Festivids!

Oh maaan this doesn't get any less awesome the more I watch it and in fact, just gets more brilliant. Unfortunately, I'm falling asleep so think of this as part one and then I will come and finish up with part two tomorrow because this vid deserves full brain cells cause it's HOLY SHIT AMAZING!

I love how that opening shot sets up Rachel's unhappiness in how she feels stuck and the title coming in to the music looks SO cool with the disjointed nature setting up both the editing and the meaning of the wrongness/unreality of what's going on. It also looks like when the text comes in, the video shifts and I love that effect and how it pulls you out of it a bit. I love how you begin with her entering the show again, having to drop it down to go back to the hell that left her bloody before. It's cool how it looks like the camera is following her as if she's on the show again which helps introduce that angle of the vid. I like the play on "eyeball" with Rachel looking around at the people judging her (great clip choice) and having to be "good enough" to take that punishment as she wraps herself up in cynicism ("this is what a feminist looks like", etc) and pretends to be fine ("gotta love it though...") in order to take it. I think the line "only problem is you're too vertical" is really interesting in this vid. The height of the visuals makes it feel like the pov is from the camera and her looking it up at it makes it seem that the problem is she's too aware of the cameras and how they're setting everyone up and that she's too aware of the sexist, dark nature of the show as well as too self-controlled when the camera really loved her last year when she scored big ratings for them.

I love how "get low" is her coming back to work for Quinn with their little smiles with pleasure and pain certainly describing their relationship and I love that the lyric "a little bit of pain never hurt nobody" reflects how Quinn doesn't take the contestants pain seriously and just focuses on the work which flows perfectly into the "work your body" being her commanding others and controlling the cameras of the show. The line "better than the last motherfucker" works so well with how Quinn compares the producers to each other not to mention to their past selves. The "fluid on the floor" clip made me think of Rachel's pain in her meltdown from last season (which works nicely to the beginning blood reference) but then "no sorry" to Quinn ignoring it and having her get right back to work by giving her the papers (nice parallel). I love how the commanding lyrics shift from Quinn giving orders to Rachel to Rachel listening to her and giving orders to the people from the show, great transition. I love how the final "clap" is Rachel gesturing to her getting shot in the head showing that even as she's enjoying the work again, she's still in pain.



More tomorrow! THANK YOU AGAIN FESTIVIDDER, I really really appreciate you making this vid for me as it is full of so much meaning and super cool editing and feeeeelings and I love it lots and lots :D :D :D