Tag: Brandy Senki

It is dumb hot in Belgium today and I’m ready to sit down with an iced tea in front of a fan and watch TV with Kaz so I’ll keep this pretty quick. The final entry in the Brandy Senki week of MVP is “No More!“:

I’ve been pretty sure I was going to end with this one from the beginning but as I went through each of the other posts I realized it was increasingly fitting. We’ve seen the heartbreak of goodbye with “Last Live,” the fear of growing up with “Coming of Age Story,” and multiple takes on toxic love but “No More!” stands out as a video where the band says, well, no more.

Now, how well the “won’t look back” of the lyrics will actually stick…

…we’ll see whenever they get around to writing a second album or new EP but for now I want to choose to believe it.

For at least this moment, Brandy Senki is taking full control of their destiny and hopefully are having fun doing it.

You also get an entire Instagram Reel of photos flashing by a light speed. You can slow it down if you want to see them but sometimes its fun to just let your brain pick things out over a few watches.

Next week will be another Band Week and yes I know which one, but let’s see which one it is next Monday.

My Music Video Picks [MVP] is a series of posts highlighting various music and dance videos from Youtube (usually). No particular schedule (sometimes lots, sometimes little). It might not even all be music or dance videos. Absolutely picked by me, though. Usually I have to like both the song and the video, but we’ll see.

You can see the most recent songs here: [Doug’s] Music Video Picks [Youtube Playlist]. Size of that list will change as the mood strikes. Playlist might contain spoilers for unpublished posts. Just enjoy.

It was a pretty tight toss-up between this one and “The End of the F***ing World” but ultimately the penultimate video for this week is Brandy Senki’s “27:00”:

Fun fact, this might have been the first video of theirs I put into any sort of playlist. It’s the only one in the “old” music playlist, I think, before sorting it out this year to be more like an archive with an more active “current music video playlist” on top.

Moving on, this one beat out “End of F***ing World” — which is good, too — because the “ooo ee oo oo aa ee aa aa” hook is damned infectious and because it has a bat puppet and bat puppets always win.

While both videos are snippets from dark urban tales (one retro to the early 90s/00s, the other more the diner era), both songs talk about relationships as a kind of nightmare. Not necessarily one from which you want to escape, but ones that definitely haunt you. On good days, in good ways. On others, maybe most days, maybe not so much.

In both, there is a fragility in strength in the central voice. She declares she will be strong enough to withstand a terrible relationship and perhaps strong enough to leave.

As an older man from a part of the world where terrible relationships are the norm, I vote leave.

Funnily enough, there is another song, “Nightmare-ish“, which by title and by lyrics fits right along with the vibe of these two. In fact, the lyrics more directly reference horror themes. The video, however, is absolutely chill.

One more video. Three (maybe four) strong candidates. Which one will make it to round out Brandy Senki week? Which band is next!?

TUNE IN!

My Music Video Picks [MVP] is a series of posts highlighting various music and dance videos from Youtube (usually). No particular schedule (sometimes lots, sometimes little). It might not even all be music or dance videos. Absolutely picked by me, though. Usually I have to like both the song and the video, but we’ll see.

You can see the most recent songs here: [Doug’s] Music Video Picks [Youtube Playlist]. Size of that list will change as the mood strikes. Playlist might contain spoilers for unpublished posts. Just enjoy.

I’m already on day 3 (of 5, no way I’ll wrap this up sooner for this band) and could almost stretch this out for every video in their catalog but will lock down just a bit. So, for today, let’s do “Box of Stockholm“:

For a couple of reasons. 1: It is perhaps the most aesthetically different of their videos. 2: It comes pretty close to telling a cohesive story. The video and the song.

You do get a bit of storytelling with “Tears Falling into Red Wine” but knowing as I do what the final pick will be, this one hits a little more roughly and shows just a bit of immaturity in the structure in which I mean as a compliment. Some songs are better when they stray.

With lyrics like… (translated)

He gives me bread
I confirm his love
Hostage negotiator
Don’t interfere now

…the mind starts to wonder if this is just a playful punk song about being held hostage and undergoing Stockholm Syndrome? Or is it about a relationship in general?

Or, with lines like…

Let me play the victim
Sincerity is an impurity
The tragic heroine in a novel
I’m sure she’s pretty
I want to die for art

…is it maybe a tongue in cheek discussion of being a tragic artist in general, starving for your art?

It’s fun, depressing, and slightly frayed. With what I think is the only shootout in a Brandy Senki video.

My Music Video Picks [MVP] is a series of posts highlighting various music and dance videos from Youtube (usually). No particular schedule (sometimes lots, sometimes little). It might not even all be music or dance videos. Absolutely picked by me, though. Usually I have to like both the song and the video, but we’ll see.

You can see the most recent songs here: [Doug’s] Music Video Picks [Youtube Playlist]. Size of that list will change as the mood strikes. Playlist might contain spoilers for unpublished posts. Just enjoy.

Now that I’ve done sort of an introductory week and then a week-of-premieres, I figure it might be best to take a few weeks (with some “interruptions”) and just spend 3-5 days each week showcasing certain core bands via a few music videos that I think exemplify them. By the nature of the beast, this does not necessarily translate to “their best songs ever” since good music and good music videos sometimes part, but we’ll make do…

Here is one of my favorite bands of the past decade and what I think is the first song I ever heard by them, Brandy Senki’s “Last Live”:

It is a delightful song and the video features beautiful young people having lots of fun and that is a really great way to make a music video. It is a whole mood.

There’s also a fun Behind the Scenes//Making of… that shows off more of it and has some nice clips with Nathalie Scarlette (who has now directed at least a small handful of their videos).

I’m not 100% sure the lyrics make any sense [they have English subtitles among others] but like, just enjoy the nose dimples, rainbow motifs, and hair flips.

My Music Video Picks [MVP] is a series of posts highlighting various music and dance videos from Youtube (usually). No particular schedule (sometimes lots, sometimes little). It might not even all be music or dance videos. Absolutely picked by me, though. Usually I have to like both the song and the video, but we’ll see.

You can see the most recent songs here: [Doug’s] Music Video Picks [Youtube Playlist]. Size of that list will change as the mood strikes. Playlist might contain spoilers for unpublished posts. Just enjoy.