What we got here is the music video for the song Nightlight by the band Silversun Pickups, so quite a few cosmic phenomena in here with night, light and sun, but unfortunately this one did not illuminate me at all, on the contrary. You can see from my rating that I am not a fan at all. The director was Mark Pellington and if you take a look at his body of work, then you will see that he has been really prolific over the years and this is not just the case now in 2024, but he was already fairly experienced in 2015, so almost a decade ago when this got made. Probably over a decade if you get here a little later to read this review of mine. It is also not your stereotypical music video as it runs for slightly under eight minutes, so definitely above-average, almost twice as long as they usually do, and the face that it has a credit section as well makes it obvious that Pellington was going for a bit of a mix between movie and music video. A plot I cannot really make out here though. In the first minute and at the end again as well we have a woman that we see and hear her voiceover. I do not remember the exact words, but it was clearly on the pretentious side. We follow her journey through the night a bit during the long part in-between. Unfortunately, not in an awesome fashion as The Prodigy had us follow a girl through the night back in the day. But even in the middle part here it felt very much style over substance from beginning to end. The supposedly showy moments when we see a man sing with a voice that was very high-pitched and could have come from a female were just not enough.
I cannot come with any reason at all to watch this music video and I wish it would have been shorter. I am not familiar with the band Silver Sun Pickups and while the name is alright, there was nothing in this music video that makes me want to keep an eye on them (or rather ear) and I cannot find any motivation to check out their discography any time soon. So what you hear in this short film is just as forgettable as what you see I must say, even the audio is inferior and it takes quite something for that because yeah it is not a pretty sight by any means. The artistic component the were going for here through pompous set decoration, lots of skin and wigs here and there - it was just not working for me at all. Probably also did not help that the Meg Steedle who plays the main character here was not exactly appealing to me physically. I cannot be a judge of her acting talent from the way she is included here, but I see she was on Boardwalk Empire. Quite liked that show, even if I cannot say I remember her. But before I am drifting further away from this extremely forgettable music video, let me say that I think this is absolutely not worth it and that the viewer count on Youtube that is easily inside seven-digit territory is just far too high. I give it a thumbs-down and it was not even close. I thought this was awful and very unappealing. Like basically a fashion commercial gone totally wrong.
I cannot come with any reason at all to watch this music video and I wish it would have been shorter. I am not familiar with the band Silver Sun Pickups and while the name is alright, there was nothing in this music video that makes me want to keep an eye on them (or rather ear) and I cannot find any motivation to check out their discography any time soon. So what you hear in this short film is just as forgettable as what you see I must say, even the audio is inferior and it takes quite something for that because yeah it is not a pretty sight by any means. The artistic component the were going for here through pompous set decoration, lots of skin and wigs here and there - it was just not working for me at all. Probably also did not help that the Meg Steedle who plays the main character here was not exactly appealing to me physically. I cannot be a judge of her acting talent from the way she is included here, but I see she was on Boardwalk Empire. Quite liked that show, even if I cannot say I remember her. But before I am drifting further away from this extremely forgettable music video, let me say that I think this is absolutely not worth it and that the viewer count on Youtube that is easily inside seven-digit territory is just far too high. I give it a thumbs-down and it was not even close. I thought this was awful and very unappealing. Like basically a fashion commercial gone totally wrong.