Ooh, thank you for this! I love a) vidding nerdery and b) this vid in particular.
When I am deliberately looking for a song, I'll put together a playlist of songs or albums with a certain kind of sound and then listen for the right lyrics; sometimes I'll search for songs by keyword, but that's not as successful.
I agree, the sound of music is very important to me when watching a vid, partly because I don't parse lyrics very well on first exposure (and I can't be sitting there reading the lyrics, there's a vid to watch! *g*), so I'll often just get the feel and a few key lines - but then I rewatch vids like crazy, and usually the ones that grabbed me on the first watch reward me even more when I get familiar with the lyrics, because the vidder understands how to storytell. And vice versa - if there's too much of a tone/genre mismatch, it can kick me out of the experience no matter how apt the lyrics are! (Like, I'm more willing to accept a song that doesn't feel tonally right for the canon when it's comedy, etc. Or when my sister wanted to make a Mirrormask vid to 'It's Only A Paper Moon', I pushed her to find a modern cover, which was faster and therefore harder to edit but way more suited to the quirky feel.)
One of the things I love about Thousand Eyes is how the song/vid reflects on a meta level the buildup of his quest - we only see the last two years on the show, but the slow first section really conveys the weight and patience and grief of those thirteen years, and then the building rhythm gives a sense of the work that went in, and the climax really drives home how this slow quiet man caused a whole country to change. Amazing stuff.
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When I am deliberately looking for a song, I'll put together a playlist of songs or albums with a certain kind of sound and then listen for the right lyrics; sometimes I'll search for songs by keyword, but that's not as successful.
I agree, the sound of music is very important to me when watching a vid, partly because I don't parse lyrics very well on first exposure (and I can't be sitting there reading the lyrics, there's a vid to watch! *g*), so I'll often just get the feel and a few key lines - but then I rewatch vids like crazy, and usually the ones that grabbed me on the first watch reward me even more when I get familiar with the lyrics, because the vidder understands how to storytell. And vice versa - if there's too much of a tone/genre mismatch, it can kick me out of the experience no matter how apt the lyrics are! (Like, I'm more willing to accept a song that doesn't feel tonally right for the canon when it's comedy, etc. Or when my sister wanted to make a Mirrormask vid to 'It's Only A Paper Moon', I pushed her to find a modern cover, which was faster and therefore harder to edit but way more suited to the quirky feel.)
One of the things I love about Thousand Eyes is how the song/vid reflects on a meta level the buildup of his quest - we only see the last two years on the show, but the slow first section really conveys the weight and patience and grief of those thirteen years, and then the building rhythm gives a sense of the work that went in, and the climax really drives home how this slow quiet man caused a whole country to change. Amazing stuff.