I watched the music video for
One Direction's "You Don't Know You're Beautiful" for the first time and I have some thoughts. I'll try to keep this brief.
First, every single member of that band needs a haircut. Badly. In fact they need to have all of their hairs cut, which is fortunate because usually that's the same price. At one point, one of them actually flips his hair when that line comes up in the song, only confirming this fact.
Second, I did have a hard time judging how well they sung because they must have forgotten to turn up the vocal track. The rest of it was so much louder! This alarmed me at first, but after listening closely, perhaps it was for the best.
Third, there appear to be five members in the group. Why? I hever heard more than two different parts at once! Why do you need five people in your group when there are only two parts? If there are five of you, I expect to hear five-part harmony at some point or else you're charging too much for your albums.
Fourth, the whole song is the chorus, I get it. Somebody wrote a catchy chorus and you want the verses to be short so you can get back to the chorus. Great. You're probably overpaying that guy, but whatever, maybe that's your slogan or your tagline or something: "One Direction: Overpaid." But after a couple of choruses you get to the point in the song where it's time for the bridge, and I have several problems with it.
First (if you don't like my numbering system, dwi, I'm trying to keep this brief, remember?), letting a different guy sing each verse and then another guy sing the bridge does not justify having so many people in your group. It actually hurts the song because there's a lack of continuity. It's so high-school to make everyone in your group sing by themselves for part of the song so that nobody gets mad they didn't get their solo.
Second, the video at this point is just creepy. We'll start out with the fact that the lighting sort of makes silhouettes, which would be nice if THAT GUY WOULD JUST GET HIS HAIRS CUT! It looks like his head is on fire! But he's standing all tall with his chest sticking out, but having to look down at the girl who is shorter than him, but she's so close to him that it just looks like he's "trying to get up in her grill" and the way he sings he looks like he's yelling at her. That scene would be a perfect dramatization of what domestic abuse looks like, except she's acting all shy and into him, which just makes it SO awkward. Who can really be into the abusive, yelling, guy with his (too much) hair on fire? I just don't get this.
Third, the bridge is EXACTLY THE CHORUS OF THE SONG AGAIN! They changed NOTHING! You can't do that! I remember in high school jazz band I thought I'd try playing the melody on my bari sax for my solo (which is supposed to be improvised). The director stopped me immediately and told me that you just don't do that. People have already heard that, you're supposed to play something different. You could get away with that other thing in high school, but this you can't even do in high school!
I guess that's enough for now.
