Blank Check — Patreon: David Fincher Music Videos

Published 2023-10-11; 2:36:46 by the feed.

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “David Fincher Music Videos”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims, Ben Hosley. Guests: Marie.

Subject films: none named.

On the transcript: No speaker labels; speakers are guessed from context, so confidences are modest. This is a playlist-commentary bonus episode, not a research dossier, and no cinematographers are named for the videos.

Films that came up

Claims (53)

craft (style echo): Bop Till You Drop (Rick Springfield video) → Alien 3. Marie notes the Springfield video already has industrial, alien-like imagery a decade before Alien 3.
“I was like, oh, wait, so he was already sort of doing... Industrial... Industrial... alien stuff like 10 years prior.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:06:19 · Marie Bardi (0.70 sure it was them)
people (actor): Dance This World Away (Rick Springfield video) → Ricky and the Flash. Springfield acts in Ricky and the Flash, which the show covered.
“we've discussed Rick Springfield on this show because he is in Ricky and the Flash.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:06:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (hiring reason): Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi → Bop Till You Drop (Rick Springfield video). Springfield was excited to work with Fincher because Fincher had worked on Return of the Jedi.
“Rick was really excited to be working with Fincher because while this is Fincher's 1st major music video, he had previously worked on Return of the Jedi.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:07:18 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (look): Shame (The Motels video) → One from the Heart. Venetian-blind, neon and painted-sunset imagery compared to One from the Heart.
“one from the heart, sort of like, um, painted backdrop sunset.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:11:11 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (first-choice director): Michael Mann → Shame (The Motels video). Martha Davis first wanted Michael Mann (after The Keep); he was unavailable and her agent suggested Fincher.
“originally expressed interest in working with Michael Mann after seeing his 1983 film The Keep.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:13:44 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (look): Shame (The Motels video) → Michael Mann. A host says the video's look screams Michael Mann.
“This screams Michael Mann.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:13:55 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (ad look): Charm the Snake (Christopher Cross video) → Marlboro commercial (as compared). The Christopher Cross video reads like a Marlboro ad.
“All right, so I'm getting like a general kind of Marlborough commercial right now.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:15:29 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (look): Charm the Snake (Christopher Cross video) → Days of Thunder. The racing, blues and oranges feel like a proto Days of Thunder.
“This feels very like proto days of Thunder.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:15:41 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (songwriter): Jon Bon Jovi → Notorious (Loverboy video). Loverboy's Notorious was written by Jon Bon Jovi.
“this song was written by John Bon Jovi.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:33:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (scored): Mark Knopfler → The Princess Bride. Knopfler did the whole score for The Princess Bride.
“Now, Mark Knopfler did the whole score for the Princess Pride.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:38:58 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (movie tie-in): Storybook Love (Mark Knopfler and Willie DeVille video) → The Princess Bride. The video is just the recording session with the movie playing behind it, which a host calls unambitious.
“That concept was incredibly unambitious, which is this is the recording session.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:41:30 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (look): Johnny B (The Hooters video) → Alien 3. The Hooters video enters through rusty pipes that feel like Alien 3.
“We entered into this environment through a bunch of rusty pipes that felt very alien three.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:42:01 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (movie tie-in): She's Like the Wind (Patrick Swayze video) → Dirty Dancing. The video leans on clips from Dirty Dancing.
“He's just getting some clips from dirty dancing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:46:37 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (song offered): Patrick Swayze → Youngblood. Swayze wrote the song and tried to sell it to Rob Lowe for Youngblood before Dirty Dancing.
“Swayze literally wrote this song. And wanted it to be before Dirty Dancing got made in the Rob Lowe film Youngblood.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:47:59 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (look): I Don't Mind at All (Bourgeois Tagg video) → Dune (David Lynch). The floating mirrors look like the armor in Lynch's Dune.
“They look a little bit like the armor in David Lynch's dune.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:49:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (producer): Todd Rundgren → I Don't Mind at All (Bourgeois Tagg video). The song was produced by Todd Rundgren.
“This song was produced by quite legendary musician Todd Rundgren.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:50:59 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (song in film): Gypsy Kings → Toy Story 3. The Gypsy Kings did a Spanish rendition of You've Got a Friend in Me for Toy Story 3.
