{"id":10361,"date":"2011-11-18T08:37:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T13:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=10361"},"modified":"2011-11-18T10:39:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T15:39:56","slug":"rth-labs-uncovers-possibly-the-most-disturbing-footage-of-white-youths-rocking-to-an-uninspired-cover-of-%e2%80%9celectric-avenue%e2%80%9d-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rth-labs-uncovers-possibly-the-most-disturbing-footage-of-white-youths-rocking-to-an-uninspired-cover-of-%e2%80%9celectric-avenue%e2%80%9d-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"RTH Labs Uncovers Possibly the Most Disturbing Footage of White Youths Rocking to an Uninspired Cover of \u201cElectric Avenue\u201d Ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3QvWjCAd_Ng?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>So much troubles me about this clip: the anachronistically grainy, washed-out look of it and the in-your-face camera angles for starters. The band must have been terrified to have some kid jamming his Hipstamatic video phone device in their faces. And what&#8217;s with that Deadhead backdrop? Does this thing take place in a club, a frat, a shrine to Jerry? No one in the crowd seems capable of generating any real energy, even after the main singer announces around the 3:30 mark that he wants to see more energy. Yet the crowd keeps dancing (badly), singing along (out of key), raising their plastic beer cups to the camera. The whole thing makes me nauseous, yet I can&#8217;t turn away from it. See if you can make it through. RTH Labs believes this may be the whitest crowd ever captured on video. I don&#8217;t think this is what <strong>Eric Burdon<\/strong> had in mind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So much troubles me about this clip: the anachronistically grainy, washed-out look of it and the in-your-face camera angles for starters. The band must have been terrified to have some kid jamming his Hipstamatic video phone device in their faces. And what&#8217;s with that Deadhead backdrop? Does this thing take place in a club, a <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rth-labs-uncovers-possibly-the-most-disturbing-footage-of-white-youths-rocking-to-an-uninspired-cover-of-%e2%80%9celectric-avenue%e2%80%9d-ever\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[126],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}