When the actual music is good enough to buy/listen to (like classical music), then you don’t need all the cool dancing to get into it.Įven in the world of pop music, check out the difference between a Celine Dion video and a Janet Jackson video some day. That Anna Netrebko video is terrible! Great bathing suit, but way too boring and the lip syncing was even terrible – unless sopranos really can hit those notes lounging in a tacky plastic floating bed! The second video kind of looks like a musical interlude from either Lord of the Rings or Brideshead Revisited.Ī lot of the time, pop music can’t sell itself just based on its own musical merits, hence videos. The cinematography is gorgeous, and the filming tasteful. The most successful one I have found is this one, of the golden-throated British tenor Ian Bostridge singing Ralph Vaughan Williams’ beautiful song “Silent Noon”. (Duration: 5 minutes)Īdmittedly, they are not all that bad. Here’s a good example of a failed effort: the talented (and awfully pretty) soprano Anna Netrebko sings Dvorak’s “Song to the Moon”, from Rusalka. The artificiality of the idiom simply becomes too evident. Videos for pop music are bad enough things become really ridiculous on those rare occasions when classical artists try to make them. I have watched a number of them, and I am hard pressed to name a single one that really enhances the song (well, perhaps there is one). Silliness is not necessarily a bad thing - plenty of silly things are also great fun and worthwhile - but I admit I find the popularity of music videos baffling. Grown men stand around lip-syncing to their own songs and mugging for the camera. A couple of weeks ago I posted a music video, and I alluded to my belief that music videos have about them an inherent silliness.
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