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

[catya.livejournal.com]

i'm reminded that no i really haven't watched tv in the 90s or later!

Did you see the Time Warp star trek one? Or the crazy vampires one to this song?

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

No no no! I haven't!

[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)

[lhn.livejournal.com]

Having the necessary musicotelevisual background to appreciate it, I thought it was very well-done. (JMS did return to some visual effects pretty often, didn't he "Bright eyes", heh.)

[nitouche.livejournal.com]

I'm a little disturbed that this turned up *twice* on my friends page this morning...

[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. :-)

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

Oh man. I've seen better-done vids, but that...just reminded me what a good show that was. Sigh.

[khedron.livejournal.com]

Hey! There are spoilers in there!

Just kidding. Nice. If you didn't watch the show, then lyrics like this probably don't stand out to you quite as much:

Your love is like a shadow on me all of the time

Ha. Never noticed that in the song.

[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...)

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Ha. They're only spoilers if you know what you're looking at.

And they used the scene with the original Ann Sheridan. Bad, bad editors. Melissa Gilbert was the only TRUE Anne Sheridan.

[bridgetminerva.livejournal.com]

wow that says it in a nutshell doesn't it.

[jss]

"Anna."

[catya.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfx8Nc6VKnI

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

I wondered if anyone would catch that. ;-P

[jss]

You actually wondered? With the number of geeks around here I would've been positive someone would've; I'm just surprised I was first.

And nobody yet's identified Beth Toussaint as Johnny's original [sic] wife.

[annaoj.livejournal.com]

Huh! The vid looks like it was mastered with no footage later than season 3--and possibly no footage later than the middle of season 3. And the footage did not come from the DVD (which is letterboxed) (It may have come from the Columbia House tapes, because there's no corner bugs). Which would mean it was quite possibly made before Melissa Gilbert showed up as Anna Sheridan!

Of course, I could certainly be misremembering what season some of the footage came from...

[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]

What was with the angel-ish thing towards the end? It looked cribbed from The Abyss.

[jss]

The answer to that question is a major spoiler for the first two seasons of Babylon 5. If you're reading this in LJ comment email and don't want to be spoiled, STOP NOW. If you're reading this on LJ and want to be spoiled, it's white-on-white text you can highlight to read:

The angel-ish thing is the [perception of] Kosh, the secretive Vorlon ambassador, whose race programmed many other races, including humans, to recognize them as angels.

[mizarchivist]

Yeah, it totally was.

[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).

[harimad.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[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.