10.14.14: The Last VJ’s Top 5 Music Videos of the Week
Welcome to The Last VJ, music fans! It’s a diverse round-up this week, everything from petty destruction to thought-provoking visions of primal gods and hidden mysteries. This one might be best if viewed by night, so save the link and curl up later if you want to best experience some of the lines this series of videos is going to cross.
Highasakite, “Darth Vader”
Highasakite comes correct with the first video from the upcoming Silent Treatment. “Darth Vader’ is a simple video that is fun in it’s terrible implications. For all intents and purposes it’s really just the story of one asshole kid running around doing asshole things. Think about is as the meth-up juvenile delinquent version of Green Day’s “When I Come Around”.
What’s awesome though is how perfectly this mirrors the song it is the video for. “Darth Vader” as a tune sounds lighthearted but is actually an exploration of whether or not we’re bad people inside. Just as Anniken Skywalker started out as a scared kid with a crush looking to save someone’s life, here we’ve got just your typical ten-year-old looking to be big and bad.
Well, not enough people cut Skywalker down when he needed it just as no one elbows this kid for slapping the ass of a girl as he walks by. The result of both is a gleeful descent into well rewarded destruction and villainy. Wonderfully done.
Goat “Hide From the Sun”
Looking at some of the more esoteric videos that came out this week we get “Hide From the Sun”, directed by Sam Macon who also did Dum Dum Girls’ “Bedroom Eyes”. Macon’s a master of the bizarre and unsettling, and this video is no different.
Imagine if Where the Wild Things Are were taken to its total logical conclusion with an adult. Strange, primal forces declaring an outsider king and commanding revels by night? Doesn’t that sound exactly like an avant garde horror film? Here’s we’ve got masked Aztec gods and a queen flanked by the killer from The Town That Dreaded Sundown and bejeweled skulls all over some kind of sun dance. It’s freakish, fun, and definitely worth watching.
