New Winehouse vid
The 'gum has David LaChapelle's new video for Amy Winehouse's "Tears Dry on Their Own."
This video is BOR-ING. I expected so much more. I think this song might be more favorite to me than "Rehab," but LaChappelle's idea seemed to be, "Let's remove all of the energy of this song and present it as drably as possible." This is an active break-up song; yeah, she's sad and alone, but girl's getting it back together. She's backed up by one of the most famous Motown horn samples there is, for heaven's sake. None of that says to me, "Mope in a hotel room, then walk down a street filled with delightfully weird characters but keep your eyes down and ignore them." I kind of wish this video was about one of the street characters instead.
eh, www.amNY.com
UPDATE:
Oho! This comment over at Stereogum was enlightening:
c'mon.... it's a video full of hookers, she's staying in a hooker hotel..... he walks away, etc.....
It all goes together. You guys need to hang out on the dirty streets for a while..... although hookers never look as good as they do in this video Posted by: bc at June 25, 2007 10:39 PM
The video's still boring.
Comments (1)
wow, I hate this song! what was she trying to do, pass that riff from "Aint no Mountain" as a subliminal message? I wouldnt have caught it right away if you didnt mention it. And when you do catch it, you think how inferior this is to 1960s motown. No feeling, no emotion, I just dont feel this at all. Maybe they think people who listen to this dont have a point of referance, I dont know...