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14 May 2010

Watch/compare: “Used” by Sasha Sacket & two NIN videos

Just caught this video on NewNowNext Music and nearly fast-forwarded through it but then it sucked me in.  It’s a pretty well-done video for a new artist and the song itself isn’t all that bad, either.  Goth-y people + piano = relatively okay!

But, wait a minute.  That spinning around on your back while mid-air sure looks familiar, no?  Nine Inch Nails much?  Watch it again at 1:30 and then watch “Closer” at the 1:28 mark:

The entire distorted Victorian theme really reminded me, too, of my favorite NIN video, “The Perfect Drug.”  All the way from 1997:

Assuming that Sasha Sacket wasn’t influenced by Trent Reznor and his band would be completely silly.  And thinking that director Sean Morris wasn’t inspired by Mark Romanek is on another level of absurd entirely.  It’s just funny seeing ideas from over a decade ago being trotted out as (convincingly) fresh.

Dusty, where are you?

This is from a time when car-buying was apparently awesome.  From a GM sales brochure for the 1957 Cadillac Eldorado.    A bar.  In the glovebox.  Of an everyday passenger car.  This beats having vodka in the trunk, no?