Rab Beyoncé's “Formation”, the greatest music video ever in 2021. But when it comes to the most influential place, the first place can go to a clip that is not even a real music video – and was shot in Black & White 60 years ago.
Last week Margo Price released a jauntic new single “Don't Wake Me Up”, accompanied by a video in which she keeps white cards with snippets of texts – including “Cow Pasture Cemethery”, “Honky Tonk Leaky Tent”, “Tive Bar” – how the song plays. It was not a classic rock historian to show the video as an allusion to Bob Dylan's “Subterranean Homesick Blues”, the canonical footage of the young bobs from 1965 in a London-Gasse that had seen cards with parts of the melody when a canonical film material from 1965 had seen. In the background, the poet Allen Ginsberg is located with the off-screen dylan Pal Bobby Neuwirth.
The scene was not a real music video and was the opener of the penetrating film by Documentarian da Pennebaker from 1967 from 1967 Don't look backShot on Dylan's UK Tour of two years. Penbaker said laterThe concept came from Dylan himself: “He said: 'I have this idea for a film in which I take a lot of paper sheets and write texts for a song and hold it while the texts appear in the song and then I just throw away.' And I said: “So we brought about 50 shirt cardboards.”
The film material was filmed in the alley behind the Savoy Hotel in London, and according to Pennebaker (who died in 2019), some of the handwritten texts by Joan Baez and Donovan were delivered, which at that time both were in Dylan's surroundings (and crosshair).
As soon as the MTV -era began, the sequence, which was so relatively primitive, was viewed as a music video prototype and began to inspire knockouts and tributes. “When Margo came up to me with the concept, I dipped deeply in groups that had carried out similar projects with poster cards or CUE cards, and was shocked to see how many there were,” says Hannah Gray Hall, who headed Price's “Don't Wake Me”. “It is like keeping a tradition going.”
The first was perhaps “MISFIT”, the video of the stylish British pop band Curiosity killed the cat, in which Andy Warhol dropped in white cards during a short cameo card.
In the following year, Inx's' Mediate “increased the Dylan homage to another level. Starting with singer Michael Hutchence, all band members held one after the other and then left poetry cards one after the other.” They had to do the timing correctly ” Rab From filming outside of Sydney in the home country of the band Australia. “They had to make sure that the cards had landed.” In a further greeting for the Dylan video, some of the words were deliberately missed on the cards.
In a sign that not everything was immediately available on YouTube in 1987 (of course, YouTube did not have to exist), said Farriss that he was not aware of the source material at the time. “I'm not sure if it was the idea of the director or Michael, but I have to admit that I didn't even know that Bob had such a video,” he says. “Maybe some of the other boys did. I only know that it sounded like a good idea. I saw [the original] Later and went: 'Oh, wow.' 'The relaxation was so obvious that a critic found at the time that “both filmmakers [Pennebaker] and his topic [Dylan] I should round the lawyers together ”, but that did not prevent the song at the MTV Music Video Awards from 1988 in connection with the band's accompanying clip for“ Need You Tonight ”a video of the year.
Since then, a house industry has risen from “underground homesicken blues” videos, each of which honors the original in different ways. As with the curiosity, the cat killed, some approached their remakes as parodies. “Weird al” Yankovics “Bob” found the most popular satirical hero of all Dylan wigs, vest and alleys in 2003, his own satirical hero, a fake ginsberg behind him when Yankovic Dylans changed surrealistic images (“Ascent, Sir/do God God/Thod interpreting,/nine men, I nodded, I nodded.”
Although “Subterranean Homesick Blues” is not one of Dylan's topical songs, others have used the setup for their own protest. Les Claypool and the “Buzzards of Green Hill” of the Froschbrigade typically have carnival claypool texts that could be about the dangers of drunk driving, hence the use of CUE cards by Claypool in the video of the song.
At the beginning of this year, Kim Gordon gave the packing list texts of “Bye Bye” in a minimalist anti-trump protest song “Bye Bye 25! The artist Ed Ruscha has her own sound youth connection (the band called her song” Brave Men Run “after one of his pictures) and also a dylan: 2012 he offered a Lyric-Card homage Conceptual artists Lawrence Weince with snackets from Weiner's own words.
We are Held's 2005 video “Only one word” (“Just One Word”) showed the now dissolved German pop band in their own alley, which danced and chicken when they flashed their poetry leaves. (Since the song is about encouraging a private person to express themselves – “their silence is their tent” – the use of words in the video made conceptual sense.) And before he killed zombies, converted Andrew Lincoln Keira Knightley in Love actually With, yep, words on white cards.
In the case of Price 'Video, Director Hall said that Price's team turned to her to do something similar to Dylan, “but you should make it my own and make a contemporary attitude.” With 77 different poster board cards for your shoot, Hall believes that these lyric snippets also combine with the topic of the song and Dylan's own legacy: “Margo and I have not talked about it, but it speaks very strongly for our current social climate and the people who are isolated in their own way and do not look at other people's opinion.
For Farriss, an almost 40 years of “underground homesickness -Blues -Hommagen” combine. “It's easy,” he says. “Just because something is complicated does not mean that it is absolutely good.”