{"id":17842,"date":"2013-02-24T18:25:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T23:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=17842"},"modified":"2013-02-25T13:35:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T18:35:50","slug":"i-am-sorely-disappointed-by-your-video-terence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-am-sorely-disappointed-by-your-video-terence\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Sorely Disappointed by Your Video, Terence"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FcUmIRw0N5w?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Many of you already know that I am a fairly big fan of the works of Terence Trent D&#8217;Arby. The world needs more unapologetically pretentious pop\/soul artists, and he certainly was one for the better part of the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, I chanced upon a listing on YouTube for a TTD video I didn&#8217;t know existed: &#8220;Dance Little Sister.&#8221; Now, I&#8217;ve always loved this song \u2014 for me, its ferocity seems to transcend the cheeseball 1980s production flourishes that come close to ruining his first album, <em>Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D&#8217;Arby<\/em>. So it&#8217;s a winner, and I eagerly clicked to watch TTD tear it up.<\/p>\n<p>Boy, did I dial a wrong number! Who green-lit this stinker?! The band looks unbelievably uncool in every possible way, TTD seems to lack any interest in what he&#8217;s doing, and the &#8220;cut-to&#8221; scenes of &#8212; of what, exactly? &#8212; seem to have been flown in from a diaper commercial.<\/p>\n<p>For me, this video was a major, major let-down. I know we&#8217;ve talked about &#8220;holy grail&#8221; audio pieces that have been revealed to suck upon actually hearing them for the first time; do any of you have any video let-downs as disappointing as this one?<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses \u2014 and I also attach a rare bit of TTD video that doesn&#8217;t suck to show you what I was hoping I&#8217;d discover, but didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s2GpPfBITuA?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you already know that I am a fairly big fan of the works of Terence Trent D&#8217;Arby. The world needs more unapologetically pretentious pop\/soul artists, and he certainly was one for the better part of the 1990s. Anyhow, I chanced upon a listing on YouTube for a TTD video I didn&#8217;t know existed: <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-am-sorely-disappointed-by-your-video-terence\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[46,323,47,211,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17842"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}