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Oct. 1st, 2022 05:03 pmGiven my age, I should have spent my adolescence watching MTV, but for a number of reasons that’s not what happened. ‘80s rock is sort of a background substrate in my memories, but I didn’t deliberately listen to any of it until relatively recently.
So skipping semi-randomly through YouTube videos is a weirdly amusing pastime when I’m in the right mood, evoking wisps of nostalgia here and there through sheer exposure. The music video as an art form is not something I’m terribly familiar with.
That said, the Blondie video of “Heart of Glass” could not look more uncomfortable if they tried. It’s like nobody knows what they’re doing, and they have zero enthusiasm for it. It’s downright comical, but I don’t think that’s what they were going for...
So skipping semi-randomly through YouTube videos is a weirdly amusing pastime when I’m in the right mood, evoking wisps of nostalgia here and there through sheer exposure. The music video as an art form is not something I’m terribly familiar with.
That said, the Blondie video of “Heart of Glass” could not look more uncomfortable if they tried. It’s like nobody knows what they’re doing, and they have zero enthusiasm for it. It’s downright comical, but I don’t think that’s what they were going for...