Ich bin ein Comicbuch Fan und es gibt mehrere Comicswebseiten die ich täglich besuche.
Heute eine von den wichtigsten amerikanischen webseiten hat mich mit einem wirklich netten Artikel überrascht.
Er heißt "TAKE ON ME" - THE GREATEST MUSIC VIDEO EVER
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=27298
Viel Spaß beim lesen.
"take on me" - the greatest music video ever!
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20. Juli 2010 um 23:47 -
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Da das thematisch hier gut dazu passt, füg ich diesen Link mal hier ein:
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/08/17/pho…ts-pipe-wrench/
Es ist eine neue 6-teilige Comicreihe erschienen, die u.a. das TOM-Video zitiert. Grund für den Autoren des Artikels, sich mal die bisherigen TOM-Video-Parodien und -Zitate genauer anzuschauen.
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MTV VMAs: Every Video of the Year Nominee, Ranked
Pitting the 160 music videos against each other, to correct the times that MTV's crystal ball wasn't so clearAndrew Unterberger // August 27, 2015
What do the videos for Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” have in common? Well, aside from being the only two videos you’re likely to see occupying the top spot of any MTV countdown of the greatest music videos of all-time, there’s this: Both were nominated for Video of the Year at the VMAs, but lost to significantly less timeless clips. (The Cars’ “You Might Think” took down the former, Van Halen’s “Right Now” the latter.) And they’re certainly not alone: Similarly enduring visuals from Madonna, the Beastie Boys, Jay Z, and countless others have had to endure the honor of just being nominated, while inferior clips took home the marquee Moonman.
Just like every major award show, the VMAs have had more misses than hits when it comes to giving out their top prize. So we’ve decided to level the playing field here, with our ranked list of all 160 videos ever nominated for Video of the Year, across the soon-to-be-32-year run of the VMAs. Winners are noted with asterisks, but only nine out of the 31 winners thusfar received our highest ranking from their respective years. Read through over three decades’ of music video history below, and see if our top-ranked video from 2015’s crop of nominees wins big this Sunday night. (Spoiler: It probably won’t.)(Lange Liste von Videos... )
1. A-ha, “Take On Me” (Steve Barron, 1985)
So how can you possibly ever put anything above “Thriller” on a list of the greatest music videos ever? Well, by saying that as brilliant and ambitious as “Thriller” was, and as much as it cemented Michael Jackson as pop music’s eternal Chosen One, it’s maybe not the clip that’s most in the spirit of what the music video is really about. MTV’s early days weren’t as much about making the successful and famous even more successful and famous; it was about finding stars in the unlikeliest corners of the globe, as long as they had a catchy song and an even catchier visual to go with it. It was about Split Enz, Men At Work, Culture Club, Musical Youth, and the Eurythmics. Even if only by necessity — many stars were slow to the music-video format at first, and MTV only had so many non-Rod Stewart and REO Speedwagon videos to go around — MTV had to get weird to get relevant. Hell, the first video they ever played was by the Buggles.
And so, “Take On Me,” the video that could be seen as the platonic ideal for MTV’s first half-decade: A video from a band that came out of nowhere — Norway, anyway — and captured the country’s attention for exactly the one song length, and no longer. It was as economic as “Thriller” was expansive, telling the entirety of an inter-dimensional love story in under four minutes, but certainly no less imaginative; blending animation and live action in a more innovative and visually enchanting way than even “Sledgehammer” managed, using it to enhance the sweep of its fantastical love story rather than just dazzling as a parlor trick. The song was sparkling and soaring and slightly nonsensical, the video even moreso. Just as a song, “Take on Me” might’ve still been a hit, but it’s the association with the video that makes it an all-time classic, one with just as recognizable an imprint on pop culture an entire generation later.
“Thriller” is still the preeminent music video, and always will be. But “Take On Me” is much closer to what people really think of when they think of the music video: A clip so transportive, so inspiring, so inexplicable, and so unlike anything that’s come before it that it can make an ephemeral pop act immortal for four minutes at a time. And while a run through all 13:43 of “Thriller” will never not feel like a commitment, if you have some spare time to kill on YouTube, it’s never a bad idea to grab singer Morten Harket’s pencil-sketched hand and get sucked into A-ha’s world of wonder one more time.
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http://www.rotoscopers.com/2015/10/05/for…d-music-videos/
ZitatA-Ha – “Take On Me” (1984)
A-Ha’s 1984 hit “Take On Me” is cheesy in a lot of ways, but it’s carefully aged ’80s cheese. It’s very synthesizer-ridden in its instrumentation, and the lyrics are corny, too. There’s a lot of reasons this song could have aged badly, and it does feel a little dated. That definitely doesn’t mean it’s bad, though, it’s delightful in all its kitschy ’80s glory. The video’s great in the same way!
This four-minute opus revolves around a teenage girl, who sips coffee in a diner while reading a loosely-sketched comic book about motorcycle racers. The girl’s day takes a turn for the strange, though, when the dashing hero of the book winks at her from the page, reaches out and sucks her into the book. The two enjoy a romp together, all while being menaced by the other racers, who get angry for some reason and try to kill the young couple.
Like the Tom Petty video, the “Take On Me” video relies heavily on rotoscoping. However, I personally feel that the technique works better with A-Ha than it did with Petty; it gives the characters a stylized movement that meshes well with the unique artwork. Like the song itself, the video is dated, but it’s still a lot of fun!