Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move (video)

This is the hipster version of a Hype Williams video.

Not the biggest fan of this band but I love this video.

Llama's instead of hootchie momma's

Needs more crane

high quality version and more at http://stillnessisthemove.com/

I wish I had more arms to give that song and video four thumbs down.

killer.

Most overrated album in many many fortnights

this video is a disaster

Good call Anon 10:09. Beford Ave ballin'. I love how that alpaca tried to get the fuck away from clowntown at the very end. Stupid animal didn't know art was being made!

we have to get a job/
get a job as a wai-AY-ter as/
maybe waiting tables in - a diner

Not if tens of thousands of morons have anything to say about it.

they were all hanging out at the Dr Dog / Phosphorescent show at Prospect Park

TLC > Dirty Projectors

When something is incredibly overhyped, the only thing left to do is knock it down and hate on everyone who agrees with the pumped up reviews.

Bitte Orca is not amazing but it is a fun summertime album. Very creative and enjoyable but not monumentally breaktrough. Definitely not best of the year but will most prob make my year end top 10.

Who overhyped it?

Michael Jackson > Dirty Projectors

cinematography was ultra pretencious. they should have made a $99 vid, not this big budget debacle.

"pretencious"?

"pretencious"

ULTRA LOL!!!

Anon 10:56 - Spelling is for the burjwah. You probly live in Williamsburg.

And Amber Coffman is established as the new indie fanboy crush girl...

That said, her singing is ver ver nice and I like that Mr. "Clowntown (lol)" Longstreth takes a back seat in the video to showcase her (and the backup singers).

Let's get this shit on TRL!

I don't want no scrub
A scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me
Hanging out the passenger side
Of his best friend's ride
Trying to holler at me

I don't know about the rest of you but i, for one, CAN'T WAIT to see the full year end Top Ten list from Anonymous 10:41.

it's probably the most anticipated top ten list of 2009.

Love most of the album but this song and video just flat out suck!!! Why is there a lama in this vid? Looks like an episode of xena warrior princess

I like the song a lot less after seeing this hammy video.

I love how the girls are TLC now.

hammer pants are back!

i know rare llamas, and these, sir, are no rare llamas

It's always great to have videos for songs, but what I really like is the 12" 'Stillness is the Move' vinyl single. Lucky Dragons remix.... tasty.

imo the song is fantastic, but that video was atrocious. why bother renting a llama?

Guys, I tried to spare you from experiencing shit like this. The car crash didn't work out, but I'll do my best to work something out when the tour resumes.

^^ That's just f'ed up man.. No need to go that far!

die

Can you rent two Alpacas for the price $ of one llama?

This is a million times better then the latest Grizzly Bear video. Why does everyone hate llamas . . ?

This shit is so horrible.

Right, don't hate on the llama. And if you can't be with the one you love, then love the llama you're with.

dO's gurlzarr hott!!

Dalai "the dirty" Lama likes it.

i'd rather watch and listen to mary j blige or beyonce.

this reminds me of jewel.

llamas are really cute.

Unforgivable mediocre video for a potentially good band.

It reminds me the worst of the MTV. This is the kind of video that executives of SONY and people in the music industry in general will love. With this new-age aesthetics and clean image that appeals a lot to the advertisement industry. I imagine seeing it soon on airport TV screens, shopping centers, etc.

The led singer, Dave Longstreth is a very talented and creative mucisian and the girls that accompany him make nice contributions with their beautiful vocals but I honestly don't understand this 'commercial turn' that they have experienced recently. When they play acoustic is just gorgeous sound. Now they have a drummer who plays like he is a rock metal band, and their sound is very commercial in character.

The video is trying to place us in medieval Europe but the image of the landscape that we get simply doesn't match. You can see in the video many little pines that are not naturally there but have been artificially planted by humans (maybe to replace trees that were cut by a forest company sometime ago).

This situation was unseen in the countryside landscape of medieval Europe where trees were abundant so people didn't need to plant renewals back. On top of that Llamas live in relatively deserted places (e.g. Los Andes altiplano in South America) whereas trees are scarce. It's like they are confusing Llamas with deers.

I agree that in fiction you can perfectly recombine things in arbitrary ways, and you don't need to care too match if they match reality or not. But at least you have to be conscious of what is real and what is not, and I am not sure that Mr. Lessner -the director- was.

Some time ago, the young french video maker Vincent Moon did a masterpiece of a video for Dirty Projectors. It was shot here in Washington Square New York, their own hometown, with the members of the band 'acting' as themselves.

Moon made that video probably for free. Now we have this 'professional' pretentious director Matthew Lessner, with lost of resources available, and an excellent band to work with. And the result is that he couldn't offer us anything better than a mediocre commercial clip. As if we haven't been bombarded enough with this kind of stuff since the invention of that stupid genre of the music video clip back in the 80s.

Carlos Molina

Vincent Moon video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCD9LDE_LX8

"artificially planted by humans"

Yeah, it sounds like scary stuff, but last time I checked humans were part of nature, thus if they plant trees, then...um, one would have to their planting would have to be considered natural. Otherwise a compelling analysis...although plural for deer is deer, not deers.

Although I have seen their name bantered about, this is my first exposure to this band's music...and I hope it is my last.

Llama se, llama sa, llama kousa!

Whatever man, they're just having fun with their shit. Who cares about the video. The song is good.

I bet you this video did not cost more than $5,000. Sometimes a creative director can get an amazing effect on very little budget.

god this band sucks. it's just an "i can sing better than you" shitshow and these girls are all trying to be r&b singers and have a riff-off. it's a nightmare.

you people need to chill. its a music video that no one will pay attention to in a couple of weeks...

i knew i hated this video when i saw the screencap. wtf are they wearing? the only cool part was Dlo revolving on the mountaintop. i love dp but this video is awful, awful, awful.

Remember the Ewoks from the forest moon of Endor? I think they could easily appear at any point in this video.

I see it was a bit nippy on that mountain.

i think the slight r&b reference was an obvious parody to fit the song. i really don't think this video is awful or atrocious. who are you people? everybody's a critic, geez. don't hate!

I liked this video a lot. I think DP are one of the more creative bands out right now.

I challenge all the people that bag on this band to open up Garageband on their macs and to create something worth listening to and a try making a video for it too...

It is a lot easier to make fun of something than it is to revolutionize music, the way the Dirty Projectors are right now. I am in awe of their ability to sound completely fresh every time I hear them. In my opinion, that is more than can be said for Daft Punk or whatever you people listen to...

Trl's dead!

Yeah, this video is laughably bad. Great song, but they just look so awkward doing the miming and dance routines. It's painful to watch.