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Talky Bookends
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Often used in the Concept Video to help set up and conclude the "story", Talky Bookends are those music-free scenes you get at the beginning and end of a music video. In more experimental (or self-indulgent) videos, they can seem to go on for longer than the music. The bookends don't really have to come in pairs — sometimes a video will just have an introduction and end in a more traditional way; other times it will play through like an ordinary video and end with a brief non-music scene. It's still a bookend, though, even if there's just one of it. Note that the bookends don't really have to feature conversation or even any dialogue at all — sometimes it's as simple as a dialogue-free sequence showing the band setting up their equipment. Repeat showings of the videos tend to quietly cut out the Talky Bookends, particularly if they go on too long. |
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Their video for "I Don't Care" features bookends including Gilby Clarke revealed as Sarah Palin in disguise. | |
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"Thriller", which is about fourteen minutes long, was the Trope Codifier; it's about five minutes before we get to the song. From that point onward, many of his bigger videos had these, to the point that they could run upwards of ten minutes (he preferred they be called short films). After their initial airings they were usually trimmed to just the song portion. | |
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Architecture In Helsinki's "Heart It Races" starts with a voiceover about a strange tribe's weird rites, which apparently involve dancing in neon costumes. | |
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Ghosts is actually a short film at 38 minutes, with three songs — but there's lots of talking; Michael is a spirit of some sort who faces a Torches and Pitchforks mob of angry parents who disapprove of his secretly meeting with their children for ghost stories. | |
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And Phil Collins' song "Don't Lose My Number" has a very surreal meta video that involves him talking to directors about their ideas for the song's music video (each of which parodies another music video or movie). The video doesn't just have an opening and closing, it continually cuts away to the dialogue throughout the song. If you've ever wanted to see Phil Collins fending off the post-apocalyptic goons from Mad Max or battling a samurai warrior in ancient Japan, this is the video for you. | |
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The full version of Elvis Costello's "Veronica" video begins and ends with EC sitting in an empty care home room, talking about his grandmother, the inspiration for the song. | |
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"I Can't Dance" by Genesis ends with one of these. It's an homage/parody of the segment that originally closed Michael Jackson's "Black and White" from Dangerous. Also "Jesus He Knows Me," which opens with Phil Collins as an unscrupulous televangelist asking viewers to contribute eighteen million dollars to the Lord. And Phil Collins' song "Don't Lose My Number" has a very surreal meta video that involves him talking to directors about their ideas for the song's music video (each of which parodies another music video or movie). The video doesn't just have an opening and closing, it continually cuts away to the dialogue throughout the song. If you've ever wanted to see Phil Collins fending off the post-apocalyptic goons from Mad Max or battling a samurai warrior in ancient Japan, this is the video for you. "I Wish It Would Rain Down" starts off at a rehearsal for a show, with a complaining director. The singer for "Rain" is missing, so 'Bill Collins' (who "used to be the drummer for a really good band, and when the singer left, he took over") gets elected to sing it. Throughout the song, he performs in the show, tours, gets a part in a movie, becomes rich and famous, wins awards... and then it turns out it was all an Imagine Spot, and the ending bookend is the director deciding to cut the number. "This was not good." |
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Moonwalker's segments for "Speed Demon" and "Smooth Criminal" from Bad — Michael is pursued on a movie set in the former, and the latter sandwiches the song in an elaborate fantasy story about him, his child friends, and Joe Pesci's character Frankie Lideo, who wants to profit from selling drugs to children. Michael saves the day by turning into a sportscar, mecha and spaceship. The middle ten minutes is the music video proper; set in an old dance hall, it has nothing to do with the plot whatsoever. | |
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"Hello", by Lionel Richie. Seemingly a sappy romance, unless you consider you consider that the video tells the story of a teacher stalking a blind girl from his class, calling her in the middle of the night to ask if "it's me you're looking for". | |
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The video for Aerosmith's "Love In An Elevator" opens with scene of the band walking through a department store and running into a hot employee coming out of the elevator: "Second floor, hardware, children's wear, lady's lingerie. Oh, good morning Mr. Tyler... going down?" (the "ding" followed by announcement also preceded the song on Pump, but is usually cut in compilations and such) | |
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"Bad": The setup establishes that Michael's character is an inner-city youth who was able to attend a private school, and when he returns to his old neighborhood, his former gangmates want him to prove he's still tough. When he cannot bring himself to rob an old man in the subway, the resultant challenge from the leader leads into the song; the full-length version ends with the leader accepting that he's still tough, but in a way that does not require violence to prove it. Keep in mind that this video is 18 minutes long and the song takes up a good five on its own. "Weird Al" Yankovic parodies the setup in a much-condensed manner in "Fat", to the point that it's not trimmed for time. |
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