New R.E.M. Video - "Man-Sized Wreath"
In their video for Accelerate track "Man-Sized Wreath," R.E.M. ups the production value from their recent Vincent Moon clips to a computer animated world of heavy-hand political statement -- video game oil men, Tiananmen Square references, and billboard-sized shots of the lyrics telling us to do something or other about this or that. The video was made by the appropriately named Toronto-based advertising agency Crush, Inc., who also handled "Hollow Man." As Stipe told the Associated Press last month, "The music video is a dead medium so I didn't want to go to that industry to create a piece." So, instead, he went to a worse industry.
The band previewed snippets from it at a Madison Square Garden show last month, but now that you have the whole storyline, it probably makes even less sense. Better, more human video treatment for the same basic message.
Posted at 11:00 AM by brandon in Video
Tags: R.E.M.
code monkeys?
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damn, that michael stipe must be picking all of the ladies out of the front row
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Why isn't Living Well Is The Best Revenge a single yet? It should have been the first single. They may have said Man Sized Wreath was saved from being a b-side, but that didn't mean it should have been an a-side.
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