Saturday, 2 April 2011
This is a great music video
I've got nothing against the star of this video. I really don't know her or her music though I saw Hole do an amazing show on the 'doll parts' tour.. This is a little video about dissipation and the death of belief. She made a document of her own dissolution. Like the photo of a ghost. Characters like this always exist in the twilight. The queen drifts through the room and her minions remind her of her dread duties. A guitarist gets her to rehearse, another disappears into his cell. As if it was hard to breathe in the room. She sings the song indolent and bored as some minion films. Like songs can't touch her. She puts her make up on and sings 'Look me in the eyes and tell me that I'm satisfied'. Beyond all care. The death dance of vanity must continue because otherwise it falls apart. Beyond irony. Beyond it all, fixed in the amber of her importance. Like leaves rustling in the chamber of a mausoleum. Another show to give, another appearance to make, yawn.
Ha. Made my day.
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Wow. So sadly beautiful, in a ghastly kind of way. If the Replacements had've made a video for this song in 1984, this would've been it. Maybe it is, just now unearthed. And sure, the guy can play the guitar part much better than Westerberg probably can, which somehow makes it all the more insipid. Beyond irony indeed.
You know, it was actually a comment Courtney made in a music magazine that turned me onto the Replacements in the first place and Let It Be in particular.
She kinda comes across like she still has that 'little girl listening to records in her room' aspect of her personality so tangibly in-tact.
I'll always love her for being her. No matter how she sings...
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