Signifcantly, I think this about the only unexplored direction the slow and ponderously uninnovative format music videos have to go they haven’t tried-- nostalgia. I haven’t watched many videos in years. But I might just be tempted to watch new versions of videos I’ve always secretly thought kinda could do a little better. I envision a couple of ways.
The Lucas Route. New digitally enhanced versions of the technologically primitive 80s videos are released with new CGI imagery. Lots of 1980s videos are begging for slight tweaks using this treatment: A-Ha’s Take On Me. Peter Gabriel’s Sledge Hammer.
The Romero Route. Artists simply re-shoot their older videoes using either the same exact song or a significantly updated version, maybe with tongue in cheek references to the original. Could Michael Jackson successfully reshoot Thriller? Could David Lee Roth redo Just A Gigalo and parody other artists? How might Madonna or Aerosmith reinterpret Like A Prayer or Janie’s Got A Gun? Maybe Weird Al could redo a couple of parodies, too.
The Animation Route: Much like the Snoopy/Outkast Hey Ya! Video clip got lots of internet airplay two years back, I can see a burgeoning industry of geeky computer filmmakers marrying songs imaginitively set to all kinds of cleverly edited pre-existing animation footage, stock photos or news clips. This is already happening now to some extent, but I’d like to see people tackle it using a broader range of music and imagery.
I would love to see this, but first I think we would need to have had collections of 80s music videos on dvd. SUre, we can get Peter Gabriel, or Pet-shop Boys collections, but what about a Best of the 80s video collection?
Oh, and someone made a live action remake of “Take on me” with a Non-photorealistic Camera Sure, it has lots of medical uses, but I wanna’ see the video!
(Yes, Idid google it, but I still can’t find it. :mad: )
