Friday, February 15, 2008

Rumer Willis Is A Star...Of Lame Music Videos



Some lame-ass band made a video with Edward Furlong and Rumer Willis in it. Rumer's only there for about a second which is good because if she were on-screen any longer it might break your monitor.

Actually, I don't want to talk about either Rumer or Edward - I want to discuss something else in this video: the band's use of Holocaust footage. I have a big problem any time stuff like that is used in anything other than serious documentaries, and even then it makes me queasy. I just don't think it's right for asshole rock bands who are trying to make themselves seem deep to take film of real people suffering and dying and stick it in their pretentious, junky self-promotional clips. "Oh, we're making profound statements about the human condition." No asshat - you're a rock band. You play dumb, loud music so that you can get laid. There's nothing even remotely substantive about anything you have to say. And no, using real footage of atrocity does not make you come across edgy and cool - it makes you come across callous and exploitative and self-important in the extreme. I realize the footage is grainy and black and white and all that stuff happened a long time ago so now it's almost become abstract - but it was still a nightmare for real people, and you have no right to transform these records of their suffering into fodder for your dimwit visual musing. Get over yourselves you bombastic no-talent fucks.