6/3/09
I assume by now many of you have seen this video:
...along with many of the other "literal" music videos, some of which are plodding, others quite brilliant. But doesn't everybody remember that Asia made its own Literal Video for the song "Heat of the Moment" in 1982, without even realizing it?
I mean, for "Heat" they show a fire, and for "Moment" they show a clock. Sometimes "Heat" is an actual firebrand that says "HEAT". At the time, I was 14, and I remember thinking that this was literally the stupidest goddamn video I'd ever seen.
Posted by Ian Williams at June 3, 2009 11:20 PMThose literal videos can be great -- as in the "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" or awful, like the Radiohead one.
That Asia video isn't technically a literal video in the same sense -- they keyed the visual to the lyric, instead of the other way around.
I must say that song has a great verse, and a really fucking awful chorus.