Armor For Sleep - The Truth About Heaven (2005)
**1/2 (of four)
The leadoff single from the album What To Do When You Are Dead isn't playing around about the great beyond. It seems the frontman - in hopes of being the white Biggie or Pac or Pun or Left Eye or Aaliyah or Malcolm X or Martin Luther King Jr. or Otis Redding or Marvin Gaye - is hoping to become a bigger legend as a corpse than a living, breathing emo rock star.
So he spends the entire video in a state of limbo, haunting (or comforting, depending on your perspective) the girlfriend he left behind. His bandmates are dead with him, and I imagine they want to be loyal friends and all, but they're probably pissed they have to spend their afterlife watching their buddy stare at his fucking high school sweetheart. Though occasionally she probably does take a shower or have a ticklefight with her girlfriends during a sleepover. There are minor perks.
He and the other Armor For Sleep guys first perform in the street in front of her house, where they're surprised to see cars driving right through them. Then, my favorite, they're seen perched on the front porch and upper eaves of the house. Then on top of the car she rides to the beach in with some friends.
At the beach, in the video's clear dramatic climax (uh huh), the dead frontman watches his girlfriend talk to a new guy and then abruptly get up and leave him. Cut to triumphant look on the dead frontman's face, as he realizes his girlfriend will carry on a miserable celibate existence in his absence. It's the minor details that count in these pop-crossover, indie-rock videos.
The leadoff single from the album What To Do When You Are Dead isn't playing around about the great beyond. It seems the frontman - in hopes of being the white Biggie or Pac or Pun or Left Eye or Aaliyah or Malcolm X or Martin Luther King Jr. or Otis Redding or Marvin Gaye - is hoping to become a bigger legend as a corpse than a living, breathing emo rock star.
So he spends the entire video in a state of limbo, haunting (or comforting, depending on your perspective) the girlfriend he left behind. His bandmates are dead with him, and I imagine they want to be loyal friends and all, but they're probably pissed they have to spend their afterlife watching their buddy stare at his fucking high school sweetheart. Though occasionally she probably does take a shower or have a ticklefight with her girlfriends during a sleepover. There are minor perks.
He and the other Armor For Sleep guys first perform in the street in front of her house, where they're surprised to see cars driving right through them. Then, my favorite, they're seen perched on the front porch and upper eaves of the house. Then on top of the car she rides to the beach in with some friends.
At the beach, in the video's clear dramatic climax (uh huh), the dead frontman watches his girlfriend talk to a new guy and then abruptly get up and leave him. Cut to triumphant look on the dead frontman's face, as he realizes his girlfriend will carry on a miserable celibate existence in his absence. It's the minor details that count in these pop-crossover, indie-rock videos.
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