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Wow that guy’s voice is hard to listen to.
Totally digging the epic Shaq smile at the end.
@Kevin: could it be because the vocalist is singing through some kind of multi-effect synthesizer? It sounds like the human voice reduced to a piece of industrial refuse.
Tremendous acting on all sides, wouldn’t you say? This cloying music video milks every last drop of sentiment it can from the idea of angelic apparitions in the sky. Irritating.
This makes no sense. I can only assume that Shaq has previously appeared in a Postal Service video.
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super compression and auto tune.
this is too ridiculous for words.
lol @ shaq mouthing “TAKE ME WITH YOU!”
How ironic that the original Superman who was so vocal about Dwight Howard ripping off his name now appears in one of the biggest rip offs of all time.
Postal Service called, they want their…everything back.
first off, postal service is to owl city as biggie is to lil wayne. second, shaq is about as relevant to this video as the components of that comparison were to one another. im so confused.. im gonna be pissed if shaq shows up for the playoffs looking like a hippo because he was too busy making cameos in gay synthpop music videos to work out.
@max – shaq looked pretty thin in the video.
what’s with all the hate?
Video was funny, ya’ll need to chill out.
That video made my night. Don’t ask. Lol
And Shaq did look thin, which fits with reports of him staying in excellent shape.
ummm………. excellent cinematography…
Lol. Well John, as Owl City goes, this song is not very good. I mean Hello Seattle is cool and different. This song sounds too close to other pop songs and not transcendent like Fireflies (or another way to put it, women didn’t orgasm just by listening to this one). The video was mostly people staring up at clouds that at one point look like a woman….All-in-all the only truly redeeming quality is Shaq being Shaq. IMO that makes this video worth watching.
Oh and this guy isnt gay either, I know a lot of people think that. He is actually Christian Inspired and an intense Insomniac. Which is what makes other songs so cool. But this one is just slow, lame, and not exciting in any way. I like owl city but…..oh well. TAKE ME WITH YOU
Young seems to shy away from anything that in any way, shape, or form manages to even convey an inkling of bass. Part of the reason people like listening to the “OMGETHEREAL” ear candy, and part of the reason people try to claim he’s so “COOLER AND DIFFERENT”.
Yeah, the Doors didn’t have a bassist either. (Not a true counterargument since Manzarek handled a lot of it, but not always)
For all the layers of complexity that are purportedly present, as well, it ends up being mostly of the lazy variety as far as I can tell – it’s really not terribly difficult to recreate some of these effects given an hour or two and basic equipment. I have a parody of Fireflies from a few months ago, and it took me maybe two and a half hours to mock up an instrumental track for it, without professional-grade equipment.
Not that any popular music isn’t derivative in some way nowadays, but two other things I might point out: The chord progression used is the ubiquitous 1-5-6-4 progression, which is probably the second most inane and vaguely recognizable set of chords floating around nowadays (think Let It Be, Don’t Stop Believing, any Maroon 5 song, Take On Me, Where Is The Love, Apologize, what have you).
The song bogs down about 2/3 of the way through, which is understandable. What device is used? The crowbar modulation into the last verse, which is so unexpected that good old Motown Records (the company of micromanging everything involved with their artists fame) used it in every single they ever released by anybody not named Stevie Wonder.
That being said, Shaq is the beacon of legitimacy for this video at the moment. (On the other hand, the same could be said about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfhhWA9GF0M this video…) I could probably stand to watch the video a second time just to see how ridiculous Shaq looks compared to all of the other people. Probably couldn’t stomach the song a third, though.