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Inaction Video
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So you're ready to film a Music Video for your new single. The only problem is you think that a simple Performance Video just won't cut it, you haven't got a budget for the Great Balls of Fire!, you find the Surreal Music Video idea pretentious and the Animated Music Video stupid. Or you're just tired and don't feel like doing it. Times like this call for the Inaction Video. The concept behind such a video is remarkably simple: the band or the face of the band stand around motionless or calmly perform their song while the background's dedicated to either Funny Background Events or a wild party with lots of people. The key here being that the band never acknowledges their surroundings and just does their own thing independent of what's going on while looking completely bored/disinterested/high. May involve an extreme Weirdness Censor. Usually they Leave the Camera Running. Almost always Played for Laughs. Understandable, since it's not a concept that lends itself easily to drama. Or if it does, it tends to tumble into Narm. See also Inaction Sequence. Not to be confused with monochrome backdrop videos. The funny or meaningful background events and the Weirdness Censor are essential for the Inaction Video. |
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Sinéad O'Connor's video for "Nothing Compares 2 U" is basically her singing the song in front of the camera. It won her the MTV Video Music Awards in 1990. | |
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The Replacements' "Bastards of Young." There are no background events, nor is there any more than part of a leg of a band member. There's just the camera, trained on a speaker with records leaning against it. The only "thing" that happens is when the guy gets up off the couch and kicks the speaker. Truly inaction at its most inactiony. To top it all off, the song is being played at the wrong speed, and is slightly sped up from the normal recording. The Replacements made the same video for two more songs off of their Tim album: "Left of the Dial" is virtually identical except that the speaker isn't kicked over and the song's being played at the right speed. "Hold My Life" is in color and has a little intro of the guy picking through his LP collection. |
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Probably inspired by Elvis Costello's video for "I Wanna Be Loved." | |
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Parodied on The Weird Al Show, where Al replaces the lyrics with Green Eggs and Ham. | |
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Korn's "Coming Undone" features the band playing the song in a desert while they ignore the sky falling and the ground collapsing. They do take notice by the end, where they unravel and fade into nothingness themselves leaving a blank white screen at the end of the video. | |
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Inverted by TISM's video for "Whatareya? (You're A Yob or You're A Wanker)", as the band themselves are the Funny Background Event: At first the band are participating in an aerobics program, and there's already a little bit of Weirdness Censor in place, since no one sees anything unusual about a large group of men dressed in all black and wearing balaclavas taking up the whole back row of the class. Then the members of the band get bored of exercising and haul in a couch, a television and a cooler full of beer - by the end of the video, the band are watching soccer, drinking, and generally littering and making a mess of the set, all while everyone else is obliviously continuing the aerobics routine. | |
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Played humorously by Kero Kero Bonito for the video "Break", featuring frontwoman Sarah Bonito posing completely still in her bright, pastel-colored outfits in very public areas. As to be expected, many of the shots contain at least a few confused and/or intrigued onlookers. | |
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Tom Petty's "You Don't Know How It Feels". | |
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Icehouse had two releases for Crazy; the Australian release has frontman Ida Davies wandering around a derelict industrial site with various dangerous things going on behind him, including random welding, grinding, pyrotechnics, an idiot or two on motorcycles, a vehicle crashing into a column right next to him; all without him apparently noticing until a truck runs into him, at which point the two girls who have followed him throughout the whole video at a respectable distance scavenge his jacket. | |
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The video for The Rembrandts' "I'll Be There For You" (AKA, the Friends theme). The band is just playing while the Friends cast fool around. | |
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