Dominating Hollywood: Starting with Scarlett

Chapter 120 Catharsis of irony
  "WTF!" Madden, a bald black man, covered his head with a shocked expression. Others who had the same expression as him were watching the MV in front of the TV.

Mirren also had the same expression, and even Judy's eyes widened, as if she had seen a ghost.

"What song is this? What MV is this?"

Great doubts arose in everyone's hearts, and then, as if they were cut by Jessica's blade, the name of this MV was retrieved from their memories.

""Condescending"."

"OMG! What the hell is this? Why do I think this song is so ugly, but...it's just so brainwashing! Arrogant and overthrown by everything!"

"Yeah, you're right, and that MV! Oh my god, it's so violent! It's so exciting! I feel like my whole body is going to climax with it!"

"I've never seen anything so violent! But why is the blood green? WHY?"

"It's so crazy. I feel like this song, and the director seems to feel like this too... How on earth did he think of letting such a delicate beauty film a fight scene? But I have to admit that she beat her very happily!"

Everyone has a feeling of excitement in their hearts, and there is no shortage of doubts. If they could describe their feelings after watching the MV in one sentence, it would be in what kind of mental state did the director create the MV?

Thinking of this, Mirren came back to his senses and asked Divar who was watching: "Is Don the director of this song?"

"That's right!" Divar spread his hands.

"It's unbelievable that Don can actually make action movies! And the shots are so good!" Mirren has gradually figured out why this song can bring people such a complicated emotional experience.

The main reason is that Raymond's accompaniment is so damn explosive and his rapping is so damn brainwashing. When watching this MV and the song together, it will give people the illusion of a magical sound penetrating their ears.

At the same time, he also lamented that this song seemed not worthy of such a cool MV, but after watching it, he wanted to watch it again, even though it was a kind of torture for him, who doesn't listen to death metal music at all.

But precisely because of pain and happiness, it makes people more entangled.

Everyone who had not come back to their senses at this time also felt the same way, and then the TV started to loop after the list of personnel ended.

After watching it for the second time, Madden muttered: "I am so arrogant that I will destroy everything."

The four-eyed boy Pucci gestured back and forth with his hands like blades: "Kill, kill, kill! Kill, kill, kill!"

"He is arrogant and overthrows everything."

"Kill, kill, kill! Kill, kill, kill!"

The two of them seemed to have been completely brainwashed into looking like the MV. They were crying and howling in front of the TV. They were so embarrassed that they only had to swipe their noses with their fingers to transform into Bruce Lee.

"So, do you want to buy this album?" Divar turned to look at Mirren.

Mirren looked at Judy.

"I don't buy it, this song is too ugly...and I don't like blood either." Judy wrinkled her nose and rejected Divar's proposal.

But the next moment, she saw Mirren turning back quickly: "I'll buy it! Three!"

"Gift crab! Boss! I'll buy it too!"

"And me, leave me five! I'm going to play them at all kinds of parties!"

"That's right, party! Massacre! That's how it should be! I want two!"

Judy was dumbfounded as she watched these men waving banknotes excitedly, as if they must get this album, which was a bit incomprehensible.

Even the stingy Pucci and Madden spent money to buy an album each. This was even more positive than buying photos, and there are many people like them.

After the song "Confident" was released, most girls' reviews of the song were extremely bad, while most boys' reviews of the song were bad, but not completely bad.

The key is that this song is great!
  Whether they are listening or watching, they can hysterically vent their emotions in the explosive music and large color contrast visuals. Especially those things and people in life that we don’t like, everyone has experienced it and been aggrieved, but they can’t vent it in person. As a result, after seeing the MV of this song, without exception, everyone's unhappiness was vented with the scene of Jessica killing people.

So much so that when Jessica's name became known to everyone, she was immediately hailed as the goddess of slaying by fans!
  She has seen her name in reports these days, both in the music industry and in Hollywood. The main reason is that the "Hollywood Report" recently published an article, which quickly broke the circle of the extremely bloody and violent scenes in the MV. The effect is well known to Hollywood insiders.

"A new aesthetic of bloody violence! The sharp contrast between extreme colors and simple movements!"

Generally speaking, any new style is born from movies, and then spreads to its side industries and becomes known.

For example, John Woo's violent aesthetics, Hitchcock's thriller art, and Stephen Chow's nonsensical style.

But this time it was different. When some Hollywood media people saw the style of this MV and looked for it in past works, they found no movies with a similar style.

