Deb would swear at me

[gwyn_r]

Oh, vidding how I hate and love you. You torture me with your ideas and your songs and your characters. You provide endless hours of torment and aching necks and arms and the feeling of utter hopeless failure. And yet, you keep my mind off things I don't want to and shouldn't think about. And when you are done, I feel so relieved and so bad at the

Comments

[keerawa]

Vid the song that speaks to you. Who cares if it's popular? The first rule of creating art - if you don't like it, nothing else matters.

[liviapenn]

If it's such a popular song, maybe you could find a cover for it? Or even a remix or mashup? I love finding random covers of popular songs on mp3 blogs. (One awesome find was an overseas version of Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend," so all the stupid/annoying parts of the lyrics are in Japanese. *G*)

[kirbyfest]

If it's that powerful, do it. If you wait for something pristine, it'll never get done. (And seriously, finding a perfect song for Deb? That's tough. Don't pass it up.)

The one vid I may make someday is to an overvidded hack of a song. But if I can get enough technical skills to make it work, I'll do it anyway.

[anoel]

Do it! One because I'd love to see a Deb vid from you (or more in general) and two because, who cares? Do what you love and fuck the rest. Think of it this way, it'll be unexpected that YOU would use that kind of song. You already tried to find a substitue which gets past the whole songs are overused because people don't have a wide enough music selection process. You could wait til you have a song that does work but who knows when that will be. If you can't get it out of your head, just vid it to let that out. If you don't want to show it to anyone, that's fine too (please do though!). The song deserves a Great vid!

[keiko_kirin]

If it were me, and I went for a different song that wasn't as perfect, I'd spend the *entire* vid, and the *entire* lifecycle of the vid afterward, thinking, "but damn, that other song would have been perfect!" I couldn't do it.

I haven't not watched a vid because of song choice. I would rather have a vidder use a song that works for the vid and get me past whatever baggage I have about the song (genre, overviddedness, etc.) than have a vidder try to shoehorn a vid into a song that doesn't work.

And also? Who gives a damn about the thousands of crap vids on YouTube? Seriously. Anyone who would give you grief for using a song they'd already seen on YouTube -- is it someone whose opinion you would respect, anyway?