Conrad wrote:
It really gets better quite a way in.
Which means it starts out like crap. ?
Really, I don't know what to think of stuff like this. Skip that, I do. It's cheesy "classical" music made to look like a big live rock show. I don't mind crossovers, but this doesn't do justice to either genre.
Looks like a bad '80s hair metal video: all leathers and teased hair, wristbands and monk's cowls, circles of flames on water and fans. Wouldn't be so bad if they had resisted the urge to add the pretentious title overlays at the beginning. Then it starts with the "music stuff" - dumbed down classical, better suited to a bad soundtrack than something you'd want to buy and listen to. It's all so transparently constructed to appeal to the visual senses rather than the ears. The woman pulling orgasmic faces, so it looks more like she actually has a PLeasureVibe2000 between her legs, rather than a cello...
And just when I was thinking "Well, at least they don't have a drummer with a sleeveless top. There's at least one cliché they skipped"... Lo and behold, but what should appear? ? I nearly choked on my coffee.
To be fair - there's one riff in there that shows the string players can both really play, but even that's inserted in such a way that it is more of a "look at them, they can really play" than as an integral part of a composition.
