Song Choice in Vidding (Slash Version)

[tinturtle]

I will probably be starting a new Professionals fanvid soon using the song Hammer to Fall by Queen. (Thanks to restorick for the suggestion.) Today, though, I've been considering whether I should make a fluffy, romantic vid first (or maybe at the same time), since so many people seem to like the one I made using the Turtles's You Baby. Yet I find that, in addition to the barriers to song choice I mentioned in my previous post, vids like that present the further problem that potential songs are often inconveniently gendered. If the singer mentions the beloved in the third person, it may be as "she", if the singer addresses the beloved, it may be as "girl", and so on. Take the song I'm a Believer by The Monkees, which I love. (Yes, I'm a goop, but in my defense, the lyrics are clever and it's got a rock organ.) There are parts that might lend themselves to a Doyle POV vid, but to use the song that way would require associating Bodie with feminine pronouns. I don't know whether that should disqualify it or not, really. My inclination is that it should, however. I'm pretty sure it would have for the Lads and their contemporaries; overlooking it would feel like too much of an anachronism.

Comments

[restorick.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, looking forward to it!

[tinturtle]

Thanks. Hammer to Fall does have a section shared between the lead guitar and the bass that lasts a whole 55 seconds and that I may decide is just too hard to work with. I really want to use the song, though.

[tinturtle]

I also really want to make a vid using Cover Me by Bruce Springsteen (get it?), and I think a vid using Cars by Gary Numan could be pretty funny (though the song might drive me up the wall before I could finish). I have a partly completed vid for I Won't Back Down by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, as well. I abandoned it partly because I was frustrated by the repetitive lyrics and partly because I decided people might not like my interpretation of them.

[tinturtle]

I think that London Calling by The Clash might be a good thematic match for Pros, too, but I don't feel up to that one. I have this sense that, as someone who is neither British nor old enough to remember the 70s, I couldn't do it justice. Possibly I could talk myself out of that.