I’ve never been really sure of the value of song videos, suspicious that they are a cheap way to sell bad music. However despite having a high measured semantic fluency I am lost for words at the confluence of this ersatz Meatloaf epic and a visual experience for which I have no signifiers.
I think perhaps if I performed a Burrough’s cut up on a cultural theory textbook, and dropped the words “high school production” in there and stirred with a large spoon, and picked out a few bits, and taped them together, I may have an description of what I just saw.
8-bit transhumanism, anyone ?
Hazel o Connor - Eighth Day
You can sing along to the bouncing ball
In the beginning was a world
Man said, “Let there be more light”
Electric scenes a maze of beams
Neon brights to light our boring nights
On the second day he said, “Let’s have a gas”
Hydrogen and CO are of the past
Let’s make some germs, we’ll poison the worms
Man will never be suppressed
And he said, “Behold what I have done
I’ve made a better world for everyone
Nobody laugh, nobody cry
World without end, forever and ever”
Amen, amen, amen
On the third we get green and blue pill pie
On the fourth we send rockets to the sky
On the fifth make the beasts and submarines
On the sixth man prepares his final dream
In our image, let’s make robots for our slaves
Imagine all the time that we can save
Computers, machines, the silicon dream
Seventh he retired from the scene
And he said, “Behold what I have done
I’ve made a better world for everyone
Nobody laugh, nobody cry
World without end, forever and ever”
Amen, amen, amen
On the eighth day machine just got upset
A problem man had never seen as yet
No time for flight, a blinding light
And nothing but a void, forever night
He said, “Behold what man has done
There’s not a world for anyone
Nobody laughed, nobody cried
World’s at an end, everyone has died”
Forever amen, amen, amen
He said, “Behold what man has done
There’s not a world for anyone
Nobody laughed, nobody cried
World’s at an end, everyone has died”
Forever amen, amen, amen
Amen