Post XIII: First Music Video

The first music video that I can remember seeing was “Bye bye bye” by NSync. I remember that my family had just gotten cable television because we had just moved into an apartment in town. We used to live in the country and we only got about five different channels. Then we moved and lived in town, and my family bought cable for our TV. I remember that my aunt was babysitting me that day and was watching television so I came out of my room to see what she was watching because I was bored. I don’t know why I remember this, but I remember that she was watching a countdown of the top ten music videos of the week, and I had just heard “Bye bye bye” on the radio so I told her that I thought that the number one music video would be that song. She disagreed with me and said that it had been out too long so it wouldn’t be that one. While we were talking the television was playing commercials. The number one video was coming right up after the commercials. So I remember that we both sat there and finally the commercials were over and the announcers on the television began to introduce the number one song and to my aunt’s chagrin and to my delight, the number one video was “Bye bye bye” by NSync. I felt great after that. From what I can recall, I gave my aunt a pretty rough time about it. I kept reminding her that I was right about the number one video and she was wrong. I kept saying, “shouldn’t you have been right, not me?” After a while she got fed up with me and just told me to shut up. So I did. Because even though I was right, she was babysitting me. And I wanted a snack.

Post XII: Least Favorite Music Video

It is kind of hard to completely determine what my least favorite music video is, but after much thought I would probably have to say the Feel Good Inc music video by the Gorillaz. I did not really want to have to choose that video because I actually like the song. But I just could not help myself. Something about that video drives me completely insane. I believe that it is the fact that it is animated the way that it is. Something about that animation really gets to me. I just do not like it at all. I never have particularly cared for animated music videos, but out of all the animated music videos that I have seen, Feel Good Inc by the Gorillaz is by far the worst of them all. I think that it must have something to do with the fact that the band that is playing in the video is a bunch of animated…things. They do not even look real. I understand that what they are supposed to be are gorillas, or gorillaz, but I really do not think that it is done in a clever or funny way. Hopefully they were not trying to make the video funny because in my mind it definitely was not. It drives me up a wall to see the animated, fake looking gorillas standing up there beating on their instruments. Personally, I like real things. I will admit, I am very practical and I like seeing things the way that they are supposed to be. I do not like stuff that is completely fake and unrealistic. It is just the way that I am. And the thing about this video is that I have tried to like it. Because like I already said, I like the song a lot, and so I wanted to at least make an attempt to like the music video. But I failed miserably. I can’t help it. It’s just too unreal for me.