{"id":4544,"date":"2020-04-27T19:18:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T01:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/?p=4544"},"modified":"2025-08-03T16:36:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:36:30","slug":"everybody-dance-now-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/27\/everybody-dance-now-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody Dance Now 3: Listen to Your Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s been a year since the last edition<\/a> of Everybody Dance Now. Today we look at some movement-and-music videos as well as several music promos that feature choreography and companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Down Under(ground)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

According<\/a> to Wikipedia, in the 1990s members of what would become the Australian band The Avalanches shopped for instruments and studio equipment at second-hand stores whereby they also amassed a massive record collection from which they employed 3,500 samples on their debut album Since I Left You<\/em>, handily demonstrated by the promo video for “Frontier Psychiatrist<\/a>.” That video depicts an elaborate radio-drama stage \u00e0 la David Lynch’s On the Air<\/em><\/a>, with each of the LP samples acted out in improbable succession. (It’s codirected by Tom Kuntz, of Smell like a Man, Man<\/a> fame, who also directed Bumblebeez’s “Dr. Love” from last time<\/a>.) The promo for the album’s title track, below, turns to cinema, but then takes a turn. It won directors Rob Leggatt and Leigh Marling (Blue Source) Best Video at the 2001 MTV Europe Music Awards. But it was not the band’s original idea for the song. “We wrote a treatment,” said<\/a> Avs member Robbie Chater, “involving syncronised swimmers on [an] ocean liner and we were told no by the record company.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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