Actually, bizarrely (or maybe not) (I know I said I was gonna go; I will, I'm almost done packing my stuff up), the video that "You Do Your Thing" most brings to mine for me is Laibach's great quasi-fascist (though allegedly anti-fascist) "Life is Life" -- especially when Montgomery is standing there singing, with the stars and stripes and Constitution and purple mountain's majesty behind him, just like the alps and elks behind Laibach's brown shirts in their video. The thing gives me chills, and if any music will remind me 20 years from now how fucked up life got in 2004, seeing the MG video will. It totally gets this sickness dead on, from the horseshit about liberal elitist hypocrites eating their meat in those fancy restaurants while they look askance down their snobby urban noses at M and G and their kids returning from the hunting trip on down. And no, "best video" does not mean "most morally upstanding"; I'm not very good at judging music that way. But I have to admit that do get off on the video, somehow. There is something about its power, and the music's physical power, that I find hard to resist, and that makes the thing seem more dangerous, which makes it better. Maybe that makes me a masochist, who knows. But then again, it's hardly the first time that awesomely hard-rocking music has flirted with evil, and it won't be the last.
― chuck, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link