"Official Lyric Video"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvvamodXZbw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjIjKT1QfQE

two great tastes that taste great together:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjCbGHI_4Hs

lol shit I posted one on FB today :( Last resort only when other non-live version not available.

Worst trend

After careful deliberation and the consultation of a panel of experts, Cee-Lo Green.

FFM iirc you posted a fan-made lyrics video, which is different than this

how can you hate cee-lo green?

cee-lo green is the soul machine.

i don't know how you can even get angry about this stuff tbh. they're stupid but they also serve a purpose even if you don't like them, since now it gives labels an excuse to have an official youtube for a song that a real video hasn't been filmed for yet, so if you want to listen to that song you're not hunting through a bunch of youtubes uploaded by fans that get taken down or speeded up or muted or whatever.

the Cee-Lo lyrics video was >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the later video

CONTENT

sic otm

whiney is this really THE WORST TREND you can think of, of all the trends in the internet or the music industry or whatever right now?

I knew Whiney would have my back on this one.

I just hate anything that reeks this much of music industry attention-seeking. Also these videos are complete garbage + irritating to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXUae9uE7J0

I guess it doesn't help that most of these songs/lyrics are pretty awful to begin with

(though I don't have a problem w/that Wale song)

if you don't think a song called "lotus flower bomb" has awful lyrics then

I like them only because the YouTube preview still/thumb gives me all kinds of ideas about the song so I never have to listen to it, for example I am now assuming that Derulo's new single interpolates "I'll Melt With You" and "La Bamba."

whiney is this really THE WORST TREND you can think of, of all the trends in the internet or the music industry or whatever right now?
--prettyliketynandelong (some dude)

No the worst trend is Internet pedants who don't understand hyperbole

if you don't think a song called "lotus flower bomb" has awful lyrics then

― some dude, Sunday, November 6, 2011 6:51 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

the WORST TREND EVER is people for whom hyperbole is their only means of communication YOU HORRIBLE MONSTER

kind of long for a lyric video for every loutallica song

i don't know how you can even get angry about this stuff tbh. they're stupid but they also serve a purpose even if you don't like them, since now it gives labels an excuse to have an official youtube for a song that a real video hasn't been filmed for yet, so if you want to listen to that song you're not hunting through a bunch of youtubes uploaded by fans that get taken down or speeded up or muted or whatever.

this

though honestly i'm surprised record companies would rather point out your average pop lyric than just post the song with a lovely photo of their 360-deal artist

there's an awesome gif of a glowing, flying "eh" hiding in that derulo one for some enterprising soul

haha I have plenty of problems w/the lyrics to "Lotus Flower Bomb" but the song itself is fine

this is seriously just one more worthless step in reducing bands to a stream of CONTENT THAT HAS TO HAVE VIRAL ENERGY as opposed to an entity who releases a good song. I have publicist pitching me the privlege of premiering these things now

this is seriously just one more worthless step in reducing bands to a stream of CONTENT THAT HAS TO HAVE VIRAL ENERGY as opposed to an entity who releases a good song. I have publicist pitching me the privlege of premiering these things now

when Drake was on SNL a few weeks ago he had this whole 'lyrics video' type screen behind him projecting the words of the song, and it had mad typos in it

yeah i dunno how this is something worth getting mad about. pop stars being pushed as product rather than artistes by multninational corporations shock horror.

"if i wanted to read, i'd go to school."

xpost cool what multinational corporation puts out patrick wolf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boyl6Iaw2Y4&feature=player_embedded#!

if i listened to that bullshit id know the answer to your question but even then probably not

also up until now this thread has mostly featured hot indie artists like jason derulo and chad kroeger's nickelback so

PEDANT TIME

patrick wolf's latest album is released by a subsidiary of mercury records which is a subsidiary of universal music group

/PEDANT TIME

tbh every band in the world becoming OKGO and making stupid 'high concept' music videos pisses me off way more than this stuff

also honestly whenever i pull up youtube to listen to a song the tab gets clicked off pretty quick and the song plays in the background and its not as if i spend those four minutes staring wistfully at a picture of roxette so these videos can feature spinning goatses for all i care.

yeah this also

yeah i dunno how this is something worth getting mad about. pop stars being pushed as product rather than artistes by multninational corporations shock horror.

worth getting mad about, probably not. but do I get mad about pop stars being pushed as product? absolutely. it's cultural junk food. get it the fuck away.

this is seriously just one more worthless step in reducing bands to a stream of CONTENT THAT HAS TO HAVE VIRAL ENERGY as opposed to an entity who releases a good song.

OTM

did the spirit of andy rooney violently inhabit your body recently?

it was strangely more erotic than violent

I've just been jaded since I spent that drunk weekend w/ppl who only wanted to listen to LMFAO

this is seriously just one more worthless step in reducing bands to a stream of CONTENT THAT HAS TO HAVE VIRAL ENERGY as opposed to an entity who releases a good song. I have publicist pitching me the privlege of premiering these things now

― Youth Ya Goon (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, November 6, 2011 5:20 PM (1 hour ago)

so do people actually watch these things, or is just so that the thing is in the youtube format because lots of people listen to music that way?

i've been spending the last half hour mulling possible "goatse rock anthem" jokes but i think in the endvim just gonna throw it out there

like i would be blissfully ignorant of spinning goatses unless someone on facebook posted the video saying "omg spinning goatses at 1:45!" or something -- i don't really watch the videos

mostly I just hate the literalness of the form and the lame flashy effects

what do they do during instrumental breaks? is it like karaoke?

it's like "not only are we going to mix the vocals dry and way up front in the mix, we are also going to make this limp-dicked "whoa-oh-oh" FLY @ U FACE"

I've just been jaded since I spent that drunk weekend w/ppl who only wanted to listen to LMFAO

I envy you tbh. I spent a drunk weekend dealing with people getting smirky about Coldplay.

a "whoa-oh-oh" flying @ u face forever

http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/er/bob-dylan-homesick-blues-video-082809-xlg.jpg

^ the original perpetrator

lol

staring wistfully at a picture of roxette

I have never changed my display name on ILX but today, I am sorely tempted.

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how does anybody feel about these now? they rack up MASSIVE views I'm told and labels pitch them to artists obviously the appeal is partly "we don't have to spend a fuckload on a video" but they've really managed to get a foothold in the past year or two I feel like. like the metal labels who still send me promos are always sending me links to Official Lyric Videos and it feels like this has upticked recently

i still hate them!

i think i'm the only person who hates them this much though

i don't really like these but they're not nearly as bad as music videos with long (anything over like 10 seconds) intros before the song starts which are my biggest music video pet peeve.

if they're visually creative they can be fine, if they're just gonna be the text overlaid on some generic images/video clips, i'd rather just have a static image of the album cover and save bandwidth

I hate them much more clear-headedly than when this thread was started. if you watch one for a song you like it can actually ruin it - big underline and highlighter emphasis on every! ☆SINGLE☆ >>>> Word. really destructive to a song.

they seem both weirdly against the process of listening to a song as it normally works and against the process of reading a printed lyric as it actually works

i have never seen one for metal, i suppose it would save me a trip to dark lyrics dot com

xp otm

a "whoa-oh-oh" flying @ u face forever

― sarahel, Sunday, November 6, 2011 10:09 PM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

music videos with long (anything over like 10 seconds) intros before the song starts
they are indeed the worst

these are pretty useless, what's next, official music videos made entirely from anime clips?

music industry is entirely out of ideas

I'm assuming this still cost less than yr average pop video but still weird how blown out these have become

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgbxDu_mDs8