Demea wrote:
I saw a bit of Arcade Fire at Lollapalooza this year, and a few months ago on The Daily Show (?), and I can honestly say that I just don't get it. Their songs have no real structure or theme, either individually or collectively, and the lyrics just plain don't make sense. Most of their music just sounds like continuous, amorphous sound.
I realize this makes me sound simultaneously like an old @#%^ and an indie rock hater (incidentally, I'm both), but I honestly don't see how people can legitimately enjoy this group.
Cue the angsty teens and their angsty angst.
They first came to my attention a couple years ago when I heard the song Intervention. I still like that song, but their music for the most part is nothing special. They've gotten very popular recently.
This is all about the interactive video though. Has ANYONE been able to watch it?
A spoiler: The video uses google maps, streetview and arial to personalize the video. But it also uses 'window frames' in a collagey - artsy sort of way. The birds are my favorite part.
Oh, I use Chrome both at work and at home. In fact, I thought of this because one of my co-workers was questioning how it was that I got to use chrome (I dl'ed it). I didn't ask, but after I'd been using it awhile, my IT guy admitted he too used it though warned me that it wasn't supported by the company....lol, like IE is. There are a couple work apps that I have to switch to IE for.
Edited, Sep 16th 2010 7:57pm by Elinda