Today, Cut Copy shared the video for its song "Meet Me in a House of Love," from its most recent album Free Your Mind. Here are my thoughts on the video after watching it just one time.
1. This episode of this particular talk show must be taking place during a writer's strike, because that's the only other time I've seen a talk show host with a beard.
2. I'm pretty sure I spotted David Crosby in that fake audience. Hopefully they cut back to it so I can see if there's anyone else I recognize.
3. These black and white cardboard-cut outs remind me of the video for Pulp's "Disco 2000," which features black and white cardboard cut-outs of the band sitting and standing around in various places.
4. Do talk shows like this even exist anymore? I mean the kind of show like Dick Cavett used to do, where a few famous guests like Groucho Marx and Truman Capote would just sit around and chat about pretty much anything. They should bring those back.
5. Okay, the third time it cut back to the fake audience, I spotted another famous person: Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre.
6. Is this bearded guy even in the band? I don't know anything about Cut Copy. I'm pretty sure the cut-outs are band members, though.
7. That is a beautiful synthesizer he's playing, or at least pretending to play.
8. Famous audience member #3: Mark E. Smith, lead singer of the Fall. He hasn't changed a bit since the '70s.
9. Possible famous audience member #4: Oscar Wilde? Or at least someone who looks like Oscar Wilde.
10. Upon further inspection (and a convenient close-up), that is not Oscar Wilde. It's just some guy with long hair, or most likely, some famous person I'm just not familiar with.
11. The cut-out of the saxophonist immediately reminds me of something that would be on Tim & Eric, and the fact that the camera zooms in three different times only makes it better. There's just something inherently hilarious about saxophones for me, and I have no idea why.
12. This is the first Cut Copy song I've ever heard, and I'm impressed. I assumed they were some chillwave or witch house band or whatever the default mode for indie electronic music is these days, but this is just a great pop song. It's even got some late '90s/early '00s techno vibes to it, which I never thought I'd consider as a plus, but it sounds fresh compared to all the EDM and dubstep clichés we're bombarded with.
