At this point, this thread reminds me of my college years, hosting a music video show for the college TV station, and catching flack for stating that if one were to judge an artist's mental state by his/her videos, then Bjork was crazier than Charles Manson. It didn't matter that I prefaced my comment by saying I was (and still am) a fan of Bjork. If you ever want to find out if anybody is paying attention to you, comment about somebody eccentric, and their fanbase will emerge from the shadows.
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:39 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- 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.
