This week, the video that comes out of the vault is actually a bit of an anti-video:
A music video, filmed by local students, to promote the single shows the band playing their instruments through a distorted fish-eye lens, the camera variously panning horizontally across the performance space and vertically over the individual band members. Keeping in the spirit of the mimed performance, Francis and Deal open and shut their mouths in time with their prerecorded vocals, yet make no attempt to articulate their lips in synch with the words that they are supposed to be singing. Instead, they simply keep their mouths wide open with blank expressions for the duration of each verse.
Even though it’s an anti-video, it’s an anti-video of one of my all-time favorite songs. Of course helped along by the fact that it features one of my big crushes Kim Deal.
