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Notes on Twee, part 2: The Crash Test Dummies (Those Avant-Garde Harbingers of Mainstream Superheroes, School Plays, and the Willful Embrace of Nostalgia)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Baroque, Beat Happening, Beetlejuice, Belle Epoque, chamber pop, comics, Crash Test Dummies, David Lynch, Death of Superman, Edward Gorey, grunge, High School Musical, Joan Osborne, Nitsuh Abebe, nostalgia, Peter Greenaway, punk, Ranz des Vaches, Romanticism, Smashing Pumpkins, Stan Brakhage, superheroes, Television Personalities, Terry Gilliam, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, The Elephant Man, The Magnetic Fields, The Softies, The Vaselines, Tim Burton, Twee, Twee as Fuck on February 11, 2010 | 12 Comments »

In my last post in this series, I embedded and linked to every single music video I know that uses the concept of the video as a school musical. (Please let me know if I’ve missed any; I’m sure there are more.) Such videos became especially pronounced in the 2000s, especially between 2005 and 2007. [...]

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Notes on Twee, part 1: Music Videos as School Plays

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aaron Stewart, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Bjork, Chris Robinson, Christian Palladino, Crash Test Dummies, Danielson, Darren Doane, Dave Meyers, Dwayne Carter, Fefe Dobson, HORSE The Band, Lil Wayne, Mastodon, Michel Gondry, Mike Maguire, MTV Movie Awards, Of Montreal, Panzervision, Patrick Daughters, Paul McGuigan, Roboshobo, Snow Patrol, The Avalanches, The Brothers Chaps, The Decemberists, The Max Fischer Players, The Shins, Tom Kuntz, Wes Anderson on January 15, 2010 | 11 Comments »

1993: Crash Test Dummies: “MMM MMM MMM MMM”, director unknown.

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Notes on Twee, part 2: The Crash Test Dummies (Those Avant-Garde Harbingers of Mainstream Superheroes, School Plays, and the Willful Embrace of Nostalgia)

Notes on Twee, part 1: Music Videos as School Plays

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