- old woman walking a dog in a dark, industrial area
- her dog urinates on a abandoned tv on the ground
- the tv unexpectedly turns into life and kinda of un-leases an evil spirit, along with a gang of small children who go around a old building trashing it and scaring a man into his car
- a demand emerges from the tv and screams in the old women’s face and then gathers the children around him
- there is a random break of girls singing softly, holding hands and skipping
Info:
- the kids are wearing masks to look like Richard D. James
- the lyrics are VERY simple: I want your soul, I want to eat your soul, come to daddy
- the video was inspired by the time he was 14 and was chased by a 9 year old with a hammer
- director: Chris Cunningham ( British 1970 )
- song came out in 1997 - and is one of Aphex Twins best songs.
- genre of music: Hardcore Techno, Drill n Base, Electro-Industrial, IDM
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Thoughts:
- even though the lyrics are not meaningful the sound of the music makes it meaningful
- the music video has parts that are similar to scary movies: The Shining ( when the little girls skip and sing softly kind of like a nursery rhyme ) and Nightmare on Elm Street ( when the tv turns on and comes alive )
- very repetitive
- very kaotic cuts, fast pase,
- Richard made a kind of bad song good with the amazing, and powerful video
- music is fast and changes often
- I find it terrifying and the song and video together is kind of chilling
- the music is very disturbing even with out the video
- music has swirling noise and kind of distorted screaming that is hard to understand but has boarding lyrics anyways
- complex images at the start hard to understand but keps you interested
- the part with the little girls singing softly and skipping is creepy and gives the whole music video a crazy vibe that fits
- for people who enjoy this kind of music and twisted videos its amazing
- I would never listen to this genre of music but it was interesting an well done
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