Aquarium
Last week I wrote in length about the covers of The Two Towers. You didn’t know what you were getting yourself into, did you?
This week I’m going to write briefly about a music lyric video. Which I will also share below, so you’ll know what I’m talking about and you’ll know what kind of music I like. Nothing says more about a person than their taste in music.
The styles of music I listen to most often are cinematic instrumental (a.k.a. music that sounds like it would be from an epic fantasy film, or literally just Howard Shore’s Lord of the Rings score on repeat), symphonic power metal, pagan folk music, gothic rock, or as a general rule anything written before 1990 is acceptable.
The video I’m going to share is of a song called Aquarium from Dark Sarah’s album The Puzzle. I believe Dark Sarah is classified as cinematic metal? All of the Dark Sarah albums follow a story, but it’s not pertinent to know to enjoy the music.
As far as professional lyric videos go I don’t know if I can say if it’s good or bad. It’s hard to read sometimes which I guess defeats the purpose of a lyric video? But it’s also not strictly a lyric video either because everything else about it, the colors, the shaky movement, the drowning bodies and eyes in the background, are helping to tell the story.
It’s also very disorienting with the sound off.
If the video’s purpose was to add visual weight to the song and reinforce it’s themes then I think it was accomplished. If it was to merely clarify the words for the listener then it over did it when any fan-made lyric video would do.
That being said I like it, and I can’t wait until I have the know-how to make my own visually intense music lyric videos.
This week I’m going to write briefly about a music lyric video. Which I will also share below, so you’ll know what I’m talking about and you’ll know what kind of music I like. Nothing says more about a person than their taste in music.
The styles of music I listen to most often are cinematic instrumental (a.k.a. music that sounds like it would be from an epic fantasy film, or literally just Howard Shore’s Lord of the Rings score on repeat), symphonic power metal, pagan folk music, gothic rock, or as a general rule anything written before 1990 is acceptable.
The video I’m going to share is of a song called Aquarium from Dark Sarah’s album The Puzzle. I believe Dark Sarah is classified as cinematic metal? All of the Dark Sarah albums follow a story, but it’s not pertinent to know to enjoy the music.
As far as professional lyric videos go I don’t know if I can say if it’s good or bad. It’s hard to read sometimes which I guess defeats the purpose of a lyric video? But it’s also not strictly a lyric video either because everything else about it, the colors, the shaky movement, the drowning bodies and eyes in the background, are helping to tell the story.
It’s also very disorienting with the sound off.
If the video’s purpose was to add visual weight to the song and reinforce it’s themes then I think it was accomplished. If it was to merely clarify the words for the listener then it over did it when any fan-made lyric video would do.
That being said I like it, and I can’t wait until I have the know-how to make my own visually intense music lyric videos.
“It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.”J.R.R. Tolkien
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