Dirty Projector's CD Bitte Orca was decent, maybe a little too ambitious for its own good, but still decent. You'd think that in their first music video with a budget, the band would: A. Pick a song that could work in a video, such as No Intention or B. At least add some high concept imagery to fit their high concept music; instead, the band decided that close singing shots followed by bad, TLC-style dancing and weird animal shots would be the way to go. This year has been a terrific year for music videos by lesser known bands: Fiest, Grizzly Bear, Matt & Kim, Camera Obscura, Bat for Lashes, and hell, even Phoenix seem to have had no issue in the transition to music video. I could list a ton of things that are wrong with it, first of which would be that it gives the impression that Dirty Projectors are a girl-group, which they aren't. it's typical for a band like Dirty Projectors to try something different than the "Band playing song montage", but sometimes that can work just fine, like in this Camera Obscura video for "Let's Get Out of this Country". But then again, with the type of music Dirty Projectors makes along with this video, maybe they just want to stay Indie forever and never sell any records.
Dirty Projector's CD Bitte Orca was decent, maybe a little too ambitious for its own good, but still decent. You'd think that in their first music video with a budget, the band would: A. Pick a song that could work in a video, such as No Intention or B. At least add some high concept imagery to fit their high concept music; instead, the band decided that close singing shots followed by bad, TLC-style dancing and weird animal shots would be the way to go. This year has been a terrific year for music videos by lesser known bands: Fiest, Grizzly Bear, Matt & Kim, Camera Obscura, Bat for Lashes, and hell, even Phoenix seem to have had no issue in the transition to music video. I could list a ton of things that are wrong with it, first of which would be that it gives the impression that Dirty Projectors are a girl-group, which they aren't. it's typical for a band like Dirty Projectors to try something different than the "Band playing song montage", but sometimes that can work just fine, like in this Camera Obscura video for "Let's Get Out of this Country". But then again, with the type of music Dirty Projectors makes along with this video, maybe they just want to stay Indie forever and never sell any records.
Fantastic location. Too bad the video's not great. It's well shot, it's just not very interesting as a whole. Also, what the fuck is up with the last shot. The fucking alpaca goes the wrong way, so the dude leading it has to jerk it back in the right direction, and then one of the chicks totally stumbles. DO ANOTHER TAKE ASSHOLE!!! That's just obviously bad. It makes the filmmakers look like amateurs, which is unfortunate since it appears that most of the crew knew what they were doing, just not the man in charge.
In this video, the band had to travel a long ways to make it. Unfortunately, the band had forgotten the drumset. So notice the drummer through to video:
@lilburtonboy7489: That's not so bad. I once forgot the camera for a shoot. We got a backup, but as punishment the director made me get hit by a car. The worst part: we weren't even rolling on the best take... and it hurt.
Holy shit. I never actually saw the video before, even though I like the album for the most part, but wow. It's actually rather embarrassing to watch. @lilburtonboy7489:
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