The Strokes "Heart in a Cage"
2nd First Impressions of Earth Single it's a great song Format: mp4 Enjoy
Very sloppy editorially. Overall feels very mid 90's, no? Reminded me of Bayer's (or Fincher's) Stones video in its use of nyc as the grand backdrop.
The narrative is a little blurry. Don't understand why pedestrians are walking by throughout and then suddenly decide to attack the drummer and bassist?
There's also a weird inconsistency in scale. Why one band member is on a roof, another on a stone ledge, another 2 in the street, and another on the ground. Maybe it would've been stronger if all were on the ground...?
Even better: inside the ground. Wouldn't that help tie the meaning of the song together in an interesting way? Would've been great to then see them all rise out of the ground - or conversely, be swallowed up by it. Either approach would suggest a rather prescient viewpoint of the band.
Great track.
I liked it, though it does feel very reminiscent of "love is strong". I think the last part where the drummer goes down as the singer gets up could have used a little more emphasis, but it's quite good.
director Sam Bayer FYI. and the Stones video was Fincher.
"the Strokes traveled back in time to 1995 to make their most recent video."
As much as I've disliked these recent clips - they've been performing a lot better than in their past videos. Remember how bored they looked in that Tron one?
If only they had choosen my treatment...oh the fun we would have had!!
FELL: BAYER made a stones video called "Anybody See My Baby" - set in nyc. Fincher ALSO made one as well (love is strong). My comment highlights both promos as being some kind of influence on this.
word, got ya.
if there is one person Bayer is always an influence on, it's himself.
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I love this video, its nothing like mid 90's think old 1920-40's new york photography, some of the shots are direct references to Walker Evans, Alfred Eisenstaedt and others...
cool, it looks much nicer full res, no justice in 320x240
Here is the stream of the video
gwan: if you have it on nicer full res, why don't you upload it?
i liked half of this: lusk's right: the towering guitarists are just wrong here (stuck in there to have the skyline? sorry: that's cliché.) on the other hand, the in-the-middle-of-it-all feels just right and is done really watchably (maybe the nervous edit's a bit hackneyed but it really worked with the track). fuck knows why people started grubbing them, but who cares - grubby ending's fine by me.
Fincher's Stones video shits all over this
