Thursday, July 1, 2010

My favorite music video 'Weapon of choice, Fat boy slim'

We were given the chance to choose our favorite music video; to then show it to the class and educate them about the video and present reasons for my choice. My choice was the video 'Weapon of choice' by a well known artist that goes by the name of Fat boy Slim but his real name is Norman cook.

After listening to the song and trying to make sense of the cryptic lyrics, I began to make some connections after extensive research to a very popular and historical science fiction novel ‘Dune’ "Don't be shocked by the tone of my voice. Check out my new weapon, weapon of choice." This seems to refer to the voice that the ‘Bene Gesserit use who are a key social, religious, and political force used in the book and they use this voice as a weapon to control others, incite them to violence and overall to get them to do what they want. This lyric also gives a whole new crazy weird angle to the meaning of Weapon of Choice and the video Weapon of Choice gives a crazy weird angle to Dune. Consequently synergy is created.
The genre of music is know as ‘Big Beat’ which is typically driven by heavy break beats and synthesizer-generated loops and patterns in common with established forms of electronic dance music such as techno and acid house. The Brighton based dance music record label, ‘Skint records’ has been a leader in the ‘Big Beat’ music scene since the late 1990’s and has become well known due to the success of their collaboration with Norman cook (Fat boy slim).

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