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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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I never yven noticed the bit at the end with the Ark of the Covenant

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