Anybody know the name of the artist and or song for the video where a guy shows up on the same day every year to dance in front of a store or diner or something?
The artist is Dirty Vegas, and the name of the song is “Days Go By.”
This is the same song used in the Mitsubishi commercial that has the girl in the pink hat pop-locking in the front seat.
Indeed…that is why the band members appear in the video stopped at an intersection driving the same Mitsubishi model as appears in the commercial.
Could somone possibly explain the video to me?
I saw it once in passing, and didn’t really pay any attention. Later I saw part of an interview with the group, where they were talking about the story line, and it seemed interesting. I kept an eye out, but I haven’t seen it since.
So can someone give me the cliff’s notes version?
Spit:
As this is one of my favorite videos, a synopsis isn’t too difficult to do. 
Daybreak. Sharp-dressed, handsome, bald, and mustachioed black man, carrying a briefcase, walks up to the front entrance of a diner. He lays out some cardboard on the sidewalk in front of it.
At a nearby intersection, the members of the band appear in the Mitsubishi and stop at a red light. The lead singer–and driver–rolls down a window to watch.
The sharp-dressed (in a suit) man begins dancing–80’s style break dancing, but so incredibly cool it doesn’t appear that dated. It’s truly amazing to watch.
Passers-by appear, with one woman saying “There he goes again.” She explains–through captions–that he does this every year, same day, from dawn to dusk. “They say it’s some sort of ritual.” He used to dance like this all the time, “back in the day.”
Midday. Suited man suddenly shifts to what he looked like “back in the day”–red jump suit, canvas sneakers. “Nice shoes” one observer notes. “She gave them to him. They were in love. But he couldn’t stop. So…she left. Now he dances to bring her back.”
Sudden pause–music stops. We hear the dancer doing back hand springs while the characters now speak, rather than are captioned, saying “I heard it was a car accident.” “I heard she was struck by lightning.” “Yeah, well, whatever…she just didn’t come back.”
Dancing and music resumes. When the camera shifts back to the dancer, he’s now his adult self again…back in the suit, sporting a mustache, and the canvas shoes are now well-worn and held together with duct tape.
In one shot, we see his former love watching him from the sidewalk (an apparent desired illusion kinda thing–she’s not really there).
Sundown. Dancer packs up the cardboard, picks up his suitcase, and walks away.
This is a video on high rotation at both MTV2 and VH1-2. I’ve seen it, oh, a few times.
Is that really what that’s called. I’ve never heard that word/phrase before (then again I don’t know jack about dance theory).
Thank you Ruffian.
I thought the video sounded pretty cool from the interview I saw. I’ll have to keep an eye out.
**This is the same song used in the Mitsubishi commercial that has the girl in the pink hat pop-locking in the front seat. **
An ad repeated so often (at least in the Baltimore MD market) that I have added Mitsubishi automobiles to the list of products (now numbering 12,418) that I WILL NEVER BUY.
Damn, that IS a good video. I had to watch VH1 for 7 hours, but it was worth it.
Very cool.
Isn’t that like the one video that has title cards that actually explain what’s happening?