Back to the 1980s

  398. I Am Somebody - Glen Jones.   Sep 14 by  gsorhus Some people buy a big and fat car, others invest in houses.  Some buy expensive and nice suits others focus on hair products.  Still others go for intense muscle pumping, extreme competitions, fat skiing, cycling, professional cleverness or blogging.  They all want to show that they are something.  Glen Jones, on the other hand, is not a modest guy and is not content to say it indirectly.  On the other hand, he sings it straight out on a single he probably thinks is the hit of the times.  Ironically, few of us today know who he is, so we must consider his statement as a statement rather than a truth.  However, he must be right that he is literally right.  He's someone. The learned circles are somewhat divided as to why he had this need to mark his pondus. However, they are all gathered in the background for this outbreak. Glen Jones, like many other disco singers, began his car...

  Sorry this song should have been a cleaner pop hit than "An Englishman In New York" . This is the neat wedding cake music video of this song that should have existed in 1988, not the messy original music video where the images increase and decrease in both blue skies and red sunset skies. That's what Godley & Creme should have done in the past since that year.

                        FROM WIKIPEDIA: Godley & Creme were an English rock duo composed of Kevin Godley and Lol Creme. The pair began releasing albums as a duo after splitting from the rock band 10cc. In 1979 they directed their first music video for the single "An Englishman in New York". After this, they became involved in the production of videos for such artists as Ultravox, The Police, Yes, Duran Duran, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Wang Chung, as well as directing the ground-breaking video for their 1985 single "Cry".

 My fact is the original morphing is awful with too many changing close-up faces, which is not watchable, so The Battered Version I created myself the American way is better. Here is the original: For my music video, I am having a girl lip sync to a guy singing. I have researched on the web and the only example of this that I could find was Godley & Creme's song, Cry. In this video you see several people, male and female, changing back and forth of them lip syncing. This is what I want to do, but not exactly in the same way. Above is one example of a woman lip syncing. And then, straight after there's an effect and then a guys face pops up.

  Artist: Godley and Creme Album: The History Mix Volume 1 Video: Watch it  here . This is from the video sharing website Daily Motion.  The MTV Top 100 kicked off with this distraught man, jowls quivering and chins jiggling. This video freaked me out when I saw it. I changed the channel as fast as I could, which back then probably involved sprinting across the room and turning a knob. Kevin Godley and Lol Crème were among the founders of 10cc, most famous for the 1975 hit “I’m Not In Love”. They broke up in the late 80s. Actually though, this video was cutting edge for 1985. It uses a technique called "analog cross-fading" to blend faces into one another. This foreshadows the digital morphing used in Michael Jackson’s 1991 video, “Black Or White”. The entire video consists of faces, most of them trippy looking, singing along with the lyrics. Why is everybody so melancholy? Also, is that Mr. T at 00:46?

In my continuing series dredging up some 1980s music videos that I at least find intriguing, artistic and cool, I give you Godley and Creme's "Cry" A still from Godley and Creme's "Cry" music video from the 1980s It's a simple video, but mesmerizing. In it, against a plain black backdrop, you see the faces of various people, one morphing into another, then another, then another, on and on. All of the people are singing the song.  Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, the two singers, appear repeatedly interspersed with the rest of the people that appear in the video. The morphing technique in the video was considered incredibly innovative and a major filming breakthrough when the video came out in the mid 1980s. What I love is the wide variety of people in the video, as if the makers randomly picked people off the street as the rather mournful song plods along.There's a lot of archeotypes, like a guy who looks like Mr T., another who looks like Freddie Mercu...