“the Gypsy Kings did a rendition of, you've got a friend in me for Toy Story 3”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:56:52 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (song in film): Gypsy Kings → The Big Lebowski. The Gypsy Kings' Hotel California cover is in The Big Lebowski.
“they do that Hotel California cover in the Big Lebowski, which is awesome.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:57:58 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (influence): Gene Kelly → Paula Abdul. Gene Kelly is named as Paula Abdul's biggest inspiration.
“And of course, her biggest inspiration is a child, the aforementioned Gene Kelly.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:02:27 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (awards rival): Real Love (Jody Watley video) → Express Yourself (Madonna video). Real Love lost the best-direction VMA to Express Yourself, also Fincher's.
“because he lost to a video directed by, let me check my notes here. David Fincher.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:05:39 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (ripped off): Express Yourself (Madonna video) → Lady Gaga. A host says Lady Gaga ripped off Express Yourself.
“Lady Gaga completely ripped it off, of course, from... She did, but that's okay.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:07:32 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (visual homage): Josef von Sternberg → Madonna. A host says the Madonna-Fincher videos tap into a golden-age Hollywood, Dietrich and von Sternberg vibe.
“they're tapping into, like, a golden age of Hollywood slash Marlena Dietrich von Sternberg vibe.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:08:51 · Marie Bardi (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (visual homage): Metropolis → Express Yourself (Madonna video). A host says Express Yourself is obviously modeled on Metropolis.
“This one is obviously modeled on Metropolis, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:09:05 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (turned down): Warren Beatty → Express Yourself (Madonna video). Madonna wanted Warren Beatty as one of the cog-turning slaves; he declined.
“She wanted Warren Beatty to play one of the male slaves turning cogs in this movie and this, sorry, video.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:09:54 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (reused imagery): Bop Till You Drop (Rick Springfield video) → Express Yourself (Madonna video). A host says Express Yourself reuses the chain and industrial ideas from Bop Till You Drop at a higher level.
“this feels like he's reusing some of the Springfield stuff from that bop till you drop video, but like elevated... to a much, uh, more sophisticated level.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:10:11 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (favorite filmmaker): Bob Fosse → David Fincher. A host believes All That Jazz is one of Fincher's favorite films and Fosse a favorite filmmaker.
“I believe one of David Fincher's favorite movies or Fosse's one of his favorite filmmakers.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:12:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (cited influence): All That Jazz → Seven. A host recalls a Fincher film the show covered where he cited All That Jazz as an inspiration for the look, maybe Seven.
“where he cited how much of an inspiration all that jazz was for him for the look of the movie?”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:13:07 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
people (screened for crew): All That Jazz → David Fincher. A host read somewhere that All That Jazz was the movie Fincher screened for his crew as the style to match.
“I was just reading somewhere about like all that jazz being the movie that he screened for his crew a bunch.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:14:20 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (visual homage): All That Jazz → Cold Hearted (Paula Abdul video). A host reads that Cold Hearted was inspired by All That Jazz, and another says it directly references it.
“this film was uh, inspired by all that jazz, her belly button's exposed.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:14:36 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (same tribute): Oh Father (Madonna video) → Mank. Oh Father is a Kane tribute years before Fincher made Mank.
“Several years before David Fincher made Mank. This was his 1st Citizen Kane tribute.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:17:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (tribute): Citizen Kane → Oh Father (Madonna video). Oh Father is called Fincher's first Citizen Kane tribute.
“This was his 1st Citizen Kane tribute.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:17:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (tonal match): Hit Man (Richard Linklater) → Bernie. A host says Hit Man has huge Bernie vibes.
“Hit man, huge Bernie vibes.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:19:05 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career revival): Run DMC → Aerosmith. A host credits Run DMC for Aerosmith's reclamation as a video-era band.
“You got to give Run DMC a lot of credit for this, though.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:23:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (next wave): David Fincher → Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry and Hammer & Tongs. After the Madonna peak, Gondry, Jonze and Hammer & Tongs made more experimental, less star-driven videos.
“Gondry and Jones and Hammer and Tongs and all those people, start doing things that were more experimental and that were less star vehicles for the actual musical artists.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:29:01 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (pose homage): Greta Garbo → Vogue (Madonna video). The Vogue poses come from golden-age stars such as Veronica Lake, Bette Davis and Greta Garbo.
