Club Tropicana, drinks are free,
Fun and sunshine - there’s enough for everyone.
All that’s missing is the sea…
Hey, George, what’s that large expanse of water 5 metres to your (Wham! - Club Tropicana (Official Video) - YouTube) ? The… swimming pool, you say ? OK, never mind.
:smack:
My wife and I laugh every time we see the video to Green Day’s “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”, where Billy Joe sings:
In the video, though, as he walks along, he’s not alone - his bandmates are right beside him.
Well, that’s sort of the point, though. In a city like LA, there might be a bunch of people around, but you’re still alone.
I understand that his complaint is metaphorical, but I think it would’ve been more effective visually for Billy Joe to literally walk alone, with maybe only his shadow (as mentioned in other verses from the song) beside him. The setting for the video is pretty desolate, but the presence of the other Green Day ladz is really jarring when he’s supposed to be … well, alone.
Aerosmith - Janie’s Got A Gun: the line goes “put a bullet in his brain” but when we see the corpse at 4:48, the only wound appears to be to the chest while the head looks perfectly intact.
Dancing With Myself? Oh, then what are all the mutants/zombies/whatevers that climbed up the building doing if not dancing with you once you give up on zapping them off the roof?
Kind of an obscure song, and depending somewhat on interpretations of the lyrics… Up Up Down Down by Kirby Krackle.
Lyrics:
This only makes sense to me, if ‘my shop’ means the one he frequents, and ‘box 138’ is his pull box.
The video shows him as a shop employee. Who might still have a pull list, but wouldn’t be known by his box number.
(I think the animator knows video games better than comics…she also has the girl pulling from the middle of what appears to be her read pile for the line ‘like me you pull from the middle/skip the books up on the top’, which would more likely refer to taking books off the shelves. But the game references are spot on.)