Fall To Pieces Video

[fallenangel]

Anyone seen it yet? Since school hasn't started yet, I haven't seen it on VH1, but you can watch it HERE. My thoughts...

Great video. Nice to see one that was shot well with [i]some[/i] attention paid to camera work, color, lighting, etc. Not quite as good as Slither when it comes to mood and atmosphere, but it was shot to look like the old Starwood, which is cool.

PROS:

~ All the guys look great. Even with some big names giving them a guaranteed amount of popularity, it's still really important they don't look like "some pathetic old dudes playing rock star". Duff almost looks better [i]now[/i] than he did in Guns. He looks...smart and awake and like he could actually form a complete sentence instead of mumbling while passing out. And he has great hair. Scott looks skinny as ever.

~ There's a nice little scene with Duff dragging Scott and holding him. Now I don't get off on the real person slash shit [i]at all[/i] (creeps me out, can't look at Nikki without picturing him boning Vince for awhile after reading any of it, bleh), but that scene is still full of Scott and Duff good-ness. Plus, I love any video that gives Duff lots of screen time, since it's severely lacking in Gn'R vids.

~ Can't leave Slash out. His hat is back. And he all around just looks cool.

~ My god, the video has a concept! A concept that suits the song! I'm all for videos that are just performance footage, and others that are entirely concept (like Motley's "You're All I Need"), but this one mixes the two well.

~ Scott doesn't have monkey-butt hair anymore! I hated his hair when they played Letterman and he'd cut it all off. Gives a guy the little monkey butt radiating from the top of their head and looks baaaaad. I can live with it not being as long as in the Slither video. Looks fine now. And he wears leather for most of the video, so fuck his hair anyway.

~ This is a video, so I don't have to comment about the song. You know what I think. So if you're thinking "God, can't you talk about anything other than how they look?". No. It's a video, and how they look is what counts because I have the record, have heard the song, and have commented about it before. Would I have chosen this as the second single? No, but it's the cleanest song they've got and made a good video. I hate videos with edited lyrics.

CONS

~ The wives are in the video. I know, I know, how horrible for me to criticize them putting in their actual wives instead of whore-for-hire video vixens, but it's a lot harder to ogle them when their real women are right there instead of knowing they're just video girls being boned for a few weeks afterwards... Scott's wife I understand, since it is a rather...personal concept for the video (and song), but still. I'll just pretend I don't know those are their wives.

~ Not the best choice of singles when it comes to representing the band. Anyone who has the album knows both Slither and Fall To Pieces don't really represent most of the other songs. Of course, all but one or two of the other songs would need some heavy editing of the lyrics, so those are out.

Overall a much better video than most of what's around these days. It looks good, sounds good, and has a point. Now I need to find a version I can download and screencap...

EDIT: sidenote - the Making the Video thing is [i]really[/i] fuckin' cool. Especially since Duff didn't want to appear on Behind The Music, new interview footage with him is much appreciated. If anyone has seen most of what he did 10-15 years ago (there was a little bit on BTM, more on their DVDs, etc.), his old footage is...uh...less than impressive. Pretty much always drunk off his ass and mumbling. And they talk to everyone n' how everyone joined the band n' all that good stuff.
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