“Veronica Lake, Betty Davis, Greta Garbo, all these sort of poses of golden age stars”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:30:27 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (cultural source): Vogue (Madonna video) → Paris Is Burning. The Vogue controversy over appropriating queer Black culture is tied to Paris Is Burning.
“Which I'm sure you know, if you know anything about Paris is burning.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:31:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (movie tie-in): Cradle of Love (Billy Idol video) → The Adventures of Ford Fairlane. The Billy Idol video was attached to The Adventures of Ford Fairlane.
“Now, this video was somehow attached to the adventures of Ford Farlane.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:36:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (cover): The Doors → L.A. Woman (Billy Idol video). L.A. Woman is Billy Idol's cover of a Doors song.
“Which, of course, is a cover of a song by Ben's favorite band, the door,”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:41:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (recurring motif): Janie's Got a Gun (Aerosmith video) → Bad Girl (Madonna video). Bad Girl is the second Fincher work with detectives after Janie's Got a Gun.
“This is the second appearance of detectives in a Fincher work after Janey's got a gun.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:45:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (shared stars): Bad Girl (Madonna video) → Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara). Madonna and Walken are both in Abel Ferrara's Dangerous Game.
“And then she and Walkin are in the Abel Ferrara movie, Dangerous Game?”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:45:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (shared actor): Bad Girl (Madonna video) → Seven. An actor in Bad Girl is in Seven.
“Yeah, he's in seven. 7 episode, Griff.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:47:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (iconography reused): Freedom 90 (George Michael video) → Faith (George Michael video). Freedom 90 reuses Faith's iconography, such as the leather jacket and the exploding guitar.
“George Michael, iconography is in the video. Like, from the faith music video. You have the leather jacket.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:56:02 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (shared look): Real Love (Jody Watley video) → Freedom 90 (George Michael video). Both videos use the apartment-under-renovation look.
“The apartment under renovation.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:56:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (technique precursor): Love Is Strong (Rolling Stones video) → The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. A host guesses the Stones' giant-scale effects helped Fincher on Benjamin Button.
“Well, and I bet this helped for Benjamin Button eventually.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:59:12 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (legacy): Bob Dylan → Jakob Dylan. Ben hoped Jakob Dylan would be the next Dylan.
“I mean, I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 2:01:32 · Ben Hosley (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (same grade (joke)): Judith (A Perfect Circle video) → Seven. A host jokes Fincher handed the video to his team with the Seven preset and a bleach bypass.
“Give it the old 7 preset number two.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 2:09:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (ad look): Nine Inch Nails video (title not said) → Apple ad (as compared). The Nine Inch Nails video is essentially an extended Apple ad.
“Oh, this is essentially an only extended Apple ad.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 2:09:59 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (post-Gondry style): Nine Inch Nails video (title not said) → Michel Gondry. A host says the one-idea-done-well video feels post-Jonze and Gondry.
“But doesn't this feel like kind of post-Jones gondry where it's like, you just come up with one idea and you executor really well.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 2:13:27 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (actor): Justin Timberlake → The Social Network. A host does not think Timberlake is good in The Social Network.
“I don't even think he's good in the social network.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 2:16:56 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (company): David Fincher → Reset Content. Fincher has a commercial production company, Reset Content, that represents directors including himself.
“he has his own commercial production company called reset content.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 2:19:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (cover): David Bowie → Heroes (Wallflowers video, Godzilla soundtrack). Griffin learned Heroes was a Bowie cover, not a Wallflowers original.
“I didn't know Heroes was a David Bowie cover.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 2:25:55 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (movie tie-in): Heroes (Wallflowers video, Godzilla soundtrack) → Godzilla soundtrack. Heroes is the Wallflowers song on the Godzilla soundtrack.
“there's this song on the Godzilla soundtrack that is incredible.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 2:25:57 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (legacy sequel): Saw (first film) → Jigsaw. Jigsaw is described as the legacy sequel to the Saw series.
“Jigsaw is the legacy sequel, the Spirig Brothers.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 2:31:02 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

