Headlines video is pretty boring, don’t you think?
Posted by: bigbolshevik in EntertainmentI’m watching the DVD of the Spice Girls Greatest Hits. I saw the video for "Headlines" yesterday. It strikes me how the Headlines video is comparatively boring and uninspired.
Wannabe: Done in one take (actually not, but it’s been made to look that way)
Say You’ll Be There: Sci-fi theme with the Girls taking on characters (Geri was "Trixie Firecracker", Emma was "Kung-Fu Candy" etc) and throwing various metallic weapons.
2 Become One: Everything going in superspeed in the background
Mama: Home videos - some presumably true, some faked.
Who Do You Think You Are: Nothing really unusual about this one
Spice Up Your Life: Bleak ("disutopian"?) sci-fi theme where the Spice Girls are the dominant force of the world. Trivia: one of the things you see on the video screen, "Spice Wars", was actually an anti-Spice-Girls animation created by a Spice hater 
Too Much: Each of the girls is in a totally different movie genre - Mel B from sci-fi, Emma is supernatural, Mel C from Kung-Fu movies, Geri from WW2 period, Victoria from spy films (?). Plus clips from their own movie. Visually very striking - lightning, explosions, etc.
Stop: Not very striking or memorable, except that it seems to be set in the 1960s in a small town. They go to a county fair.
Viva Forever: The most striking and memorable video the Spice Girls have done - probably one of the most memorable and puzzling of all time. It has a fairytale theme with two children going on an adventure. Check it out on Youtube if you haven’t seen it - it’s a beautiful piece of video art. I can’t really describe it any further, because the story is puzzling and slightly disturbing. Trivia: Debate raged for years as to whether it was two girls, or a girl and a boy. I’m sure Spice fans are still debating whether the Spice fairies in the video were good or evil.
Goodbye: Mel B wearing a strange hat is interesting enough :-) But seriously, the Spice Girls go into this mansion and discover frozen people inside. Toward the end of the song, the people start thawing and coming back to life. It reminds me of an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It’s another memorable video.
Let Love Lead The Way: Each of the Girls represent elements. But they really just sing the song.
Holler: More of the "elements" theme, but really just singing and dancing.
Headlines: You just see them singing the song. Alarmingly, you only see them together in the same shot for the first 20 seconds of the video - once the song kicks in, they are only ever shown individually or in twos. Makes it look sorta like the launch party for Forever :-) I shouldn’t laugh, as it’s not exactly inspiring confidence in their ability to stay together if they barely even appear together in the video.
But you see what I mean? So many Spice Girls music videos were interesting, with more going on than just the song. Headlines is the third video in a row which hasn’t had anything going on *but* the song. And I’ve now heard the song "Voodoo" - first impressions are that I don’t like it.
Oh, and I can’t access the damn extended "Golden Ticket" part of the CD on Linux. I should probably boot up into Windows. (Co-incidence that "Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory" was on TV last night?)
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