Posts Tagged ‘music video’
Detroit Music Video: Detroit Girls By Starz
OK, so this isn't really a music video, but it was just too good to pass up. Close your eyes and listen to this one with the volume up really loud. Your listening pleasure will be greatly multiplied by dancing in your skivvies in front of a mirror with a hairbrush microphone. We promise it'll take you back and make you love being a Detroit Girl [...]
Detroit Music Video: A Long Time by Mayer Hawthorne
This week's Detroit Music Video is A Long Time by Mayer Hawthorne. In the clip, Mayer takes his turn as local performer on the one-time super popular Detroit and Highland Park dance shows. The video makes us want to get up and shake it, but also reminds us of the desolate stretches of Woodward between Highland Park and Detroit. It's an era [...]
Detroit Music Video: 50 Misses Deep by Lola Damone
If you remember Detroit in 2001, then you remember Drunken Master and Lola Damone. This was before there was a "Midtown" or any hint of gentrification and the city was a different place. If you're feeling nostalgic for a time when players "grew like mildew" and people still wore FUBU, check out the music video for 50 Players Deep/50 Misses [...]
Detroit Music Video: Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number
Aaliyah Age Ain't Nothing but a Number This video is so classically Detroit. Not only does it feature a young Aaliyah walking through a Detroit parking lot with her high school friends, but also Proof - who makes his debut at the 2:13 mark with a big smile and a head full of dreads. Today DGAT wants to remember two amazing talents that [...]
Crystal Castles Comes to Town
Ditch the pajamas and TiVo your Sunday night television show on March 13, because Crystal Castles will be putting on a different kind of show that night. The sure to be electric concert will feature special guests Teengirl Fantasy. Crystal Castles' consists of duo Alice Glass and Ethan Kath from our friendly neighbor Canada. Together they have [...]
Detroit Music Video: Slum Village “Climax”
"I want you right here in the world Bein' wit' you all alone It's like a dream's come true" Many female Hip Hop fans fell for Slum Village when they first heard "Climax". The song is so smooth and flirtatious that you can't help but to sing along to the hook - it's like having a clever guy flirting with you, you might not believe what he's saying [...]
DMV: Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head by Sufjan Stevens
From the trembling walls. It's a great idea! Everything you want. It's a great idea! Sufjan Stevens, a Detroit born and Michigan raised singer/songwriter, wrote his own ode to Detroit in "Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)." The #8 track in the 2003 album, Greeting from Michigan: The Great Lake State, "Detroit" [...]
Detroit Music Video: The Drug by Röyksopp
The saddest thing about this video is not that I can identify the locations, it's that my old high school is used in some of the shots. Although the Detroit School of Arts moved into a new building, its old building did not look the way it does in the video when it closed five years ago. This music video ruin porn by Royksopp represents a common [...]
Detroit Music Video: Detroit 442 – Blondie
Debbie Harry did more than sing about her heart of glass and rap about men from Mars, she also sang about Detroit! Actually, more-so about the classic Oldsmobile 442 with a few brief nods to the town that birthed it. Of course, with the mentions of plants and assembily lines, Detroit girls know exactly what she was talking about. "In [...]
Detroit Music Video: Put Your Hands Up For Detroit
This needs no explanation. Just do it. Now. Be safe at Movement and check out our live tweets, photos, and coverage all weekend.
