On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Brad Beam <[email protected]> wrote:
> Getting involved in this thread, I feel compelled to answer. However, > dance is not my area of the arts, so I’m not able to fully critique. > > > > It does seem that Sia’s video style – at least for this album – is to > have a surrogate lead character dancing to a broad summary of the lyrics. > The choreography is thus more literal than simply dancing to the beat or > vamping to the camera. I don’t know if you’d classify her style as > (post)modern dance or just ballet. > > > > Whatever it is, it’s different and unfamiliar, and is not often seen as a > stylistic choice for a pop-music video. As a result, high-brow culture > meets mass media, and nobody knows what to make of the other. > > > > Hopefully, this made things a little less vague. (And if it makes you feel > better, I got weirded out trying to determine whether the Shia surrogate > on “SNL” was male or not.) > I appreciate this. I have been known to attend a ballet or two, though I admit to not being expert in that area. I guess in these terms, my critique of Sia is not so much that she is mixing high and low culture (which could be interesting) but that she is mixing pop culture with a bad imitation of high culture. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
