VID: There'll Always Be Closing Night (Supernatural, PG-13, Gen) + Links

[heidi8]

One thing I've picked up in vidding over the last year or so is that inspiration comes from the oddest places. I'd been sorting through my itunes, looking for songs about doom and tragedy and loss, and I remembered to songs that have extremely perky, fun tunes - but which are angsty in their lyrical cores. One is "Hell" from the Squirrel Nut

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[ddionisio691]

Thanks so much!

[curtainpull]

Love it. Nice and jaunty. DEAN!

[heidi8]

Thank you! And yeah! Dean!

[ash48]

Wow - that really works!! When the song started I just couldn't see how this was going to play out - but I LOVE the upbeat nature of the song and the way it totally contrasts the lyrics and the clips.

I works so well because, we know the angst is there and we know how the boys story plays out and yet the nature of the music almost plays against that! (Man, does that make any sense!?)

This is refreshing as a finale vid. The song is unexpected but still has the gut-wrenching angst seeping though. I just LOVE the way that works!

AWESOME vid in other words!

PS: thanks for the rec! :)

[heidi8]

I works so well because, we know the angst is there and we know how the boys story plays out and yet the nature of the music almost plays against that! (Man, does that make any sense!?)

It does, and thank you so much for taking that from this! It is what I was going for - just a huge pile of subtext and text and the differentiation between melody and lyrics and images that (I hope!) make it larger than the sum of the parts. It's angst, but it's jaunty and optimistic and misery and hope and oh, boys all in one.

Thanks for sticking through it!

[cho_malfoy]

Wow, I enjoyed that. I think the cheerful music balanced the very depressing clips, so yay! :)

[heidi8]

A study in contrasts, right?

And thank you so much!

[pheebs1]

Lovely vid. I love how the melody sounds like a cabaret song, as if it belongs in a show, but yet the lyrics and feel to the vid contrast that, as you say, as Dean contrasts the situation with jokes. I like how when the song is cutty in one place, you mirror that with quick cuts on Dean. Lovely!

[heidi8]

Thank you so much for your insights! That's exactly what I was going for, and I'm so glad it worked for you!