Everybody Hurts

Surfed a lot on YouTube today. Came across some very old music videos which I had seen growing old way back in the early nineties.

Over time, the music changed and so did the habits. There is hardly any time these days to sit back and keep watching MTV for songs that you love. But most importantly, the videos themselves are not a patch of what they used to be.

Take for example, Everybody Hurts by REM. What a song! And what an amazing video! Shot in a typical traffic jam with hundreds of cars and thousands of people stuck. And as the song progresses, the camera slowly romances the pain and angst on the faces of various people. All this with supers of what their thoughts are when stuck there. Till the time when they all just abandon their cars and start walking freely on the road. A superb metaphor of life, the baggages we carry and how stuck we are with nowhere to go.

There was a time when the music video was an art form in itself. Am not really sure if that still holds true.