{"id":452,"date":"2008-10-18T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2008\/10\/18\/literal-videos-awesome-entertainment\/"},"modified":"2008-10-18T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T06:30:00","slug":"literal-videos-awesome-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"Literal Videos = Awesome Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s fun is an 80’s flashback with a twist: Literal reinterpretations of classic music videos. With the help of a couple friends on back-up vocals, animator\/singer Dustin McLean has taken two music videos that are well-known to members of my generation and rewritten the songs’ original lyrics to be literal, play-by-play accounts of what’s happening on screen. The bonus for those of us book-obsessed folks? Both of the Literal Videos McLean has so far produced have a library\/books\/comics theme. Totally radical!<\/p>\n

Thanks to Lady Faces<\/a> for calling these to my attention!<\/p>\n

First, the Literal Video version of the Tears for Fears tune "Head Over Heels." (You can compare it with the original<\/a> on YouTube.)<\/p>\n

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Next, the Literal Video version of A-Ha’s "Take on Me." (Again, you can also compare with the original<\/a> on YouTube.)<\/p>\n


Rock on, readers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s fun is an 80’s flashback with a twist: Literal reinterpretations of classic music videos. With the help of a couple friends on back-up vocals, animator\/singer Dustin McLean has taken two music videos that are well-known to members of my generation and rewritten the songs’ original lyrics to be literal, play-by-play accounts of what’s happening on screen. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}