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Gacked from Salon.com:
Barack O'Bollywood
Acid poetry with a bhangra beat
This is sharing honors with Mike Gravel's Rock as Best. Campaign Video. Ever. And the fact that it uses one of my top five favorite pieces of music doesn't have anything to do with that, of course. (Shout out to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
twothreefour - dude, do not miss.)
I for one hope these kinds of fun, odd, quirky videos become more common. Let's face it, they're not any more relevant to real life than any other campaign video we've ever seen - wooden people staring at the camera and mouthing platitudes while inflammatory images are manipulated for the viewer. Who wouldn't prefer to watch trippy videos of dancing ladies inhabiting a candidate's jacket?
This ad, like the Gravel one before it, engages what I consider to be a very important aspect of a candidate's run that rarely gets acknowledged or talked about, at least in an honest way, and that's a sense of humor. I never thought I'd laugh in this way when seeing a political ad. If anything, the laugh has been of a nasty kind, and I wonder why a candidate would want to evoke that reaction. But this ad is bright and funny without any snide overtones, and I really like that. A lot.
We've got another year to go, for gods' sakes. I vote we dance more.
Gacked from Salon.com:
Barack O'Bollywood
Acid poetry with a bhangra beat
This is sharing honors with Mike Gravel's Rock as Best. Campaign Video. Ever. And the fact that it uses one of my top five favorite pieces of music doesn't have anything to do with that, of course. (Shout out to
twothreefour - dude, do not miss.)I for one hope these kinds of fun, odd, quirky videos become more common. Let's face it, they're not any more relevant to real life than any other campaign video we've ever seen - wooden people staring at the camera and mouthing platitudes while inflammatory images are manipulated for the viewer. Who wouldn't prefer to watch trippy videos of dancing ladies inhabiting a candidate's jacket?
This ad, like the Gravel one before it, engages what I consider to be a very important aspect of a candidate's run that rarely gets acknowledged or talked about, at least in an honest way, and that's a sense of humor. I never thought I'd laugh in this way when seeing a political ad. If anything, the laugh has been of a nasty kind, and I wonder why a candidate would want to evoke that reaction. But this ad is bright and funny without any snide overtones, and I really like that. A lot.
We've got another year to go, for gods' sakes. I vote we dance more.
