Yesterday, while watching CMT, I saw Kenny Chesney's newest music video/single "Don't Blink," and it was set at the Farnsworth House, designed by Mies, where Kenny is wearing a black cowboy hat on the porch, while the "middle-aged man" is seated in the living room on a Barcelona chair.
I've also seen Jason Aldean's "Why" video set at a modernist house. I understand music videos being filmed with modern architecture... but country?
And I totally agree... It's just seems that most of "traditional America", which is much of country music's audience, frowns upon modernist architecture, especially residential. I guess that I'm one of the few people that like Miesian architecture and newer country music...
country music and modernism don't mix... I can't imagine any architect working in their studio cranking out a slick modern project while listening to "Way Down Yonder on the Chattahoochie..."
Cash is different - more rockabilly/bluesy than country... Old country is good though - George Jones, Cash, Willie, etc. And Cash wore a lot of black, so he's like an architect by default...
I just can't stand that new breed of country though...
if i may, i think the point is that bad overproduced, uninspired, unoriginal, and marketable-only music with little truth and honesty put forward by the author/performer don't mix with modernist 'ideals', which is valid.
by the same logic listening to warrant, dokken, stryper, enuf znuf, britney fox, reo speedwagon, nickelback, etc. might not be the best choices to nourish modernist principles...
Well stated, work for idle hands, and that raises the question, what's good "Modern" music?
Kraftwerk?
PS My mom was raised a pig farm and my dad on a dairy farm, both in North Carolina - so I quite comfortably call myself a redneck often. I take no offense.
after watching the video, the story seem to say that the dude living in the farnsworth house came from country roots and has moved away from it: the frame switches back and forth from the modern imagery of the farnsworth house and the laptop to low res, like a vague memory, film scenes of childhood experiences in the country...
the lyrics is about the country 'ideals' of a slow paced life and the image of the farnsworth is the opposition...
and kenny chesney is singing from an outsider's point of view: the house is behind him...like a narrator.
you can't toss cash out there to defend country music, same goes for hank sr. they're legends. now if you say you design to alan jackson or some other such shit, then, i can respect that.
check out the raster-noton label aus DE. have some of the most pleasing, parsed packaging around
other good modern music (note this music is subtle and heavily layered, much like my view of the modern world):
loscil
murcof
the dead texan
vladislav delay
or for fall back, cage and glass.
country is disgusting.
especially that modern trash my neighbors are always blasting.
i wonder what chesney would think of if he could read twbta's "slowness"
funny, I almost started a thread about this topic when I stumbled on the video, but on closer consideration, I even wondered if it WAS Farnsworth or a mock-up built solely as a stage for the video.
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Kenny Chesney music video at Mies' Farnsworth House
Yesterday, while watching CMT, I saw Kenny Chesney's newest music video/single "Don't Blink," and it was set at the Farnsworth House, designed by Mies, where Kenny is wearing a black cowboy hat on the porch, while the "middle-aged man" is seated in the living room on a Barcelona chair.
I've also seen Jason Aldean's "Why" video set at a modernist house. I understand music videos being filmed with modern architecture... but country?
why? because the farnsworth house looks amazing
don't blink
And I totally agree... It's just seems that most of "traditional America", which is much of country music's audience, frowns upon modernist architecture, especially residential. I guess that I'm one of the few people that like Miesian architecture and newer country music...
wow maybe people who listen to shitty music will start commisioning architects to design their glass and steel houses.
Shitty music like this?
whatever, its a badass house and maybe, just maybe, some southern redneck may not find modernism repulsive after all.
Apurimac - could you be more racist?
I just threw up in my mouth a little bit...
'cuse me evil I AM A REDNECK!
Born in AZ, raised partially in GA.
And you know what? I even think Larry The Cable guy is funny, after I've been through a few Buds.
Oh - well theyre all a bunch of rednecks down in GA, carry on
j, i frankly prefer squirrel. I find it lighter on the palate than opossum. You goin' shooting tonight?
country music and modernism don't mix... I can't imagine any architect working in their studio cranking out a slick modern project while listening to "Way Down Yonder on the Chattahoochie..."
again, that idea is flawed, I'm a staunch modernist and I blast Johnny Cash in the studio.
Cash is different - more rockabilly/bluesy than country... Old country is good though - George Jones, Cash, Willie, etc. And Cash wore a lot of black, so he's like an architect by default...
I just can't stand that new breed of country though...
agreed, it is made of fail. I thought you were lashing out at country in general though.
if i may, i think the point is that bad overproduced, uninspired, unoriginal, and marketable-only music with little truth and honesty put forward by the author/performer don't mix with modernist 'ideals', which is valid.
by the same logic listening to warrant, dokken, stryper, enuf znuf, britney fox, reo speedwagon, nickelback, etc. might not be the best choices to nourish modernist principles...
well, maybe not stryper.
hes a commie ^
^agreed
Well stated, work for idle hands, and that raises the question, what's good "Modern" music?
Kraftwerk?
PS My mom was raised a pig farm and my dad on a dairy farm, both in North Carolina - so I quite comfortably call myself a redneck often. I take no offense.
if you hate country, then you need to chill out. it's relaxing and you should open your musical tastes up!
This man appreciates good architecture.
after watching the video, the story seem to say that the dude living in the farnsworth house came from country roots and has moved away from it: the frame switches back and forth from the modern imagery of the farnsworth house and the laptop to low res, like a vague memory, film scenes of childhood experiences in the country...
the lyrics is about the country 'ideals' of a slow paced life and the image of the farnsworth is the opposition...
and kenny chesney is singing from an outsider's point of view: the house is behind him...like a narrator.
you can't toss cash out there to defend country music, same goes for hank sr. they're legends. now if you say you design to alan jackson or some other such shit, then, i can respect that.
sorry man, despite the redneck background, i don't like new country
hell, i'm sure corb was designing to "my son calls another man daddy."
anyways, it's still a great song. great message.
lb -
kraftwerk? noooo way.
check out the raster-noton label aus DE. have some of the most pleasing, parsed packaging around
other good modern music (note this music is subtle and heavily layered, much like my view of the modern world):
loscil
murcof
the dead texan
vladislav delay
or for fall back, cage and glass.
country is disgusting.
especially that modern trash my neighbors are always blasting.
i wonder what chesney would think of if he could read twbta's "slowness"
jayhawks would sound great in the guggenheim lobby.
big sandy and body art work well together.
uncle tupelo would pair nicely w/ rural studio.
funny, I almost started a thread about this topic when I stumbled on the video, but on closer consideration, I even wondered if it WAS Farnsworth or a mock-up built solely as a stage for the video.
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