stormy-monday
Ein Video? So alt, so wahr:
Ich will ja nicht auf deine Parade regnen, aber das ist kein Original-Clip von 1965, damals hat man noch keine Videos aus originalem Footage kompiliert. Tatsächlich entstand das erste Musikvideo dieser Art genau 20 Jahre später, um einen Dancefloor-Track zu bebildern, der seinerseits mit gesampelten Statements aus einer Vietnam-Doku arbeitete. Die ganze Ästhetik unterschied sich so drastisch von den seit den Sixties ritualisierten Protestsong-Topoi, dass es damals einiges Aufsehen und Diskussionen hervorrief. Inzwischen ist diese Form der Darstellung selbst schon wieder stereotyp.
Paul Hardcastle – 19
„After the song’s unexpected, rapid climb to the top of the UK Singles Chart, Chrysalis asked Vietnam Requiem directors Jonas McCord and Bill Couturié to rush a video into production. Due to the lack of a band able to perform the song, the video was primarily composed of clips from the Vietnam Requiem documentary, edited together by Ken Grunbaum. The first version of the video included footage from the television networks NBC and ABC, including a newscast by ABC anchorman Frank Reynolds. After it was aired on MTV in the US, NBC and ABC objected to the „bad taste“ of using the serious clips in a „trivial“ form of „propaganda“. McCord and Couterié were forced to produce a new cut incorporating public domain footage, but ABC permitted Reynolds‘ audio to remain. Couterié asserted at the time that the television networks opposed the video because it involved rock music.
What is the difference between the words in our song and the 7 o’clock news? The only difference is rock’n’roll. And why did they love the documentary and hate the video so much? Every word in the song is from the film, and there was never any argument with the facts. The only difference is the music.“ (Wikipedia)
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