Although there are traces of Quentin in the MV shot by Tang De, it is not entirely based on Quentin. There is no bloody scene like his eye-plucking and heart-robbing scenes, but instead various bone blowing techniques.

Coupled with the ultimate single color contrast, this feeling is more like a new direction formed by mixing various styles.

It is precisely because of this that it attracted a small amount of attention in Hollywood. After the "Hollywood Reporter" published an article, more media began to pay attention to this MV and express their own views and opinions.

At the same time, the music world has also been stirred up by this song. On the one hand, Tang De's new MV is indeed good enough, and on the other hand, the listening experience of this song is indeed bad enough.

Many music critics have said that the song and the MV cannot be put together and should be viewed separately. The production and style of the song itself are indeed unacceptable.

But if they want to be more radical, they can't criticize him. Because the singer Raymond is already dead, or died tragically accidentally, should he be erected as a target and whipped?

Even the music tabloids couldn't do this kind of thing, so something strange happened. In all the newspapers, everyone only discussed the topic of the MV, and no one seemed to care whether the song was good or not.

For example, Billboard Music published a review of this song with the title "In the name of irony, it's a work of catharsis!" 》.

"If there was the most unexpected thing about the start of 2003, it would have to be that MTV Award winner Tang filmed a new music video that killed all the 'judges'. This is really crazy. There were many newspapers saying that Tang and this The songs have the same title and are arrogant. They are challenging the bottom line of all music critics and judges. They are elated after winning the award. But in my opinion, it is more than that.

"Because from all the details of this MV, we can find that this is by no means a simple massacre of opponents and judges, but more of a satire on the current weird situation in the music industry: new singers are always accompanied by meaningless Controversy of speculation and overlooking.

"Why do you say that? Let's deconstruct the elements in the film one by one. The first one is of course the awards stage, where a few clowns appear, obviously talking about the critics. And as the curtain opens, we can see In the dark courtroom, Jessica stood on the trial stand.

"What does this mean? What the so-called award stage shows to the public is a trial. It has been separated from the original award context and has instead become a siege of the new generation. And those clowns have turned into judges. , but instead of wearing black robes, they wear red robes, which shows that they only want to become red, and the truth of the trial is not important.

"Then came the trial, where Jessica was stripped naked. We could see that no one carried out this action, which means that the judges just used their 'mouth' to complete it. This is easy to understand, because various critics are Relying on words and articles, I completed the hunt for the new generation of new style singers.

"Then came the fight scene, breaking through the prison wall. When Jessica arrived at the karate dojo, the judges were sitting on the floor. There were various lists and portraits in the center of the crowd, like wanted lists. Those people represented Their goal, which indirectly proves what I said, is that they are a group of critics who make a living by satirizing the new generation of new styles.

"Then there was a hearty fight and killing. Those guys in red robes spurted out green blood. Obviously, they were not real people, they were just monsters. Until Jessica killed these monsters and smashed them The judgment seat, which can also be said to be the platform on which they live, destroyed this ridiculous awards stage, and the entire MV came to an end.

"After watching the entire MV, although Raymond's singing voice is not pleasant to be honest, the combination of lyrics and MV is very good, even if it is full of all kinds of swear words and dirty jokes that are not suitable for children. But this is the attitude of the new generation. Like Eminem, he has been criticized since his debut. In fact, criticizing him has even become a kind of right in the music industry.

"Because some critics are very afraid that this new form of song will subvert their own aesthetics, cognition and status. In order to protect the old order, they must desperately suppress the new style until the new style It becomes the public's choice, new judges replace the old judges, and a new round of reincarnation begins.

"So I can give full marks to Tang's MV. As for this year's MTV Awards, to be honest, it would be more interesting if this song was not given, because it proves that it successfully satirized everything."

After this article was published, the sales of Billboard music magazine continued to increase. Music critics seemed to have found a new angle to interpret the MV, so they all stopped and satirized the old critics who claimed to be aloof and looked down on everything.

And the readers are really supportive. The sales of newspapers with such remarks have increased, making them smile.

Singers in the music industry also expressed support one by one, especially rappers. Jay-Z, Nelly and others all expressed their own comments on the song.

They unanimously did not comment on the song itself, only the lyrics and the MV. Only Eminem expressed regret and said that if Raymond had not died, maybe they could collaborate on a song.

Of course, it's the kind where Ramone writes the lyrics and Eminem sings.

Everyone was remembering Raymond, and those people even went to pay homage to Raymond's tombstone again. Among the deep remembrance of Raymond, only Dylan was there.

His lungs were about to explode!
  (End of this chapter)