Sunday, 18 September 2011

Research: 100 Greatest Music Video's - #87 Talking Heads, Once in a Lifetime



This video, co directed by Toni Basil, was very important in the development of music video's as This artist was the first to use 'abstract movements'. The lead singer David Byrne personally looked and explored for different types of abstract themes. The video appears very simple and it gives the impression that David Byrne is being controlled as if he is a puppet. The video also fits the song. He got most of his inspiration from the UCLA were he observed people in trances. This was video was also the first music video to be exhibited as art when it was exhibited at the New York Museum of Art.

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