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Day by Day: A video parody of the '80s
Sat, 15 Jul 2006

(This ones for you, The Tux) Some would say the '80s disembowel themselves, but I'd still say they were good times, though they featured the origin of the angst-filled music video. Really, no video of the decade was complete without this scene - I think The Killers ought to do it:

Black and white - a solitary figure with shockingly blonde hair strolls through the rain; his hair is tussled and runs down into his face, his tears rolling into his eyes unseen due to the rain. Thunder rolls and he pulls his wet shirt close for some warmth, but he stumbles to reveal that his soul cannot be warmed further.

It must be serious, since the street lights are reflecting in the wet asphalt, and its black and white. It continues..

The figure spies a telephone booth (it was the 80s, we had them still) and tumbles in. His fingers tremble as he dials the buttons to call his presumably ex-girlfriend; half through he slams the receiver down, but his resolve melts and he dials again. This time you hear the brrrp-brrp of ringing but when she (he?) picks up, the phone is slammed down. Hard.

You see, the phone symbolizes his whole world. Videos, you know? Continuing..

As the phone strikes, the phone contraption shatters into shards of glass. Zoom out, and the phone booth shatters; zoom out, the nearby buildings shatter (like glass, not like buildings.) Zoom out, the city shatters - the country - the landmass - lastly, the earth itself.. to hammer home that the phone call was his whole world

Get it? hah hah.. yeah, that was the 80s music video :)

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