New Vid! Heh. Oh my, yes.
It's Friday! THANK. GOD. *prostrates* And if it's Friday, you know what that means!
I'll give you two hints: pretty to look at, starts with 's'.
That's right: STRIPPERS.
:D?
Pornstar Dancing
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Burn Notice, Carnivale, Community, Doctor Who, Dollhouse, Firefly, Merlin, Slings & Arrows, Smallville, Spartacus, Supernatural, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Vampire Diaries, Torchwood, White Collar
Music: My Darkest Days
Vid: Jayne L. (serrico)
Warnings: skin. Enough to be NSFW.
Format: .avi | 50MB
Download: right click, save as.
Streaming: YouTube.
Being a thoughtful, sensitive, and nuanced examination of gendered expressions and characterisations of desire. (Also known as: Let's Objectify Men.)
PORNSTAR DANCING by My Darkest Days feat. Chad Kroeger
Kelly won't kiss my friend Cassandra
Jessica won't play ball
Mandy won't share her friend Miranda
Doesn't anybody live at all
Amanda won't leave me empty-handed
Got her number from a bathroom stall
Brandy just got way too much baggage
And that shit just gets old
But I got a girl who can put on a show
The dollar decides how far it can go
She wraps those hands around that pole
She licks those lips and off we go
She takes it off nice and slow
'Cause that's pornstar dancing
She don't play nice, she makes me beg
She drops that dress around her legs
And I'm sitting right by the stage
For this pornstar dancing
Your body's lighting up the room
I want a naughty girl like you
There's nothing harder to do
Stacy's gonna save herself for marriage
But that's just not my style
She's got a pair that's nice to stare at
But I want girls gone wild
I know a place where there's always a show
The dollar decides how far it can go
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[Chorus]
The first time I heard this song, my immediate reaction was, "Is this thing ever crying out for a genderbend." It was a flippant reaction, and as soon as the song was over, I thought no more about it. But then, through the bedrock-reliability of the local rock station's overnight "shuffle", I heard the damn thing at least once a night every work night for months; over time, the flippant reaction became the germ of an idea, which in turn became an evil chortle, and a couple weeks ago, I knew I had to make the attempt.
To be clear: I think this song, while catchy, is lyrically godawful. Because I like to try to think reasonably well of people until they prove me wrong, I choose to believe that the guys of My Darkest Days wrote so baldly about Brandy's baggage and Stacy's *wince* pair because they were at least partially intent on being satirical. Satire was certainly my intent with this vid, so I hope, if they or any of their people ever come across it, they'll respond to my artistic endeavour with the same generosity of spirit I did theirs.
*cough* *beam*
Random things:
--When it comes to male shirtlessness, Smallville is generous to a fault. Like, I'm pretty sure I could've made the entire vid just with SV footage; as it is, I made a conscious decision to focus only on Clark, and even then I had to restrain myself from using him as an automatic go-to whenever I got stuck for beefcake, because there are just so many skin shots to work with.
--For all that I'm never able to respond to White Collar with anything but guttural noises and drool, I feel dirty for putting Neal in this thing. He's just so classy.
--I'm not going to get into the Serious Thoughts that actually went into certain parts of this, because part of the reason I made the vid at all was because I thought a vid was the best delivery system for what I wanted to say about this song. (This vid is unique for me, in that I made it primarily to comment on the song. Usually, when I vid, I start with something I want to explore in the visual source's narrative, and find a song to fit; this time, I started with the song--specifically, with my particular response to the song, ie my kneejerk "What if these lyrics were applied to men?" need to goose-and-gander the thing--and sought out the clips that fit the lyrics.) I will say three things, though:
1) As coincidentally fortuitous as "Cassandra" and "Jessica" were, "Brandy" was a very deliberate pairing of character and lyric.
2) I didn't intend to use the "pornstar dancers" as direct metaphors for certain characters in certain culturally-significant mythologies. That...kinda just happened. And in the kinda-just-happening, it supported a theme of male power in relation to sexual objectification that I thought worked well, so I kept it. It was a happy accident! *g*
3) Imagine for a moment, if you will, a vid that played this song straight.
...yeah.
--In making this vid, I've broken one of the cardinal rules of my life, to whit, that I should never do anything that might, conceivably, in some insignificant manner, contribute to the success of Chad Kroeger's career. I take small comfort in the fact that, although I did obtain this song legally, it was a free download, so I still haven't actually given the man a cent of money.
...small comfort. Small comfort. *cling*
This content is also available at http://serrico.dreamwidth.org/692689.html. Comment here or there, whichever you prefer. (Over there, there are
comments.)
