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  • I'm Your Toy (p.2)
2014/05/18 21:38:37
davdud101
I don't understand the setup tbh but i like the song and performance and idk, everything about this is so warm and strange-feeling and friendly that I actually want to see more. Good quality video (great editing!!) and audio, too.
2014/05/19 23:33:33
theguitarplayer
There is a lot of this new kind of art coming out on the internet/youtube, but for me it is out of my realm. But, good quality on the video and the music was done and edited very well. Amazing what some of these new pocket recorders can do these days. Quite the project for sure.
 
Peace and Blessings, John
2014/05/20 22:25:47
teego
I am going to tell you what I got from the performance and please tell me if I am close. The guy on the bed with the girl is the guy in the song that the girl is with now, and all the people with bloody noses represents people banged up by bad relationships. The guy on the bed is just chilling secure in the fact that he has the girl , while the guy and girl both are really wanting to be together.
2014/05/20 22:48:04
The Band19
I "still" don't get it? And I'm pretty ****ing smart? I test out in the mid 130s?
2014/05/21 07:45:32
The Maillard Reaction
teego
I am going to tell you what I got from the performance and please tell me if I am close. The guy on the bed with the girl is the guy in the song that the girl is with now, and all the people with bloody noses represents people banged up by bad relationships. The guy on the bed is just chilling secure in the fact that he has the girl , while the guy and girl both are really wanting to be together.





I'll pass this on to the performers. I suspect you are very close to interpreting their intent. I think they'll enjoy learning of your interpretation and I can share with you the idea that I have a similar interpretation.
 
There is one detail I haven't shared that may be helpful to understanding. The set list serves as something that could loosely be described as a concept album about love and expectations. The shows always end with the appearance of a beautiful queen character which I think represents the guy-on-the-bed's *one true love*, and so the girl in the scene which I posted on YouTube seems to play the role of a dangerous temptation. The idea is to illustrate the impact such temptations have on a relationship with one's true soul mate. The pianist/vocalist seems to be the *voice* of the guy-on-the-bed.
 
I haven't asked the artists what they are trying to convey as I expect that they want to leave each of us to use our own ideas and expectations to form a reaction. 
 
all the best,
mike
 
 
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2014/05/21 07:48:36
The Maillard Reaction
 
Thanks to everyone who took the time to take a look and listen. A special thanks to everyone who left comments.
 
I'm glad some have enjoyed it and appreciate how open minded people have been about the technical issues.
 
best regards,
mike
2014/05/21 11:51:16
ruralrocker2010
The production value was quite high. Assuming the tight shots were intended for effect I feel comfortable making this observations.
 
The clown/circus/troubador motif was cool. But it got a little eerie for my by the sexually suggestive nature and also sadistic nature of the super close camera angle of the clown on the Big Screen tv. It suggests a madman who's sophisticated enough to accomplish his deeds but unaware of social normative behavior; infact he's glued to it. His nerdy shoes and wearing stockings suggests he's effeminate. Her sultry walk and carrying wine, then pouring it on the dead man suggests that she's the real motivation behind the crime - laying upside, singing, suggest she's really the one who's found this mad man and she's figured out a way to live through him and she creates these erotoscapes by simply tuning him to her plans. He thinks he's in control and really it's her.
 
My take away is that we've just seen a murder and the two singers are simply enjoying the premable to the climax of their crime. For me, it was very pornographic in nature...especially the laying around and tight shots of the female. The two other players, were suggestive to me of pawns in the crime. There, participants, but not really "there". Their sullen faces suggested remorse, but not to overcome their ambivalence.
 
The cropping of the video is just a part of the story telling as the actual words, or color or sounds. Your mind fills in the gaps of what you can't see with what's most closely intimated by the motions.
 
I thought it was provocative and suspenseful. I watched the whole thing - but watching it made me feel a little icky...I literally thought...omg, they are going to have an orgy after this song.
 
It's art, so I guess there's what you intend and there's how I took it. :) 
2014/05/29 12:09:49
BoostSoftware
teego
I am going to tell you what I got from the performance and please tell me if I am close. The guy on the bed with the girl is the guy in the song that the girl is with now, and all the people with bloody noses represents people banged up by bad relationships. The guy on the bed is just chilling secure in the fact that he has the girl , while the guy and girl both are really wanting to be together.


Perfect....TheBand19 needs to read this, and maybe get it.  Great description of the underlying meaning and actually makes good sense, in a symbolic kind of way.  Nice translation...So Mike, is any of this close to an interpretation of the meaning?
 
Learned Much from a Technical Perspective when Watching the Clip, as well.
 
Worth a Watch & Listen,
-Erin
2014/05/29 12:36:06
Starise
Great audio especially knowing how you managed to capture it and the other things that were interfering with the recording. The video was good too. 
 
I don't really know what my IQ tests at lol....but I guess I didn't get it because I didn't attempt to get it.Attempting to get it would certainly need deeper look from me. I took the performance at face value and it had a kind of relaxing effect between the art and the music. I think the Wurly contributed greatly to the effect of the entire performance. Melancholic for sure.
 
This is certainly a more sophisticated approach to performance. It had to take some major forethought to come up with something like this...I'm sure there's plenty of ulterior meaning I'm probably not up for.
2014/05/30 09:39:23
The Maillard Reaction
Hi Erin,
 I think the idea is that any and every body has their own interpretation and that these artists are the type that enjoy the idea that every viewers' personal interpretation is likely to take precedence, in each respective viewers' mind, over any statement of intent, and so they haven't attempted to make a clear statement of their intent. 
 
 For example; Rural Rocker's and Starise's interpretations are equally valid, for lack of a better word, because each insight is appropriate on a personal level.
 
 best regards,
mike
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