Saturday, 17. February 2007
Topic: VIDEO - on February 17, 2007 at 11:50:00 AM CET
Hip replacement
Few people would admit it, but cinema owes a great debt to Fatboy Slim. Not to mention Bjork, the Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Air, Massive Attack, Aphex Twin and a handful of other acts. If it wasn't for the fact that, Bjork aside, the titans of trip hop and big beat were all knob-twiddling, un-photogenic, slightly nerdy blokes, we might never have had such a gaping void to fill on MTV, and thus a golden age of music video. In the past, videos were all about making their stars look athletic, rich and beautiful, preferably in slow motion. But these faceless 1990s acts just needed something clever and arty, preferably without them in it.
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