I'll give you two hints: pretty to look at, starts with 's'.
That's right: STRIPPERS.
:D?
Pornstar Dancing
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Burn Notice, Carnivale, Community, Doctor Who, Dollhouse, Firefly, Merlin, Slings & Arrows, Smallville, Spartacus, Supernatural, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Vampire Diaries, Torchwood, White Collar
Music: My Darkest Days
Vid: Jayne L. (serrico)
Warnings: skin. Enough to be NSFW.
Format: .avi | 50MB
Download: right click, save as.
Streaming: YouTube.
Being a thoughtful, sensitive, and nuanced examination of gendered expressions and characterisations of desire. (Also known as: Let's Objectify Men.)
PORNSTAR DANCING by My Darkest Days feat. Chad Kroeger
Kelly won't kiss my friend Cassandra
Jessica won't play ball
Mandy won't share her friend Miranda
Doesn't anybody live at all
Amanda won't leave me empty-handed
Got her number from a bathroom stall
Brandy just got way too much baggage
And that shit just gets old
But I got a girl who can put on a show
The dollar decides how far it can go
She wraps those hands around that pole
She licks those lips and off we go
She takes it off nice and slow
'Cause that's pornstar dancing
She don't play nice, she makes me beg
She drops that dress around her legs
And I'm sitting right by the stage
For this pornstar dancing
Your body's lighting up the room
I want a naughty girl like you
There's nothing harder to do
Stacy's gonna save herself for marriage
But that's just not my style
She's got a pair that's nice to stare at
But I want girls gone wild
I know a place where there's always a show
The dollar decides how far it can go
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[Chorus]
The first time I heard this song, my immediate reaction was, "Is this thing ever crying out for a genderbend." It was a flippant reaction, and as soon as the song was over, I thought no more about it. But then, through the bedrock-reliability of the local rock station's overnight "shuffle", I heard the damn thing at least once a night every work night for months; over time, the flippant reaction became the germ of an idea, which in turn became an evil chortle, and a couple weeks ago, I knew I had to make the attempt.
To be clear: I think this song, while catchy, is lyrically godawful. Because I like to try to think reasonably well of people until they prove me wrong, I choose to believe that the guys of My Darkest Days wrote so baldly about Brandy's baggage and Stacy's *wince* pair because they were at least partially intent on being satirical. Satire was certainly my intent with this vid, so I hope, if they or any of their people ever come across it, they'll respond to my artistic endeavour with the same generosity of spirit I did theirs.
*cough* *beam*
Random things:
--When it comes to male shirtlessness, Smallville is generous to a fault. Like, I'm pretty sure I could've made the entire vid just with SV footage; as it is, I made a conscious decision to focus only on Clark, and even then I had to restrain myself from using him as an automatic go-to whenever I got stuck for beefcake, because there are just so many skin shots to work with.
--For all that I'm never able to respond to White Collar with anything but guttural noises and drool, I feel dirty for putting Neal in this thing. He's just so classy.
--I'm not going to get into the Serious Thoughts that actually went into certain parts of this, because part of the reason I made the vid at all was because I thought a vid was the best delivery system for what I wanted to say about this song. (This vid is unique for me, in that I made it primarily to comment on the song. Usually, when I vid, I start with something I want to explore in the visual source's narrative, and find a song to fit; this time, I started with the song--specifically, with my particular response to the song, ie my kneejerk "What if these lyrics were applied to men?" need to goose-and-gander the thing--and sought out the clips that fit the lyrics.) I will say three things, though:
1) As coincidentally fortuitous as "Cassandra" and "Jessica" were, "Brandy" was a very deliberate pairing of character and lyric.
2) I didn't intend to use the "pornstar dancers" as direct metaphors for certain characters in certain culturally-significant mythologies. That...kinda just happened. And in the kinda-just-happening, it supported a theme of male power in relation to sexual objectification that I thought worked well, so I kept it. It was a happy accident! *g*
3) Imagine for a moment, if you will, a vid that played this song straight.
...yeah.
--In making this vid, I've broken one of the cardinal rules of my life, to whit, that I should never do anything that might, conceivably, in some insignificant manner, contribute to the success of Chad Kroeger's career. I take small comfort in the fact that, although I did obtain this song legally, it was a free download, so I still haven't actually given the man a cent of money.
...small comfort. Small comfort. *cling*
This content is also available at http://serrico.dreamwidth.org/692689.html. Comment here or there, whichever you prefer. (Over there, there are
comments.)