Tuesday, September 2, 2008

hope for the funny-looking

Hello, Everybody: (AND - especially Boys in Bands)

This music video has given me hope.
"Natural Disaster" by Plain White T's.
To me - This is a "CLASSIC"-style music video.
-With dramatic lighting; a variety of attractive women; and a band frolicking/partying- and rocking out on stage. (pretending to perform their song.)
The thing that strikes me - is that: the lead singer of this band is pretty goofy / funny-looking. (with big; goofy ears and a big; flaring schnoz/nose.)
It gives me hope that a band - (with virtually only one big hit: "Hey There, Delilah")- gets to make a music video with all the trappings of rock and roll.
- Plain White T's are from a nearby suburb of Chicago, Villa Park,IL. (So, I've heard.) - this is another reason for hope.
-I'm a funny-looking guy from a Chicago suburb . . . Maybe I can make it too!

In the same way that "Country Music" makes obligatory and gratuitous use of these themes: pick-up trucks; drinking whisky and beer; overcoming life in small town/rural America, and thanking "the lord" - So too, rock music is guilty of it's use of hot babes/models; guys that appear to soon be "getting some" from said babes, and all the trappings of a cool rock band in a cool rock video. (You know? . . . all the smoke and mirrors)
The music business(as we used to know it) may be on it's way to extinction, but the last gasps have really brought it full circle.

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