Videos featuring high school gyms
Film your video at a high school gym and you're doing something very particular--you're trying to emphasize the teenage-ness of the music, whether ironically or sincerely, successfully or un. Here are some attempts, all linked by gyms, even if the music doesn't suggest any link at all.Wheatus - "Teenage Dirtbag"
PJ Soles - "Rock 'n' Roll High School" (one of the greatest scenes in all of American cinema, for my money)
High School Musical - "We're All in This Together"
Fall Out Boy - "Dance, Dance"
West Side Story - "Gym Mambo"
More? Put 'em in the comments.
Labels: music, musicals, videos
posted by Mike B. @ 9:08 AM
8 Comments:
My Chemical Romance's "Teenagers"
Did you deliberately leave out "Smells Like Teen Spirit"?
Britney's seminal "Baby One More Time" and another vote for "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
Yeah, I did leave out Nirvana intentionally. I think it doesn't take place in a real high school gym, but in a sort of dreamworld version of one. In the ones I posted, there's other cues besides the setting to its essential gym-ness: prom clothes, workout clothes, high-school-dance music, etc. There are cheerleaders and bleachers in SLTS, but they're not there to portray an actual event like a pep rally, whereas you can name the event going on in the other clips.
Baby One More Time, though, is a definitely miss.
Also, haven't seen the Teenagers clip yet! Thanks. There's definitely something to be written about the common settings of nu-emo bands's videos (there's technically also a gym in "This Ain't a Scene," too).
Ash - "Burn Baby Burn"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW8mEMqiNhc
broken social scene did one:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JWGwylbB3PA
Circa 1996/1997: Puff Daddy's "All about the Benjamins" and Nada Surf's "Popular." That's when I quit paying attention.
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