[0:18] Sick! Probably the most dissonant BBC has ever gotten.
[0:21] Oh, it was this fuccboi conductor who interfered.
[0:28] How is anyone supposed to read their sheet music in this lighting?
[0:32] Here, as before, all orchestra parts appear to correspond precisely to their race/gender stereotypes.
[0:44] How did Elton attract all these butterflies? Did he coat his blazer in honey??? Some Alexander McQueen shit!
[0:46] Lorde’s vocal style — a ’10s trend for which there is as yet no term — really grates on me. Like her voice is “good,” clearly, but she’s sort of bending it to fit into this weird mold with all these specific ways of pronouncing the words, sounding seductively hoarse at just the “right” moment, and filling it out at other moments, just like the vocal instructor said to do.
[0:50] A few weeks ago I saw a headline in the New York Post referencing “J. Law Nudes” which had surfaced. For days, I walked around thinking there were nudes of Jude Law that had somehow gotten out, but it turns out they were of a similarly named female whose name escapes me at present.
[0:59] Finally we see Brian Wilson, who ironically (and to his credit) seems the most out of place out of anyone in this video.
[1:08] Now I’m starting to wonder how many other aspects of this video were cribbed from a Flaming Lips live set?
[1:30] This wannabe Hives member gets stuck with the “La, la, la” line.
[1:48] Another deeply disturbing trend, alt-bro vocalists who give each other exhaustively rehearsed looks while hitting a certain note or delivering a complex line. This clip should be printed, frame by frame, in the textbook that the next bunch of strapping young lads is made to read once these guys turn 30 and are replaced by the next big thing. The more conservatively dressed of the two gives the other a chummy, satisfied, look, as though he’s playing off of the other’s voice in real time. The other, shown here on our left, is more bohemian, and as such he closes his eyes immediately upon reciprocating the glance, too caught up in the moment (one line in a large-scale BBC production 60s cover) to keep them open.
[1:50] BBC gives electronic music a shout-out lasting all of one second.
[2:25] Somehow this mantra feels way more existentially bleak when Dave Grohl says it.
[2:38] Feedback rings out, in tacky contrast to the original version as well as the one just performed.
[2:42] A meaningless phrase: “FOR THE LOVE OF MUSIC,” coupled with a meaningless image (feather slowly falling on piano key).
“God Only Knows” how many millions of pounds could have been spent on feeding the hungry, better schools, homeless shelters… anything else, but this video! Oh, and BBC just began BBC Music.
• BBC Music: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music