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...often forgotten, however, that he began his career on Broadway as a song-and-dance man, and a gifted one at that. Fittingly, due to his early skills, Walken can now add the music video to the list of art forms he has conquered.In the video for Fatboy Slim??s “Weapon of Choice,” the screen veteran sashays as if a Lord of the Dance title depended upon it. Helmed by big-shot director Spike Jonze, of “Being John Malkovich” fame, the video is a compendium of quintessential...
...Adaptation. His videos echo the anomalous juxtapositions often found in his films; in Daft Punk’s “Da Funk” he guides a six-foot speech-endowed dog through New York City, then orchestrates a meticulously choreographed aerial waltz with Christopher Walken in Fatboy Slim??s “Weapon of Choice.” Though Jonze’s collection is the most satisfying for its breadth of styles, the offerings are occasionally spotty and relatively shallow exercises...
...never fully replacing Graham Coxon’s missing axe. The emphasis here is clearly on sound and atmospherics rather than songwriting, and catchy guitar hooks are all but completely absent. Instead, they are replaced by winding synths that are every bit as infectious, yet sound unmistakably modern. Fatboy Slim??s production exposes new sides of Blur that were probably kept in check by Coxon’s conservative presence in the band...
...even about the videos. The New Yorker recently reported that the number of music videos on the channel that begot them dropped by a third between 1998 and 2000. Numbers aside, witness the atrocity that was the 2001 MTV Video Awards: The Spike Jonze-directed video for Fatboy Slim??s “Weapon of Choice” was clearly shafted when “Lady Marmalade” was awarded best video of the year. Apparently not even the sight of everyone’s favourite perennial film psycho shaking his booty across a hotel lobby could...