Chapter 119: Cathartic Irony

“wtf!” The bald black man Madden covered his head with a shocked expression, and other people who watched the music video in front of the TV had the same expressions as him.

Mirren had the same expression, and even Judy's eyes widened with a look of hell.

"What song is this? What is this MV? ”

A big doubt rose in everyone's hearts, and then as if they were crossed by Jessica's blade, they turned out the name of the music video from their memories.

"Nothing in the Sky."

“omg! What the is this? Why do I find this song hard to listen to, but it's ...... But it's very brainwashing! Empty your eyes and turn everything over! ”

"yes, you're right, and that music video! Oh my God, it's violent! It's so cool! I feel like I'm going to with it! ”

"I've never seen such a violent picture! But why is blood green? why? ”

"It's crazy, I feel like this song is like this, and the director seems to be like this...... How did he come up with the idea of letting such a delicate beauty shoot a fight? But I have to admit that she had a good fight! ”

Everyone has a feeling of excitement in their hearts, and there is no lack of doubts, if there is one sentence to describe their feelings after watching the MV, that is, what kind of mental state did the director create the MV?

Thinking of this, Mirren came back to his senses and asked Duval, who was watching: "The director of this song is Don?" ”

"That's right!" Divar spread his hands.

"It's unbelievable that Don can make action movies! And it's so well shot! Mirren has come to understand why this song brings such a mixed emotional experience.

The main reason is that Raymond's accompaniment is too explosive, and his rap is too brainwashing, and when this MV is watched with the song, it will give people the illusion of a magic sound.

At the same time, he will sigh that this song does not seem to deserve such a music video, but when he finishes watching it, he wants to watch it again, even if it is a torture for him who does not listen to death metal music at all.

But it is precisely because of the pain and happiness that it makes people more entangled.

At this point, the people who had not yet returned to their senses felt the same way, and then the TV began to loop after the broadcast of the personnel list.

After reading it for the second time, Madden muttered: "Empty eyes, turn everything over." ”

Four-Eyed Pucci gestured back and forth with his hands like blades: "Kill, kill, kill!" Kill, kill, kill! ”

"Empty your eyes and turn everything over."

"Kill, kill, kill! Kill, kill, kill! ”

The two of them seem to have been completely brainwashed into the appearance of MV, crying and howling in front of the TV, embarrassing, and almost sweeping their noses with their fingers to incarnate Bruce Lee.

"So, are you going to buy this album?" Duvar turned his head to look at Mirren.

Mirren looked at Judy.

"I don't buy it, it's too bad...... And I don't like gore either. Judy wrinkled her nose and rejected Duval's offer.

But the next moment, she saw Mirren quickly turn around: "I'll buy it!" Three! ”

"Generous Crab! Boss! I buy it too! ”

"And me, leave me five! I'm going to play it at all kinds of parties! ”

"That's right, party! Slaughter! That's how it should be! I want two! ”

Judy was stunned to see the men waving the money excitedly, looking like they had to win the album, a little incomprehensible.

Even Pucci and Madden, who picked the door, took out the money to buy an album each, which is even more positive than them buying a photo, and there are many people in this situation like them.

After the release of the song "Eyes in the Sky", most of the girls' evaluations of this song were so bad that they exploded, and most of the boys' evaluations of this song were rotten, but not completely rotten.

The point is that the song is cool!

Whether listening or watching, they can vent their emotions hysterically in the explosion of music and large chromatic visuals.

Especially those things and people in life that are not pleasing to the eye, everyone has experienced and been aggrieved, but they can't vent in person. As a result, after seeing the MV of this song, without exception, everyone's unhappy emotions were vented with the footage of Jessica slashing people.

So much so that when Jessica's name became known to everyone, she was immediately praised by fans as the goddess of killing!

She has seen her name in the report a lot in the past few days, both in the music industry and Hollywood, mainly because The Hollywood Reporter recently published an article, which made the extremely bloody and violent picture in the MV quickly achieve the effect of breaking the circle, and it is well-known to Hollywood insiders.

"A new aesthetic of bloody violence! The contrast between the extreme color and the simple movements! ”

Generally speaking, any new style is born from cinema and then spreads to its side industries, where it is well known.

For example, John Woo's violent aesthetics, such as Hitchcock's thriller art, such as Stephen Chow's nonsensical style.

But this time it was different, when some Hollywood media people saw the style of this MV and looked for it in their previous works, they didn't find a movie with a similar style.

In the MV shot by Tang De, although there is Quentin's shadow, it is not completely based on Quentin, there is no bloody scene of him picking eyeballs and digging out his heart and lungs, but instead there are various bone percussion techniques.

