I once saw a music video on youtube that I thought I’d put into my playlists so it would come back up again but it hasn’t, and now I’ve forgotten a lot of the details. Here’s what I remember:
In addition to the lyrics appearing on screen as the song was sung, there were a lot of little 3D renders of objects that represented the themes being sung about interspersed with the words. The background was mostly featureless blue, I think, but don’t hold me to that. The rendered lyrics and objects sprung up on what I’ve seen called an isometric plane, titled in respect to the camera, like some video games that are effectively 2-D present that way to appear 3D. I think the plane or parts of the plane had beveled edges.
Does this ring any bells with anybody? It was the most impressive kinetic typography I’d seen on youtube since the videos for Coulton’s “Shop Vac” and Weird Al’s “Word Crimes” (done by the same person).
You could try asking on the NameThatSong subreddit.
Many people ask for similar help, often with much less info !
It would help if you include the song’s genre and any other details you can
think of - if you can remember any of the lyrics it would be a great help.
That’s a HUGE amount to scroll through, with no guarantee I’ll recognize the thumbnail, or even if it’s still there in the watch history anymore. Youtube definitely starts forgetting the oldest items in the history, probably to make room for more recent activity, but it’s not consistent in the way it does it.
Thanks for the suggestion. I went to reddit to do as you suggested, only to find some time ago I’d already created a reddit account, using an alias tied too closely to my real life identity. Apparently I never posted, or it couldn’t find the posts, so I tried to delete the old name so I could create a new account using an alias related to this Ponder/Ponderoid online identity, and reddit started throwing stupid errors and now I seem to be stuck in limbo. Maybe I’ll try that again later.
If you don’t have any luck, post any more info you can think of (eg lyrics and genre) here
and i’ll ask on reddit.
And if you can remember the tune, record it in vocaroo and post a
lnk … it all helps.
Reddit does seem vey flaky recently.
I wish I could remember more. I’m terrible at naming which genre a song belongs to, my music knowledge is lacking in that department.
More details that I’m afraid might be incorrect or conflated with a different song:
Female singer, the song might have been about trouble in the workplace and resorting to drinking after work? Don’t hold me to that. I think I might have gotten distracted when it was playing and I wasn’t able to pay full attention.
Thanks, I really enjoyed that one and it went on my Kinetic Typography playlist. Still very much a work in progress and I’m just waiting for other songs to come up on my playlists to add to it.