...and it does seem to apply in a sense to this blog, I am posting Eminem's new video for his song, "Love the Way You Lie" featuring Rihanna. The video is directed by Joseph Kahn, who mainly directs music videos and concert movies, but also directed the film, Torque. The video is starring Dominic Monaghan ("Lost", The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) and Megan Fox (I think everyone knows who that is). The video will be posted below, so my main question would be what do you think about these well-known film stars appearing in this music video? Especially now since the music video era seems all but dead. Do you think this could help bring music videos back to the public view?
So what do you think? Also, here is an article featuring some quotes from Monaghan about the shoot, which is more or less interesting.
I have to disagree about the death of the music video especially with all the recent success of Lady Gaga. But to stay on topic, I am not a big fan of the use of movie stars in music videos. I feel it takes away from the message the artist is trying send.
ReplyDeleteAnd in this case I don't think the stars really added much artistically, they were mainly just used to get the song exposure (which appears to be a success).
ReplyDeleteYou make a good point with Lady Gaga, she has brought exposure back to the music video. Overall, it's hard to argue (in my opinion) against the statement that music videos have taken a sharp decline in the last few years overall.