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alphabet st! so i just watched this music video for the first time and let me say i love this song but the video is even better! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
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Were you trippin' or what? ![]() | |
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how was i trippn? ![]() | |
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It is the single version, which I enjoy better.
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PurpleDiamond2009 said: how was i trippn? ![]() dreadful video. Cheap, tacky & embarassing. Compare to Jill Jones' Mia Bocca video from slightly earlier to see a floaty-word video done well. blah blah blah | |
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I love that video for some reason. Sure, it's cheesily put together, but it's as fun as the song. I'll take this video over big-budget yawn-fests like Te Amo Corazon and Chocolate Box any day. If prince.org were to be made idiot proof, someone would just invent a better idiot. | |
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squirrelgrease said: I love that video for some reason. Sure, it's cheesily put together, but it's as fun as the song. I'll take this video over big-budget yawn-fests like Te Amo Corazon and Chocolate Box any day. :spit: your sig ![]() | |
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It might look like it was made 10 years earlier than it was, but it's still a great video. | |
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I agree.I like the "Alphabet St" video because of its playful simplicity.It reminds me of those early 80s videos that artists and bands made before they were given big budgets for videos.
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Co-sign ! "open your heart, open your mind
A train is leaving all day..." | |
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I agree with this, its cheap hurried quality is what makes it good. | |
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alphabet st video reminds of a sesame st skit | |
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The video looks like it was shot at a Minneapolis TV station in front of the weather man's green screen.
Weather man: "We'll get some of that Gulf Stream hot air pushing north, and temperatures will rise." Prince: "NO!"
In fact, the guy that shot the video said that it was very cheaply done in a warehouse or something against a blue screen late at night. The interview was just posted here recently. In fact, I think it was the guy himself that responded to the thread.
Here ya go: http://prince.org/msg/7/326027 See reply #77 from "mbarnard". That's the guy who shot the video. | |
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squirrelgrease said: I love that video for some reason. Sure, it's cheesily put together, but it's as fun as the song. I'll take this video over big-budget yawn-fests like Te Amo Corazon and Chocolate Box any day. cheers to that! Take it - like Clarence said:
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SoulAlive said:
cute ![]() | |
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excellent video. perfect pop song. what happened dude... | |
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Thanks for the link Ernest.
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I LOVE the Alphabet Street video!
I remember when I read per Nelson's book, he seemed to imply that the video was a hasty hack job and artistic compremise.
But I love everything about the video--the cheesy effects, the quirky song, the polkadotted shirt, the extremely gay hair tossing (admit it, Diana Ross might as well have been Telly Sivalis compared to that sexiness), the vanity shots of him slowly blinking at the camera.... GOD, I just love EVERYTHING about the video.
Prince seems to work best when the video is low budget and the entertainment factor relies on his dancing or sheer silliness. I know the Gett Off video was filmed by the same director as the Kiss video, but the stripped down Kiss video is just superior.
But I digress. The Alphabet Street Video is like a really fun upbeat, slutty raver chick who can dance all night long. Videos like Black Sweat are like that Joran Vander Sloot fella...guilty of showing up in the wrong place, doing bad things, and then disappearing with swiftness. | |
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I don't believe that is correct. Randee St. Nicholas directed "Gett Off". Rebecca Blake directed "Kiss". | |
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The video was shot by Jean-Baptiste Mondino, a french photographer and art director in advertisement, who also worked with Madonna and J.P. Gaultier... I love, it's pure fun and mirrors the musics perfectly. Mondino said that no video could show the genius of Prince music | |
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That's exactly what I said! | |
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Crack smacked apple jack! | |
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I don't think so, Mondino did the I wish you heaven video (and of course the infamous Lovesexy shot). "open your heart, open your mind
A train is leaving all day..." | |
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Mondino is a great artist, his photography is very good. I think he also shot the video for Manchild, by Nenah Cherry. | |
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Yes, he made a bunch of cool videos back in the days...Under my skin by Neneh Cherry is really something ! He worked for just anybodybody you can think of from Madonna to Jill Jones (Mia Bocca)... "open your heart, open your mind
A train is leaving all day..." | |
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One day I thought I was going down to alphabet St... turns out it was a homeless man... he was a vet. I bought him a whopper value meal. "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" | |
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I like Te Amo Corazon. I LOVE Alphabet St! Chocolate Box is not one of his better videos, imo. | |
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I love the Alphabet St. video for many reasons, one of which is that video is forever associated in my mind with the fact that I met him the day it premiered on MTV. | |
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