Saturday, September 21, 2019
My all-time favorite music video
What's not to love? This video has all of the following:
1) It's a stationary marching band blocking the sidewalk in the middle of the night for no apparent reason.
2) Then there's the random dancing girl at the far right, who appears just to be a passer-by who got into it.
3) At 0:45, we have the off-kilter singing of the lyrics to "The Love Boat," at which point the drum major throws it in and just joins the group.
4) Then, for about thirty second, the whole thing seems to be on the verge of devolving into just yelling until....
5) At 1:23, one drum picks up the song again and the chaos resolves back into song.
6) Then, at 1:38, the volunteer dancing girl totally gets her groove on.
7) At 2:15, the band ties up the song by inexplicably chanting "Love Boat! No Mercy!"
8) Then, at 2:20, they launch into the classic "Bulldog," written by Cole Porter when he was a Yale student, and out of nowhere a completely-out-of-place professional-grade SEC-style baton twirler appears.
9) At 2:45, more singing. And some barking. Because, "Bulldog."
10) Then, at 3:20, sirens are heard (apparently, someone called the cops on the Yale Precision Marching Band) and the Sousaphones are seen making a run for it-- they probably have a warrant out for them.
All in all... that's autumn gold, man.
