I’m all for simple today, folks. I’ve got choir practice this evening and spent a lot of energy writing about boys yesterday.
I also have a list of texts I want to write about, but need to see first. I want to discuss Juliette Lewis covering PJ Harvey songs in Katheryn Bigelow’s Strange Days and L7′s appearance in John Waters’s Serial Mom, but I haven’t seen either movie yet. Gilmore Girls‘ resident music geek Lane Kim will assuredly get an entry, but I’m wrapping up season two and have five more 22-episode seasons to go. And if that damn St. Vincent/Thunderant clip I heard about back in September would ever come to light, we’d be in business. Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar and Alex Steyermark’s Prey for Rock N’ Roll are waiting for me at home, so maybe they’ll generate some fodder.
But let’s keep it simple for now. And since I’ve been prepping my GRE vocabulary lately, let’s keep it austere — meaning ascetic, severely simple, unadorned, bare. Let’s look at two recent music videos from The xx and Fever Ray and consider how the visuals compliment the music. Enjoy!
The xx
“VCR”
xx
Directed by Marcus Söderlund
Fever Ray
“Keep the Streets Empty for Me”
Fever Ray
Directed by Jens Klevje and Fabian Svensson
