turn around, bright eyes

[topaz]

Thanks to yesthattom  for turning this one up. This is really one of the more clever mashup videos I've seen. If you either watched TV in the 1990s or listened to music in the 1980s -- like, ever -- you really should watch this.

I never watched a single episode of Babylon 5 and I still thought this was awesome, fwiw.

Comments

[dbang.livejournal.com]

I think you need to have listened to music in the 80s AND watched TV in the 90s. I know the song, and I know the video that this mashup was parodying, but all the TV references were utterly lost on me. Must be some science fiction thing -- Bab5? (Which I've never seen)

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Maybe you need to have watched TV to get it. I've never seen Babylon 5 either and I thought it was a very clever use of video anyway. :-)

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Trust one who's seen Bab 5 -- all of it-- many times. OMG that was FABULOUS!!

(I'm going to have to post this one, i think...)

[mizarchivist]

Yeah, it totally was.

[harimad.livejournal.com]

I could see it was well-done; I imagine I would have enjoyed it if I'd ever watched the show. And thanks to qwrrty for pointing out this was Babylon 5.

[harimad.livejournal.com]

PS - I've been having flashbacks for days even before I saw the video. And the strangest urge to watch the show (in my nonexistent free time, of course) (right after Firefly).

[laura47.livejournal.com]

what video was this parodying?

also, i don't consider this a mashup, because it only uses one song and one video sourse. that's just a fanvid, not a mashup in my world. :-)

[dbang.livejournal.com]

The original Bonnie Tyler video for this song. This whole mashup or whatever is modeled after the original Total Eclipse of the Heart video. (Which was one of my FAVORITES in high school.)

[laura47.livejournal.com]

i'll have to go watch that. i do love that song so. i'm karaoke-ing on friday and have called dibs on singing it.

[harimad.livejournal.com]

The one placed in a boy's English-style boarding school? I checked it out - the pedophilia implications are creepy and the montages uninteresting/out of place. Was this ever considered cool?

Perhaps I should watch other videos from the time. I don't remember being fond of any - I'm not sure I even saw any - so I'd be watching them de novo, just as with TEotH.

Suggestions welcome.

[dbang.livejournal.com]

*shrug* Yes, it was considered cool. 80s videos were a style. "out of place" is a strange criticism -- they were generally series of interesting images, only occasionally tied to some storyline. If you don't like or aren't familiar with the genre I'm not sure "TEotH" isn't necessarily the one to start with. I liked it because I loved the song and the eerie imagery and the glowing eyes and I was 12 years old.

[harimad.livejournal.com]

I still like the song - good thing since it's been my earbug for a week. "Out of place" did mean the images were only occasionally tied to the storyline. And if they weren't tied to the storyline then they must have been cool or it was a really bad video. Not knowing what was a cool video then I had to ask which it was. Now I know, thank you.