Looking back on 2008, it was a good year for filming, and I’m reminded of the both the wiser and dumber things I heard this year. The former was delivered by New Order bassist Peter Hook, who, in an interview with P4k, sussed it out accurately- “I just felt that the way that people do music videos these days, there’s no lingering. You don’t get to watch the performance because it’s so busy cutting and editing to make it look interesting. I just find the whole aspect of that completely self-defeating.”
I couldn’t agree more with this, and I think it’s a generational thing. While mine was the first generation to experience adolescence with MTV, we had a prior frame of reference, whereas the subsequent generation went through their entire development from toddlerhood to adolesecence with MTV, and all they know are quick cuts. Which isn’t
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