Deftones Working On New Video
The Deftones have a video for their track “Rocket Skates” in the works. The clip is currently in the editing stages and is expected to surface in the coming weeks. The song comes from the bands new album “Diamond Eyes“, which is set for a May 18th release date.
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Supposedly diamond eyes is going to be their first single, you would think they would make a video for their first single not rocket skates.
Ya it’s there band though, I wouldn’t worry about it
I wouldn’t even waste the money filming a video. What’s the point? So some people can watch it on youtube?
Today most people use youtube daily. Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance video now has 131 million views since it was uploaded last November. And her music even sucks! With general word of mouth and sites like PRP, a lot of people will watch the new ‘tones video. Hopefully it won’t be restricted outside the US.
Well Lady Gaga is pop, and of course people are going to watch it. Deftones cater to a different breed. Sure it may be nice to watch your favorite band get down in a dark, dirty, abandoned warehouse, but it’s not like the Deftones really need to promote a new album with a video. The people that listen to the Deftones already know it’s coming.
A well-made, creatively inspired music video can be consider a work of ‘art’. If this is achieved it’s hardly a waste of money. I for one, am always intrigued about how the Deftones can imagine their music in a visual sense. Would you say the way a band like Tool rely on matching music and video a waste of money?
most of the metal videos that come out nowadays are a waste of money
band playing in an abandoned parking lot + sad girl in black + forest + roses + fire = total waste of money
if you can’t afford to make a weird ass video, you shouldn’t bother.
teh Deftnoes could probably do a weird ass video. . . but knowing them, they’ll just have themselves playing while people breakdance again.
Surly,
I don’t think you can compare Tool’s artistic vision through music video’s and Deftones whatsoever. I totally agree with your point, that it’s always interesting to see the vision of a band through their music videos, it’s a direct expression of how they are trying to visually express the song in some instances. In others though, having known several artists/bands who’ve made music videos, alot of times it’s nothing more than a marketing tool based solely on money. The get several ‘treatments’ for the videos, from people who listened to the song and made up an ‘idea’ for a video. Barring of course that it’s a live video, and it’s actually artistic (In Deftones case you could say ‘Change’ was artistic, as opposed to ‘Bored’ which was primarly a performance piece). Regardless, I would have to say that for the most part music video’s have lost that artistic edge that artists like Tool, Bjork, Queens of the Stone Age, and Nine Inch Nails made so interesting, and enjoyable. Instead we are left with garbage live performance videos, with shaky camera work, and some half dressed chick covered in blood, or some dude walking through a rainy forest. If that’s what you’re into, then good on ya, if you want substance, and an actual expression of the bands musical vision shown visually, then 90% the time you’re shit out of luck.
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