songs I want to hear vidded
(. . . so, you all gave me 800 amazing prompts the other day, and rather than quickly turning out a bunch of cute little ficlets, I now have like six Troy/Abed kink fics on the go. Is it just me or would Abed take to that sort of script-dependent bdsm in the most natural and adorable of ways?)
(also, I've been watching Community a lot lately. I love it quite a bit. Like, rather overwhelmingly a lot. also Donald Glover is too amazing for me to even be able to deal with it.)
The actual content of this post is Songs I Want to Hear Vidded, which I am posting because every now and then
eruthros and I have this conversation where we talk about genres of music that we don't see in vid fandom(s) anywhere, or don't see much of. Classical music, and jazz, and blues, and opera, and classic R&B, and Sondheim musicals, and oldschool country, and weird avant-garde shit, and on and on and that's just staying within the mostly-Western music with which we're familiar. This conversation always starts out with perfectly reasonable statements like "why are there no/so few Mozart vids? Why don't I vid to The Platters?" and ends up with me deciding I should make a vid to a youtube video called 'beatboxing flute super mario theme' and
eruthros trying to find her techno remixes of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
But the point is, doesn't it sadden you sometimes that vidding fandom, around these parts anyway, tends to fall into relatively contemporary rock/indie music/hip-hop/ballads most of the time? Myself included, of course; most of my vids fall into that category. I mean, it makes sense to vid ballads and hip-hop and such because they tend to be so lyric-heavy and lyric-dependent, but on the other hand this does not explain why no one has yet made a Doctor Who vid to Lefty Frizzell's "If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time."
(okay, that last bit is also evident of my conviction that oldschool American country is the ideal musical genre for Doctor Who. it's true you guys. get used to it.)
Wouldn't it be interesting to see more vids that vastly exceed the 3-minute mark, or do more stuff with the kinds of theme-building you see in jazz and classical music? It's funny,
luminosity did Scooby Road all those years ago (a series of Buffy vids to every song from Abbey Road), but since then I've never seen anyone do a similar concept-album type thing. But imagine taking, say, a four-part cello concerto and making it into a vid project; each part of the concerto would be a vid, and each vid could be a variation on the same theme, but with a very different mood/tempo. Stuff like that. Doesn't that sound fun and awesome? Every now and again you see a vid that breaks these rules, or even a challenge at a vidding community (like "instrumental" or "disney" or something) but not often. Maybe we should have a fest or something. People could submit Weird Shit That Might Make Interesting Vids and we could all try to vid to Alice's Restaurant and Der Holle Rache for a while.
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(also, I've been watching Community a lot lately. I love it quite a bit. Like, rather overwhelmingly a lot. also Donald Glover is too amazing for me to even be able to deal with it.)
The actual content of this post is Songs I Want to Hear Vidded, which I am posting because every now and then
eruthros and I have this conversation where we talk about genres of music that we don't see in vid fandom(s) anywhere, or don't see much of. Classical music, and jazz, and blues, and opera, and classic R&B, and Sondheim musicals, and oldschool country, and weird avant-garde shit, and on and on and that's just staying within the mostly-Western music with which we're familiar. This conversation always starts out with perfectly reasonable statements like "why are there no/so few Mozart vids? Why don't I vid to The Platters?" and ends up with me deciding I should make a vid to a youtube video called 'beatboxing flute super mario theme' and
eruthros trying to find her techno remixes of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
But the point is, doesn't it sadden you sometimes that vidding fandom, around these parts anyway, tends to fall into relatively contemporary rock/indie music/hip-hop/ballads most of the time? Myself included, of course; most of my vids fall into that category. I mean, it makes sense to vid ballads and hip-hop and such because they tend to be so lyric-heavy and lyric-dependent, but on the other hand this does not explain why no one has yet made a Doctor Who vid to Lefty Frizzell's "If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time."
(okay, that last bit is also evident of my conviction that oldschool American country is the ideal musical genre for Doctor Who. it's true you guys. get used to it.)
Wouldn't it be interesting to see more vids that vastly exceed the 3-minute mark, or do more stuff with the kinds of theme-building you see in jazz and classical music? It's funny,
luminosity did Scooby Road all those years ago (a series of Buffy vids to every song from Abbey Road), but since then I've never seen anyone do a similar concept-album type thing. But imagine taking, say, a four-part cello concerto and making it into a vid project; each part of the concerto would be a vid, and each vid could be a variation on the same theme, but with a very different mood/tempo. Stuff like that. Doesn't that sound fun and awesome? Every now and again you see a vid that breaks these rules, or even a challenge at a vidding community (like "instrumental" or "disney" or something) but not often. Maybe we should have a fest or something. People could submit Weird Shit That Might Make Interesting Vids and we could all try to vid to Alice's Restaurant and Der Holle Rache for a while.
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