Following up on their tribute to Donnie Darko late last year, awkwardly punctuated Idolator faves The Academy Is… continue their “sync up our emo-ish songs to footage from emo-ish movies” trend with a tribute video honoring Cameron Crowe’s love song to Led Zeppelin, Almost Famous. Some 17-year-old is going to probably going to post a similar, yet not-as-well-edited, clip to a video site eventually, so why not beat them to the punch? This time, the synced track is the song with the nearly painful to type title “After The Last Midtown Show.” Clip after the jump. MORE »
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The Academy Is… Pay Tribute To A Movie That’s A Tribute To Something, I Think
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The Academy Is… Finally Give In, Become A Tribute-Video Act
The Academy Is… irritate me to no end when I’m forced to add the ellipsis to their name for accuracy, but I’m willing to let it go considering how much I’ve enjoyed their album Fast Times at Barrington High this year. Still, something’s been missing. Something that would tie the occasionally angsty teen-rock lyrics of the band with the popular films that seem to inspire the band; something that would summarize one of those films to spare me the trouble of watching it again. YouTube, you always come through. MORE »
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Ace Of Base: They’re Back, And They’re Buying Vowels
A reunion tour and a forthcoming greatest-hits album have seemingly revitalized the Swedish pop outfit Ace Of Base, who announced yesterday that they’re putting out a new album sometime in 2009, and reworked their early track “Wheel Of Fortune” into the brittle, yet delightful “Wheel Of Fortune 2009.” Not only is this news pretty exciting for a slow-ass Tuesday morning, it’s an excuse to post “The Sign,” which I’ve placed after the jump! MORE »
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Idolator’s Tribute-Video Treasury Can’t Quit You
At their best, tribute videos–like trailers–are about emotional manipulation. Through a combination of music and carefully selected clips, they twist your senses until you’re almost convinced that you actually care about ER characters or even evil sharks. Given that, it’s no surprise that there’s a bounty of Brokeback Mountain videos that employ aggressive emotional exploitation tactics. Two of these tributes stand above the rest. In a bout of tragic genius someone–with a fondness for anime–came so very close to perfection, but ultimately failed… big time. Join me after the jump for tent sex, Eiffel 65, “Landslide,” and, unfortunately, Billy Corgan. MORE »
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Idolator’s Tribute-Video Treasury Has Its Night In Court With Huey Lewis
Do you believe in: a) the sheer animal magnetism of John Larroquette in a three-piece suit, b) situation comedy, c) the power of a tribute video to make you feel complete, d) love? If you answered “all of the above,” join me after the jump. MORE »
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Idolator’s Tribute Video Treasury Returns To Steal From The Rich And Give To The Poor
Once again, Idolator intern Kate Richardson scours the video sites, looking for the best fan-made music videos. In this installment, she tries to see if Bryan Adams or Richard Ashcroft is a more appropriate foil for Disney’s animated adapation of the classic tale Robin Hood: MORE »
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Animoto Edits Your Crappy “Lost” Tribute Videos So You Don’t Have To
“Welcome to the end of slideshows,” declares the subtitle on Animoto’s press kit. The site, which launched last August and just got some funding from Amazon, allows users to upload photos, choose audio from Animoto’s library or their own computer, throw these elements into a slick virtual crock pot, and come up with an automatically produced “music video” that’s more like a fancy slide show. The concept is very similar to what we know all too well as tribute videos–except there’s even less skill and artistry required, as there is no actual editing involved at all. As the resident expert in both tribute videos and stupid Internet shit, I took it upon myself to test out the service and see what it could do with some of the odds and ends in my Photobucket account and an English New Wave classic. MORE »
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YouTube Lets Sigur Ròs Be Weird All Over Its Front Page For 24 Hours
If you’ve been on YouTube today, you may have noticed that the front page is curiously devoid of videos like “Todd’s Oscars rant” and “Monkey eats cheese.” Instead, Iceland’s second-most-famous weirdo musicians, Sigur Ròs, have taken over the site for the day, and anyone can watch their tour documentary Heima in its entirety (for free!). They’ve also selected ten fan-made videos submitted to the Minn Heima contest to be featured on the front page. Most of the videos use leftover footage from Heima, but at least one out of ten Sigur Ròs fans is going to be artsy enough to dabble in stop-motion animation. Let’s review a few of the more notable entires. MORE »
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Idolator’s Tribute-Video Treasury Finds The Video To End All Videos
I’ve seen a lot of odd combinations on the tribute-video beat, but recently I found what I believe to be officially the Weirdest Thing on YouTube. It’s a confluence of cultural elements so incongruent, so entirely bizarre that I am not exaggerating when I say it causes me physical pain. Never has a musical soundtrack been put to such shocking ends, not even when the Phantom of the Opera paid tribute to Keiko the Orca whale. Brace yourselves: This one involves Dom DeLuise. And anime. MORE »
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Kelly Clarkson Fans Fight Clive Davis With Rudimentary Understanding Of Editing Software
In light of what they see as Clive Davis’s neglect toward the promotion of Kelly Clarkson’s My December, the Kelly Clarkson Express–a group that sounds like it should serve as a dual-purpose fan club for the first American Idol and trains–has put together a video for the song “How I Feel,” which its members think should be the next single. This is but one facet of the How I Feel Project, a campaign to get the song played on the radio, or maybe very quietly in the background of an MTV show. While strong fan support is essential when you’re a pop star being ignored by one of the world’s most powerful music bigwigs, that devotion can come with a price–and in this case, that price is a well-intentioned but sadly incompetent tribute video. MORE »
