Apr 29, 2025 · 51 min · 10 segments
Indie rock pioneers Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are celebrating 20 years with a special reissue. But what's the real story behind their unconventional rise to fame? In this episode of LaunchLeft, host…
Alec OunsworthGuest
Rain PhoenixHostTJGuest
so speaking of just we were talking about music and I find music video to be an artistic component of a good song and how it connects to an audience and I think MTV was still a little bit more of something in the early aughts.
Again, it was the sort of like stubborn naivety of being like, oh, you know, I think the audience, again, and picturing the kid with the headphones, it was like, they should be able to create the visuals in their head.
But I was talking to my friend yesterday, who's a music video director, because we're going to do something 20 years after the fact.
It's like you're collaborating with somebody whose artistic vision you appreciate.
If somebody had explained it to me that way, I would have been like, oh, yeah, right.
so speaking of just we were talking about music and I find music video to be an artistic component of a good song and how it connects to an audience and I think MTV was still a little bit more of something in the early aughts.
Again, it was the sort of like stubborn naivety of being like, oh, you know, I think the audience, again, and picturing the kid with the headphones, it was like, they should be able to create the visuals in their head.
But I was talking to my friend yesterday, who's a music video director, because we're going to do something 20 years after the fact.
It's like you're collaborating with somebody whose artistic vision you appreciate.
If somebody had explained it to me that way, I would have been like, oh, yeah, right.
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