there's a hole in my neighbourhood down which of late I cannot help but fall
My dreadfully important thoughts on the Telephone video:
1. I generally hate music videos that keep stopping for talky bits. Especially as the talky bits are usually shit. I mostly forgive Telephone because it's hugely entertaining (unlike... remember the Boulevard for Broken Dreams video? With Jamie Bell? That was SO BAD and went on FOREVER, and I don't even like that song very much so it was just tedium all round) but I'm pretty sure I'll never like it as much as the Bad Romance video. Mostly I just love the actual song and wish it was more prominent, but I suppose that's what the album's for.
2. The dancey bit in the diner: SO AMAZING.
3. I'm pretty sure I ship Gaga and Beyonce in this like mad. I am not ashamed.
4. People on ONTD are claiming that the excessive product placement was meant to make fun of product placement in general. This would perhaps work if it weren't real brands they're flaunting, imo.
5. Can I go to sexy prison?
Also it reminded me that I should give Kill Bill another shot. I saw a bit of it on TV once, but it was ridiculously censored (lol "party wagon") and my mother kept coming in, and anyway the talk-to-action ratio was ALL WRONG. I like my Tarantino talky. But I ought to see the whole thing anyway.
Meanwhile, I am still slightly in love with Craig Ferguson. Honestly it's not like he's the best comedian in the world, he's just one of the ones who seems like an genuinely lovely person, and comes across as remarkably honest, and that is fairly rare. And I like that a lot of his thing on his show is cracks about how his show is a bit shit (although I do love the stupid thing to bits). Mostly I mention this because I was messing around on YouTube earlier and found some of his old stand-up and it's... strange. The 80s stuff especially just makes me feel weird and uncomfortable, because he was still drinking at the time (so he probably doesn't remember it) and it's just... you can tell he's having a shit time, compared to his stuff now.
ALSO he used to be a proper Glaswegian! Which, you know, I assumed, but it's fucking weird to hear! Obviously I could tell that his accent was waaaay watered down from being in America, but you don't really realise the extent of it when there's nothing to compare it with. What's really peculiar is watching this interview with Shirley Manson he did a few years back (which is lovely, incidentally) and comparing their accents.
Somewhat relatedly, my Parisian neighbour's accent keeps weirding me out, I'm only used to hearing Canadian French in real life. She sounds like a film.
1. I generally hate music videos that keep stopping for talky bits. Especially as the talky bits are usually shit. I mostly forgive Telephone because it's hugely entertaining (unlike... remember the Boulevard for Broken Dreams video? With Jamie Bell? That was SO BAD and went on FOREVER, and I don't even like that song very much so it was just tedium all round) but I'm pretty sure I'll never like it as much as the Bad Romance video. Mostly I just love the actual song and wish it was more prominent, but I suppose that's what the album's for.
2. The dancey bit in the diner: SO AMAZING.
3. I'm pretty sure I ship Gaga and Beyonce in this like mad. I am not ashamed.
4. People on ONTD are claiming that the excessive product placement was meant to make fun of product placement in general. This would perhaps work if it weren't real brands they're flaunting, imo.
5. Can I go to sexy prison?
Also it reminded me that I should give Kill Bill another shot. I saw a bit of it on TV once, but it was ridiculously censored (lol "party wagon") and my mother kept coming in, and anyway the talk-to-action ratio was ALL WRONG. I like my Tarantino talky. But I ought to see the whole thing anyway.
Meanwhile, I am still slightly in love with Craig Ferguson. Honestly it's not like he's the best comedian in the world, he's just one of the ones who seems like an genuinely lovely person, and comes across as remarkably honest, and that is fairly rare. And I like that a lot of his thing on his show is cracks about how his show is a bit shit (although I do love the stupid thing to bits). Mostly I mention this because I was messing around on YouTube earlier and found some of his old stand-up and it's... strange. The 80s stuff especially just makes me feel weird and uncomfortable, because he was still drinking at the time (so he probably doesn't remember it) and it's just... you can tell he's having a shit time, compared to his stuff now.
ALSO he used to be a proper Glaswegian! Which, you know, I assumed, but it's fucking weird to hear! Obviously I could tell that his accent was waaaay watered down from being in America, but you don't really realise the extent of it when there's nothing to compare it with. What's really peculiar is watching this interview with Shirley Manson he did a few years back (which is lovely, incidentally) and comparing their accents.
Somewhat relatedly, my Parisian neighbour's accent keeps weirding me out, I'm only used to hearing Canadian French in real life. She sounds like a film.