano and so only in more commercial versions of their songs, it seems, do you get more interesting things with drums going on, perhaps because it makes the songs more danceable? (not that either version of "Girl Anachronism" is particularly danceable -- maybe it's just an industry thing) and the voice and the piano become more normalized respectively.
It's weird. A lot of people commented that "Girl Anachronism" wasn't the kind of music they'd usually listen to. It's weird because I don't actually like the song that much at all. It hits none of my musical kinks. It hits a ton of my vidding kinks. My Gia vid is my favorite vid that I've ever made, but I would never burn the song to a CD and listen to it (yes, I'm the last person on earth who still doesn't have an iPod and doesn't want one either).
The last good vid I made, I think, that actually hit all my musical kinks was my Oz vid to "Pretty When You Cry" by VAST. In that case, of course, the things I liked about the song also happened to be what made the song emotionally resonant. VAST lyrics leave much to be desired, but their beats are OMGsex. I have a story, actually, wherein after I heard "Pretty When You Cry" I downloaded a ton of VAST songs, dumped them on a playlist, went to sleep, and woke half an hour in a cold sweat, my heart beating a mile a minute as "Here" started playing. I still want to have that song's little vid babies. "You Know You're Right" would be my favorite song in the world if only Kurt Cobain would shut the hell up for the last minute and a half of overly repititous screaming angst.
I've recently got on a Stevie Wonder kick. He does fabulous things with beat and instrumentals and it's a case where my musical and vidding tastes don't clash so much as combine in horrible, Lord King Bad Vid type ways. Because one of my major vidding kinks is mindfuck irony. And I'm thinking making highly, highly blasphemous Stevie Wonder vids would be a rilly, rilly bad idea.
In other news...
It is moving day.
adrienne2 has moved into a single room, and my new roomate is from England, and coincidentally, also fannish, though not in an online fan community way. She is a big Trek and Farscape fan. I'm going to try to introduce her to the fannish beauty that is SGA. She's probably not into slash at all, though, from what I can tell, so I'm kind of at a loss as to what merits I'm trying to pimp her the show on. I don't know if Ronon is her type.Right, then. I have a Ronon, Weir, Ronon/Weir, Teyla, Ronon&Teyla meta post to write.
