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[petermarcus]

Live in the dark, and the world is threatening
-- Disturbed

I just saw the Disturbed video that has been generating all the 9/11 controversy and, perhaps as expected, I don't get the problem. Just another knee-jerk reaction from the powers-that-be who aren't bright enough to look past the surface? I dunno. Disturbed says they won't remake the video, which may hurt them as their second album could probably use the exposure...though the controversy may be getting them more than a video tossed into the normal rotation would. I'm cheering their decision anyway.

I liked their last album The Sickness. Kind of a punk/metal hardcore, vaguely Korn-ish, though Sickness was a bit less polished (if you could call Korn polished -- and I do.)

Any band's sophomore album is telling, whether it really is their second album or just the second album after "the popular one." Many times, the hit album comes after years of tweaking and crowd-testing tunes in front of fickle club audiences. The band gets some measure of success, then the second album is produced after six or eight months, with very little in the way of live crowd-testing. Some bands can't take it; they need audience feedback to make a hit, and the second album is a disaster.

"Prayer", the first single from Disturbed's new album, is, in my humble opinion, abso-fucking-lutely brilliant. The video is just a video, not bad, but not all that. But the song is wonderful. The lyrics are a give and take between the lead singer and God, a tried-and-true cliche, even with the Job angle. They pull it off, though. The song has a good hook musically through the chorus, and an edge through the rest of the lyrics: It's a contrast between chaos of life experience and the order of relating it to one's deity.

Here's the video, if you can get past the cheesy commercials: http://launch.yahoo.com/musicvideos/lists/byalpha.asp?l=D&p=1

Comments

[lizvang.livejournal.com]

damn. some buildings fell. so it obviously means it's about 9/11.

yes a tradgedy happened. yes it's sad but we can't shelter ourselves in for the rest of our lives.

i like the video. very nicely done.

[circlek.livejournal.com]

You said it sister.

So does this mean, directors can never show a building fall down, explosion or bombing?

UGH!

I really liked the LOOK of the lead singer. I wish I were skinnier I would do the bald thing. I actually liked his chin piercings, but I would NEVER do that.

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

Those piercings are...distinctive, aren't they? ;)

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[circlek.livejournal.com]

Yes, I liked them. I went to that site and watched all the Disturbed videos. Of course, I am in love ith this site and I am just letting it run all day. Makes my day less boring here at work.

Thanks again.

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

Yup, not even close.

However, the one aspect of society that probably should examine such things in tragic detail is the arts. Not that MTV is a patron of the arts community, of course ;)

[nbbmom.livejournal.com]

OMG! That's SUCH SHIT. I cannot believe MTV is opting out on that video. I don't even see it as any sort of 9-11 similarity. There are no airplanes smashing into buildings in the video. In fact, I didn't even see actual buildings falling more than I saw pieces of buildings falling as though it was an earthquake. And a lot of "nuclear blast" type references which is not uncommon. That aggravates me that MTV is overreacting like that. It's a well done video and what a GREAT song!

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

I think the parts in question were that blast thing (which I believe the lead singer said is an act of God like a meteor) and one scene of them playing their instruments in wreckage.

I've heard of MTV banning videos for sex, but this is the first time I've heard it done for politics.

[caren.livejournal.com]

heh, i don't see the point.