Moones - Better Energy - Drunk In Session

June 27, 2013 7:40 PM

You can control how drunk Moones are in their newest music video for Better Energy. (SLYT, enable youtube annotations)
posted by rebent (14 comments total)

That's certainly one way of capturing the "gig" vibe in your music video. :)
posted by adamt at 8:01 PM on June 27, 2013

...they don't mean 80 beers per person, right? Because. Yeah.
posted by FirstMateKate at 9:01 PM on June 27, 2013

Also I think it's more interesting that you can change the camera angle.
posted by FirstMateKate at 9:01 PM on June 27, 2013

I found this highly entertaining. My, but those Brits can knock them back! I've put away that many in a night before, and all I did was livetweet watching the Dolly Parton/Queen Latifah vehicle 'Joyful Noise.'

*sits back, waits for parade of dour comments about how this is not funny at all and is a sign of the decline of society and alcohol abuse and hipsters and youtube and etc etc etc*
posted by whitneyarner at 9:54 PM on June 27, 2013 [1 favorite]

I assume that the count is total, meaning that they had sixteen beers each. That's not an unreasonable amount if you're talking a low alcohol content beer. I see that the singer gets a little slappy with his bandmates at sixteen, I guess we all have our limits, I tend to get kissy with dudes at like five but what can you do
posted by invitapriore at 10:12 PM on June 27, 2013

You know, it's really sad the way alcohol has come to abuse my youtube these days.

Won't somebody think of the hipsters!?
posted by mannequito at 11:23 PM on June 27, 2013

In the end, I'm not sure the execution was that great, and maybe it's just my affinity for choose-your-own-adventure novels coming through, but I really like the concept a lot. Very clever and creative.
posted by Lutoslawski at 11:25 PM on June 27, 2013

I love this video, in how they utilized youtube's annotation system (the camera angle feature alone kind of blew my mind), but I'd love to see a smoother application! Using different technology, like programming languages Processing or MAX, I'm picturing instantaneous cuts, or fades, etc. Very inspirational- thanks.
posted by synthedelic at 11:28 PM on June 27, 2013

I had no idea annotations could be made to link to "1:30 ahead of the current point" rather than just "2:45".

That is far and away the most interesting part of this, how it skips forward not just to the beginning of the song at the next camera angle or level of inebriation, but to the exact point you were at.

It makes me think you could possibly make a long youtube video that was essentially a sampler/looper and let you "build" a song in a choose your own adventure way, or many other interesting things...
posted by emptythought at 1:10 AM on June 28, 2013 [3 favorites]

Funny idea. I always found that two pints was the Goldilocks amount to down before going on stage. Any less than that and I'd be in danger of insufficient looseness. Any more and I'd be in danger of... well, you've all watched the video.
posted by Decani at 4:12 AM on June 28, 2013

Man, that bass player really needs to stare hard at his fretboard, doesn't he?
posted by Decani at 4:17 AM on June 28, 2013

What I've learned from this: Every band should shoot their videos drunk. But they should record the music sober.
posted by hanoixan at 5:14 AM on June 28, 2013

Ok, now do one on salvia.
posted by orme at 5:25 AM on June 28, 2013 [1 favorite]

What I've learned from this: I don't think I've been Keyboardist Drunk in over a decade. Also, Getting Old might just be the massive hangover from that rippling ahead through the time stream.
posted by Stunt at 9:32 AM on June 28, 2013