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| From | Gene Good <javagene@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: OK/Go does it again |
| Date | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:45:25 +0000 |
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Michael,
I have read all the posts about this album, and yours really makes me want to check it out. I trust your pop sense ,and you definitely said some cool things about the music.Can't wait to check it out.
Gene
> I've been a bit obsessed by this OK Go thing the last week. The first vid i
> saw was the marching band one, and i thought it was amazing. Clever. Brave
> (who records the audio live in videos anymore). Really creative, and a lot
> of fun. I really liked the song too from that version. Then i saw the
> version that everyone is talking about, and it really blew my mind. And i
> still thought the song was great. The video continues to kill me... it's
> like a new benchmark to me of creativity in this context.. and again, is a
> LOT of fun. There's a lot of really funny things going on in it. I've been
> really surprised more people have been complaining about the song. I
> actually listened to the song the other day without the video, and i really
> liked it. I thought it was catchy. Had a huge bass drum thing going on,
> which i always love. Big guitars. Tiny belly things. And it's pop music and
> people are talking about it. THAT makes me happy...
>
> And now to read the posted link about the band's issues with EMI, and how
> they've self funded all their videos, and are being hamstrung by it all. It
> was well written.. articulate, honest, and you could feel the sense of
> conflicted frustration by the writer. It's worked for me. I'd been curious
> about Ok Go in the past, but not enough to buy the records. Today, i'm going
> to go and buy them. It is important that good creative people who understand
> the way the 'system' now works, and are trying to be creative and have some
> fun while trying to get themselves out there need to be supported more than
> ever.
>
> And it sounds like pop music to me.
>
> MC
>
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