Some Views On The Tomorrow Video

Everyone's got their own opinions on music videos, especially classics like the Tomorrow video. (After all, it *was* the video that introduced a lot of the world to silverchair.) Here, I have transcribed two conversations about the video. Read on, relate, and enjoy!

Mom's Introduction to the 'chair
(Introduction starts)
Mom: Well, this isn't so bad.
(First appearance of pig man)
Mom: What's with the pig guy?
Me: I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be symbolic. The song's about this pampered rich guy, so the pig would mean greed.
Mom: Oh. Is that the drummer in disguise?
Me: No.
(Can you tell Mom wasn't wearing her reading glasses?)
Mom: These guys don't sing very well, do they?
Me: Actually, Mom, that's got a lot to do with Daniel's taste in music. He had a lot of respect for this band called Pearl Jam when this song was written.
(Of course, Mom doesn't know who Pearl Jam are, and I end up explaining it later.)
Mom: Are there any shots of the other two guys?
Me: Yeah, but you've got to watch for them cause they're really brief. Video directors love to focus on the singer!
Mom: So the other guys don't sing?
Me: No, but at a show earlier this year, something went wrong with Chris' bass, so to kill time while it was being fixed, Ben got up from the drum kit and sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
Mom: That's really bizarre. It doesn't surprise me that you know that.
(Shot of pig man in chair)
Mom: So is that chair the pig guy's throne or what?
Me: I'd have to go with yes.
(More shots of the band)
Mom: This song doesn't really have much of a melody to it.
Me: Well, it doesn't sound like what you're used to because music's gotten more, you know, experimental.
Mom: But Brian Wilson did stuff much more experimental than this in the Sixties!
Me: Mom, he may have been a genius, but I'll still choose Emotion Sickness over Good Vibrations any day!
(Daniel's little close-up)
Mom: Is it over?
Me: Yep.
(Black Hole Sun video comes on)
Mom: Is there more?
Me: No, this is a different video.
(To make a long story short, I had to explain who Soundgarden were. Mom thought the people in the video were really creepy, and I had to make up some stuff about all alternative videos being weird when the lizard girl flicked out her tongue.)

Beavis and Butthead's Two Cents

(Daniel: ...but I'll ask anywaaaaaaaaaay...)
Butt-head: That song's stupid!
Beavis: Huh-huh, yeah!
(Shot of Chris - and his long, curly hair)
Beavis: Hey, get a haircut, hippie!
Butt-head: Yeah, this isn't the Sixties, dillhole!
Beavis: Yeah! My uncle didn't go to Vietnam just so you could go around with long, HIPPIE BOY hair with your shirt off - dammit!
Butt-head: Uh, your uncle never went to Vietnam, Beavis. He was in jail, huh-huh.
(Daniel: Very hard to driiiiiiiink...)
Beavis: Yeah, that's what I said! My uncle didn't go to Vietnam, so you could have long hair, see? That's what I meant.
Butt-head: You're a stupid, dumb bunghole, Beavis.
Beavis: I am not. Shut up, Butt-head!
Butt-head: I think this is supposed to be, like, freaking us out, but I'm like, un-freaked.
(Shot of llama)
Beavis: Yeah, yeah, really.
Butt-head: In fact, this video's like making me feel totally normal.
Beavis: Yeah, yeah, this is just a normal video like we see, really.
Butt-head: Yeah, it's like you know if I turned on the TV and this was on, I'd just go yep, that's what I thought I was gonna see. Huh-huh.
Beavis: Huh-huh.

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