Talk Talk - "It's My Life"
Apr 2, 2024 10:45:27 GMT -5
Post by areyoureadytojump on Apr 2, 2024 10:45:27 GMT -5
I cannot find a thread for this. There used to be one.
40 years ago this week, "It's My Life" debuted at #87 on the March 24, 1984 Billboard Hot 100.
The video EMI forced the band to do:
Live in 1984:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_My_Life_(Talk_Talk_song)
#1 Dance
#23 Rock
#31 Billboard Hot 100
#31 R&R: gghunt.utasites.cloud/charts/talktalk.html
#46 UK
Music video:
There are two versions of the video for "It's My Life". The first, envisioned by director Tim Pope as a statement against the banality of lip-synching, consists almost entirely of footage from the 1979 BBC wildlife documentary Life on Earth, interspersed with shots of Talk Talk lead singer Mark Hollis standing in various places throughout the London Zoo. He keeps his hands in his coat pockets and his mouth pointedly shut tight, the latter often obscured by hand-drawn animated lines that occasionally appear in the documentary footage sequences as well.
The second version, recorded at the behest of EMI, consisted of the entirety of the original video projected on a green screen behind Hollis on guitar and vocals as well as his two bandmates as they lip-synched and mimed the song, deliberately poorly and with comic exaggerated gestures.
40 years ago this week, "It's My Life" debuted at #87 on the March 24, 1984 Billboard Hot 100.
The video EMI forced the band to do:
Live in 1984:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_My_Life_(Talk_Talk_song)
#1 Dance
#23 Rock
#31 Billboard Hot 100
#31 R&R: gghunt.utasites.cloud/charts/talktalk.html
#46 UK
Music video:
There are two versions of the video for "It's My Life". The first, envisioned by director Tim Pope as a statement against the banality of lip-synching, consists almost entirely of footage from the 1979 BBC wildlife documentary Life on Earth, interspersed with shots of Talk Talk lead singer Mark Hollis standing in various places throughout the London Zoo. He keeps his hands in his coat pockets and his mouth pointedly shut tight, the latter often obscured by hand-drawn animated lines that occasionally appear in the documentary footage sequences as well.
The second version, recorded at the behest of EMI, consisted of the entirety of the original video projected on a green screen behind Hollis on guitar and vocals as well as his two bandmates as they lip-synched and mimed the song, deliberately poorly and with comic exaggerated gestures.