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fandomsecrets2013-01-19 03:12 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2013-01-19 03:12 pm
[ SECRET POST #2209 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2208 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Re: Songs and knowing too much about them
(Anonymous) 2013-01-20 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)My takeaway from the lyrics wasn't "the human race sucks" either. And mind you, I'm not bashing the music video. I think the music video was quite spectacular, one of the best I've ever seen, the message in the video with the divergent paths and choices is a very good one -- I just think the message with one narrator not only fits the lyrics better because it remains an unbroken monologue rather than a duet, but IMHO is more powerful and more original for a song because it's all the same one guy who can make all those choices, showing how layered a single human being can be and how one person's raw power can be used for good or evil or innocent fun at any time.
A story about two guys who were at first level with each other making different choices and one going bad and one going evil is all about divergence and difference. It's not a bad story, far from it, but it doesn't have that quiet, linear build and gradual deconstruction that makes the lyrics only version so scary.
In addition, the song is all about what the narrator CAN do. His potential. The various possible futures he can dream up. All the choices he could make, if he wanted to. The music video shows what actually happened, which is a very different idea (although it can sort of be interpreted as a flashforward, which is nice.)