{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Just saw the Rock the Casbah video for the first time and it\u2019s\u2026 really literal in that second-generation music video way where...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/180579495103/", "html": "

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Just saw the Rock the Casbah video for the first time and it\u2019s\u2026 really literal in that second-generation music video way where they\u2019re like \u201cwe need something more than just a filmed stage performance, let\u2019s act out the lyrical themes in the most obvious way\u201d

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Like it\u2019s an Arab sheikh and a Hasidic Jew driving a convertible around Texas, going to the gas station and dancing their way to the concert, intercut with the band in camo performing the song in front of a nodding donkey, when they get to the \u201cjet fighters\u201d bit they just have footage of like Dassault warplanes cruising around

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I like music videos where they painfully act out the lyrics and it\u2019s cringey as fuck, gives me a warm glowy feeling

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Oh you\u2019ll like this, it turned out it had been ripped from the 80s Australian overnight music video show \u201cRage\u201d, which apparently used the same typewriter font as the first Garbage album

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(After that the second Garbage album, \u201cVersion 2.0\u201d, used a font that evoked Chicago, the system default for the just-then-released Mac OS 8, a visual joke basically no one got)

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that doesn\u2019t sound right, didn\u2019t MacOS drop Chicago for version 8?

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Ah shit Charcoal, got them mixed up

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