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Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Gnarls Barkley's MTV-banned video
Posted at 10:07 by
Caitlin E. Curran
Gnarls Barkley
news abounds today. First, the oh-so-predictable happened: the album, aptly titled
The Odd Couple
, leaked. Yawn. Call us when a hugely anticipated follow-up album doesn't leak. (Actually,
Atmosphere
might be able to pull it off. A recent e-mail from their publicist informed us that the only way for reviewers to listen to their newest record,
When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
, is to head to one of the SXSW listening parties, or travel to Independent Label Group's offices in NYC. That's the kind of extreme leak prevention Always is talking about in those gross blue liquid test commercials.) Today,
NME is reporting
that GB's video for "Run," the first single from
The Odd Couple
, has been banned from MTV (
huge
bummer, because now we'll have nothing to watch for the 45 minutes around 4 am or so, when MTV actually plays videos, except for the latest Rihanna song craze or whatever). From
NME
:
"It was deemed that the video for 'Run', which features a cameo appearance from Justin Timberlake, may trigger epileptic seizures with its strobe-like effects.
'I don't know exactly what's going on, but we're having issues,' Danger Mouse told Billboard. 'I think (the video) is cool. It works for me. But I'm not necessarily that easily seasick.'"
The video's still everywhere
online
- including above, should we be posting a disclaimer or something? - so it's not really a huge blow for the craaazzzyy duo - if anything, everyone's rushing to
YouTube
now to watch the Timberlake-a-licious video, and then thinking really hard about whether they feel dizzy or anything. We just watched it and we feel ok - the song itself has all of the addictive deliciousness we hoped Gnarls Barkley's
St. Elsewhere
follow-up would have, and pairs well with a frantic dance party - but we're no experts on photogenic or photosensitive epilepsy. But, on a sensory level, it's nothing like some of the crazy light and sound performances we caught a few weeks ago in Amsterdam (and we've been looking for an excuse to blog about), which also came with a disclaimer for those with epilepsy. A few photos:
The images above are from an experimental light/sound performance at an art gallery in Amsterdam, and a few nights later we experienced something similar at a packed, multi-level club called Paradiso. It was the tail end of the
Sonic Acts festival
, and the final act of the night,
an italian multimedia artist called Tez
, used "flickering video, in the form of abstract lights and color gradients, coupled with synchronized synthetic sounds, distributed in a surround quadrophonic system," which, in more understandable terms, means glaring, shifting lights projected on a screen, and software-manipulated sounds leaking from extremely loud speakers - there was a large sign measuring the decibel levels. It was simultaneously totally strange and totally engaging - and maybe just a bit overwhelming. Who knew there was a connection between Italian experimental sonic weirdness, and American dance-pop?
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