(11-09-2015, 01:24 AM)kkong Wrote: (11-07-2015, 02:48 PM)riley Wrote: I don't have any expectations for the video on this one, Scott has his shtick on PMJ videos that is amusing at times. Haley always classes it up in her videos (I am totally biased) but not sure how you can do that with a 7 foot clown. I think it was smart on Haley's part to have top billing for the song release being Puddles. I would not want anything to compete with her new single release or her new video that I am looking forward to seeing "soon".
Well, I thought I was the only one who didn't love this. I tried to give Puddles a chance tonight and listened to all his videos I could find -- to no avail. I think his sound is a bit pretentious and mostly forgettable, unless he's playing it for a laugh, which he generally is. I'm glad he's enjoying some success -- just not my cup of tea.
But paired with Haley in a serious song? I don't think Michael Geier's and Haley's voices go together particularly well. Haley's performance is great, but the juxtaposition in the first two thirds of the song makes her sound immature. She is terrific in the final third where there is finally some harmony. No surprise how good her harmony is there after hearing Kiss Me, Dear Prudence, and of course AATB.
Parallel: would you put these two together?
Don't mean to be a downer 
. I know most of you loved this.
(11-07-2015, 08:18 PM)ButterandBloom Wrote: I don't have any expectations for the video on this one, Scott has his shtick on PMJ videos that is amusing at times. Haley always classes it up in her videos (I am totally biased) but not sure how you can do that with a 7 foot clown.
I don't have a problem with Haley exhibiting a different side of her personality for the PMJ audience. I think Haley has potential for some comedy shtick and this number could show that. We've seen her interaction with Casey on some of their gigs, and it can be pretty funny. She seems to have some natural comedy timing. In fact I could imagine her some day after (not if, but after) she becomes popular hosting, or at least appearing on Saturday Night Live and being funny in some skits.
"I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had."
Mad World is oozing with potential, but not for comedy shtick.
Here's an interview in The Guardian of Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith of Tears for Fears describing how they came about to write, record and produce Mad World.
"A guitar teacher we knew introduced us to Arthur Janov's psychology book The Primal Scream. Mad World's chorus – "The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had" – is from Janov's idea that nightmares can be good because they release tension."
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/de...ears-fears
"It is a dark song but it brings back happy memories. When we made the video in a country estate on the cheap, we bussed all our friends and family up from Bath and had a fun day. The woman who's having the birthday party in the video is my mum."
There have subsequently been many versions/interpretations of this song, some very dark, suggesting suicide, and others more on the ironic side, which seems closer to what was the original intent of TFF.
As far as songs being used in strange ways - the other day a very subdued version of "Oops" was used as background music on Grey's Anatomy. Now that's different.
Mad World with Haley and Puddles on PMJ Top Hat on Fleek
