{"id":5292,"date":"2011-01-13T12:23:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T16:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=5292"},"modified":"2011-01-13T12:23:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T16:23:01","slug":"listen-but-dont-look-principle-revisited-something-so-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/listen-but-dont-look-principle-revisited-something-so-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen But Don&#8217;t Look Principle Revisited: Something So Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WyBKzBtaKWM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Prompted by <strong>Townsfellow shawnkilroy<\/strong>, I just watched the video for &#8220;Something So Strong,&#8221; by <strong>Crowded House<\/strong> for the first time in a while.\u00a0I think that this song is undeniable.\u00a0It\u2019s a great performance of a great song, the hooks are so big you could use them to go whale fishing and it still sounds fantastic despite the era in which it was recorded.\u00a0Even <strong>Mitchell Froom<\/strong> managed not to go overboard with the production.<\/p>\n<p>The problem?\u00a0Everything about the video.\u00a0When this came out, I almost blew off Crowded House solely because of that video.\u00a0This may be an example of <strong>Bigsteve<\/strong>\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/the-listen-but-don-t-look-principle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Listen But Don\u2019t Look Principle<\/a><\/em>, but let me catalog some of the atrocities that take place in a mere 3:13:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shameless mugging<\/li>\n<li>Slack-jawed bemusement<\/li>\n<li>Milk drinking<\/li>\n<li>Neckerchiefs<\/li>\n<li>Cartwheels<\/li>\n<li>Pratfalls<\/li>\n<li>Horn-rimmed eyeglass\u2014bedecked Nerds dancing with dresses<\/li>\n<li>Video chicks that are so devoid of sex appeal that they make it seem like the Nerd made the right choice when he went for the dress<\/li>\n<li>And a complete and utter disregard for one another\u2019s personal space.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/rock-crime-rem-s-losing-my-religion-vide\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Losing My Religion,&#8221; by <strong>REM<\/strong><\/a> is a distant second for me for songs that I ended up liking despite the video.\u00a0The film-student pretentiousness of that video made it unable for me to give that song a fair shake.\u00a0When I finally saw them do it live on tv, I ended up really liking the song.<\/p>\n<p><em>Are there promotional efforts that ended up doing more harm than good for you?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompted by Townsfellow shawnkilroy, I just watched the video for &#8220;Something So Strong,&#8221; by Crowded House for the first time in a while.\u00a0I think that this song is undeniable.\u00a0It\u2019s a great performance of a great song, the hooks are so big you could use them to go whale fishing and it still sounds fantastic despite <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/listen-but-dont-look-principle-revisited-something-so-wrong\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[411,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}