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fun, about Beavis and Butt-Head (TV series): The show stayed off DVD and streaming because half of every episode was commentary on music videos, which made rights tricky.
“It wasn't streaming for so long is because the rights were so fucking tricky because half of every episode was commenting on stuff.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:04:29 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Rick Springfield: Springfield owns one of the great Star Wars action figure collections, though by his own admission he is more a figure fan than a movie fan; the hosts tie it to Fincher's Return of the Jedi credit.
“Rick Springfield has one of the greatest Star Wars action figure collections in the world.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:07:31 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Bop Till You Drop (Rick Springfield video): Springfield, reading from his own site, says he wrote the song in Tahiti and was out of his mind.
“I wrote it in Tahiti, so I was out of my mind.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:10:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Shame (The Motels video): Martha Davis wanted Michael Mann after The Keep; he was unavailable, so her agent suggested Fincher.
“After man proved unavailable, Davis's agent recommended Fincher instead.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:13:57 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about David Fincher: A host says Fincher thinks the death of the music video cost a generation of visually distinctive filmmakers their training ground.
“the death of the music video has really been at the expense of a new generation of visually distinctive filmmakers coming up.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:32:11 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Blank Check (the movie): Marie reports the movie Blank Check was a favorite of Michael Jackson's.
“blank check was one of Michael Jackson's favorite films when he was alive.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:44:39 · Marie Bardi (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about She's Like the Wind (Patrick Swayze video): Swayze wrote the song himself and pitched it to Rob Lowe for Youngblood, who passed.
“He tried to sell it to Lowe. And low turned him down.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:48:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about David Fincher: Fincher is the most nominated and most winning director at the VMAs; his last video, Suit & Tie, was his final win.
“Did you know that David Fincher is the most nominated and most winningest VMA for best direction director ever?”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:05:10 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Express Yourself (Madonna video): A host calls it the third most expensive music video ever made.
“This is the 3rd most expensive music video ever made.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:09:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Express Yourself (Madonna video): Madonna wanted Warren Beatty to play a cog-turning slave in the video; he said no.
“And he said, no, I had no interest.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:10:01 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Oh Father (Madonna video): Madonna recalls her mother's lips being sewn at the open-casket funeral; the image is in the video.
“Um, she Madonna recalls that she, uh, noticed her lips had been sewn together at the open casket funeral.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:17:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Janie's Got a Gun (Aerosmith video): Steven Tyler flashed the shocker on his forehead in Disney's Rock and Roller Coaster pre-show until Disney digitally painted the finger out.
“And they digitally paint it in the remaining finger.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:26:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Iggy Pop video (Brick by Brick; title transcribed 'Beautiful stranger'): Iggy Pop on WTF explained his dad found it tough with the phrase 'theatricalizing the penis', which the hosts keep quoting.
“And he goes, you know, like theatricalizing the penis.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:33:50 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Iggy Pop video (Brick by Brick; title transcribed 'Beautiful stranger'): Beavis and Butt-Head praised the album's 'Butt Town'.
“Davis and Butthead praised it on their show with Butthead saying, this song has the best lyrics I've ever heard.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:34:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Cradle of Love (Billy Idol video): Andrew Dice Clay was banned from MTV, so the Ford Fairlane tie-in video could not include his clips.
“because Andrew Dice claim was banned from MTV, the video could not include clips of him.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:36:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Freedom 90 (George Michael video): George Michael is absent from his own video, which Griffin recommends alongside the Wham documentary.
“This music video he does not appear in at all.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:52:02 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Freedom 90 (George Michael video): Most of the wardrobe budget went to one item, Christy Turlington's sweater; the other supers wore their own clothes.
“Most of the wardrobe budget for this went to the sheet.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:56:26 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Reset Content: Fincher's commercial company represents Garth Davis, Guy Ritchie, J.C. Chandor, Joseph Kosinski, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Trey Edward Shults and Wally Pfister.
“he has his own commercial production company called reset content.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 2:19:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (TV series): The Sting episode's mandolin double entendre line is held up as the moment the show was doomed.
“And Sarah Paulson says, him or the mandoline, and she goes both.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 2:24:01 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Heroes (Wallflowers video, Godzilla soundtrack): Griffin thought Jakob Dylan wrote Heroes and was sure he would be the next Dylan.
“He's going to live up to the legacy of his father.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 2:25:50 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Saw VI: Saw VI's victim is a health insurance claims adjuster who denied Jigsaw's claim, which David finds satisfying.
“Now, Saw 6 is the one where, um, uh, a health insurance claims adjuster is the one being tortured.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 2:28:23 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Griffin Newman (host): Loves music videos tied to movie soundtracks and the weirdly sincere Springfield video. Grew up on Disney cassettes, Hanson, and Celebrity Death Match era pop culture. Appreciates a sprawling, nonsensical video that sets up multiple characters.
David Sims (host): Reads the Wikipedia tidbits and Fincher lore, loves Madonna and Fincher's glamorous Vogue-era work, and is a Dirty Dancing evangelist. Is the Brit in the room and a soft touch for pop. Sour on Justin Timberlake as a performer.
Ben Hosley (host): Producer and the group's music scholar: Bob Dylan, Nine Inch Nails, industrial. Loves the Stones; hates the Doors. Picked many of the dumb videos and annotated the spreadsheet.
Marie Bardi (guest): Madonna devotee with film-school training (NYU Cinema Studies), loves Alien 3 and the Fincher-Madonna videos, picks Bad Girl as her new discovery. Likes music-video visual gags and tiny people.

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Iggy Pop video title garbled as 'Beautiful stranger', unresolved
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