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Chan790

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12. Actually if you go read the description of the concept, it's just really badly executed.
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 08:23 PM
Nov 2013

It's supposed to be minimalist and mimed, but it comes across as lazy and bizarre.

From Wikipedia:

A music video, co-directed by Neil Pollock and Jonathan Bekemeier, to promote the single shows the band playing its instruments through a distorted fish-eye lens, the camera variously panning horizontally across the performance space and vertically over the individual band members. Keeping in the spirit of the mimed performance, Francis and Deal open and shut their mouths in time with their prerecorded vocals, yet make no attempt to articulate their lips in synch with the words that they are supposed to be singing. Instead, they simply keep their mouths wide open with blank expressions for the duration of each verse. Francis stated that "Water on the brain" was the theme of the clip.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Comes_Your_Man
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