Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday.
Last week saw the surprise (or at least short notice) release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Anima,” a 15-minute “one-reeler” that serves as a glorified and glorious music video for three of the tracks on Thom Yorke’s new solo album.
This week’s question: What is the best music video of the 21st century?
“Bad Cover Version” (Pulp)
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Ethan Warren (@EthanRAWarren), Bright Wall/Dark Room
The music video for Pulp’s 2001 track “Bad Cover Version” is unorthodox in several respects, but mainly one pretty significant one: rather than using the album vocals provided by frontman Jarvis Cocker for this song of lackluster imitators—be they new romantic partners or “a later Tom & Jerry when the two of them could talk”—the song is here performed by a cavalcade of professional imitators...
Last week saw the surprise (or at least short notice) release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Anima,” a 15-minute “one-reeler” that serves as a glorified and glorious music video for three of the tracks on Thom Yorke’s new solo album.
This week’s question: What is the best music video of the 21st century?
“Bad Cover Version” (Pulp)
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Ethan Warren (@EthanRAWarren), Bright Wall/Dark Room
The music video for Pulp’s 2001 track “Bad Cover Version” is unorthodox in several respects, but mainly one pretty significant one: rather than using the album vocals provided by frontman Jarvis Cocker for this song of lackluster imitators—be they new romantic partners or “a later Tom & Jerry when the two of them could talk”—the song is here performed by a cavalcade of professional imitators...
- 7/1/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
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