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    "I was watching this Kanye West video, and I couldn’t help but wonder about the future of music videos. This seems rlly different and innovative, so I’m wondering if we’re all gonna have to make music videos in ‘generic cartoon’ format instead of using video cameras. Should I return the HD camera that I obtained with a Canadian Art Grant?

    Can black people identify with sillie cartoons and ‘progressive production techniques’ now that Barry Obama is in office?

    Then I watched this KINGS OF LEON video for “Use Some Body.”
    I think this video is probably the most important video in the history of music videos. It’s what the music video format has been working towards for over 50 years. It merges every important altRock aesthetic/gimmick into one video.

    These aesthetics include:

    meaningful tour documentary
    singing into the camera and bein’ sad/meaningful
    live performance
    staged live performance
    aerial photos over meaningful city
    metaphorical stock footage
    embracing with a woman
    staged ‘candid’ shots to represent the band being true bros
    This video makes me yearn 4 more late 90s/early 2Ks uninspired altRock videos. I feel like Kings of Leon might be post-meaningfulcore, because they appeal to a new subset of fanBros who are searching for meaning, but want something ‘a little bit less indie.’ The song “Use Somebody” is a power ballad that will hopefully fuel meaningful montages at the conclusion of television series’ & sporting events.

    I feel like they are probably the first band that ’started out as indie’ but then somehow rebranded themselves as ‘mainstream altr0ck’, which now means ur going to get DCFC mainstream&alt news source coverage of them for the next 5-10 years.

    ///I //could //use//somebody///

    But srsly...will Ben Gibbard’s songs be as meaningful/humble now that he has lost a lil bit of weight?

    Would DCFC have been different if Ben Gibb had a different body type since Day 1 (i.e. the Dashboard Confessional Lil Emo Man Theory)?

    Does havin’ ‘a lil bit more meat on ur bones’ make you easier 2 identify with/get vulnerable with because you have an easily identifiable ’shortcoming’ and/or ‘insecurity’?"

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