David Dean Burkhart, a fan of Ra Ra Riot, recently made his own video for “Beta Love,” the dance-poppy title track from the band’s new album, by editing together footage from a local 1980s Bay Area UHF show called Dance Party. The band liked his work enough to make it the official video, and I’m not surprised. Those fuzzy images work as a monument to the timeless spectacle of giddy teenage awkwardness. Watch it below.
Beta Love is out now on Barsuk.
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This Burkhart guy already did this same concept for Twin Shadow’s “Five Seconds” last year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DntpTDrXLdc
His VHS shtick kinda runs dry after you look through his Vimeo and see he’s done this for a lot of the videos he’s put together. I’m surprised he didn’t cop my Hampton Beach karaoke “Into the Groove” clip off YouTube a few weeks back.
Why so serious?
I didn’t really like the rest of the album but this song is damn catchy. I can see it being used in movies for the next year or two.
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’87 Barack?