Coupled with the extreme single color contrast, this feeling is more like a new direction after a mixture of various styles.

It is precisely because of this that it has attracted a small range of attention from Hollywood, and after the "Hollywood Reporter" published an article, more media began to pay attention to this MV and express their own views and opinions.

At the same time, the music scene has also been stirred up into a muddy water by this song, on the one hand, Tang De's new MV is really good enough, and on the other hand, the sound of this song is really bad enough.

Many music critics have said that the song and the music video cannot be put together, and should be looked at separately, and the production and style of the song itself are really unacceptable.

But if it's more radical, they can't scold it, because the singer Raymond is dead, or died unexpectedly and tragically, do they still have to set it up as a target and whip the corpse?

Even the tabloids can't do this kind of thing, so something weird happened, in all the newspapers, everyone only discussed the topic of MV, and no one seemed to care whether the song was good or not.

For example, Billboard Music was released, and the title of the review of this song was "The Name of Satra, the Work of Catharsis!" 》。

"If there was one of the most unexpected things about the start of 2003, it had to be MTV Award winner Don, who made a new music video that killed all the 'judges'. This is really crazy, there are many newspapers that Tang is the same as the title of this song, he is looking at everything, he is challenging the bottom line of all music critics and judges, and he is fluttering after winning the award, but it seems to me that it is more than that.

Because from the details of this music video, it can be seen that this is not a simple massacre of opponents and judges, but more of a satire of the current strange situation in the music scene: new singers are always accompanied by meaningless speculation and controversies.

"Why? Let's deconstruct the elements of the film one by one. The first, of course, was the awards stage, where a couple of clowns appeared, obviously talking about the critics. And as the curtain opens, we can see the black and oppressive courtroom, and Jessica standing on the trial bench.

What does this mean? On behalf of the so-called awards stage, what is shown to the public is a trial, which has departed from the original context of the awards, but has become a siege of the new generation. And those clowns turned into justices, but instead of wearing black robes, they wore red robes, which shows that their hearts only want to be red, and the truth of the trial is not important.

"Then came the trial, where Jessica was stripped of her clothes, and we can see that no one carried out this action, which means that the judges just finished it with their 'mouths', which is understandable, because various critics have completed the hunt for the new generation of new style singers with their mouths and articles.

Then came the play, breaking through the prison walls, and when Jessica arrived at the karate dojo, the group of judges were sitting on the ground, and in the center of the crowd there were various lists and portraits, like wanted lists. Those people represent their targets, and this indirectly proves what I said, which is a group of critics who make a living by satirizing the new generation of new styles.

"And then there's the hearty play, the killing. Those red-robed guys spewed out green blood, obviously, they weren't real people, they were just monsters. It wasn't until Jessica slaughtered these monsters, smashed their judgment seats, or arguably the platform they relied on to survive, and ruined this funny awards stage, that the whole music video came to an end.

"After watching the whole MV, although Raymond's singing voice is not pleasant to be honest, the combination of lyrics and MV is very good, even if it is full of all kinds of swear words and pornographic jokes that are not suitable for children. But this is the attitude of the new generation, just like Eminem, who has been suffering criticism since his debut, and in fact, criticizing him has even become a kind of correctness in the music world.

"Because some critics are very afraid, very afraid that this new form of song will subvert their own aesthetics, cognition and status. In order to protect the old order, they must desperately suppress the new style, until the new style becomes the choice of the public, and the new judges replace the old ones, and then carry out a new round of reincarnation.

"So I can give full marks to Don's MV, and as for this year's MTV Awards, to be honest, if I don't give this song, it's even more interesting, because it proves that it successfully satirizes everything."

After the article was published, Billboard Music magazine sales climbed, and music critics seemed to have found a new way to interpret the music video, so they came out of the game, satirizing the old critics who pretentiously looked down on everything.

And the readers are really supportive, but all the newspapers with such remarks have increased their sales, which makes them smile.

The singers in the music scene also expressed their support one by one, especially the rappers, Jay-Z, Nelly and others have expressed their evaluations of the song.

They unanimously did not comment on the song itself, only the lyrics and the MV, only Eminem expressed regret, saying that if Raymond had not died, they might have been able to collaborate on a song.

Of course, the kind written by Raymond and sung by Eminem.

Everyone is remembering Raymond, and those people even went to Raymond's tombstone again to pay their respects, and in a deep nostalgia for Raymond, only Dylan.

His lungs were about to explode!

(End of chapter)