Tír na nÓg

Something I have been enjoying again lately:

Celtic Woman - Tír na nÓg (feat Oonagh) [Official Music Video]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mabaKE-xNUo[/youtube]

Some info on the myth:

It fills me with cheer.

While I am rolling around in the mess that this world has become, I came across this video while browsing for music - YouTube is so weird.

The Ugly Truth about Modern Life!

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFR0Mk9KDZ4[/youtube]

I give this video a score of 5.5 out of 10. The underlying message is what tips it in favor of a slightly good video.

Can you identify the flaws in this video?

I liked that song - until I watched the video.

I see so much political pretentiousness that I have a negative reflex against anything that signals pretentiousness. And although the girls are pretty - female pretentiousness even in music videos is even more disheartening to me. The innocence gets lost. I prefer the image my mind formed before I saw them acting it out. :smiley:

I give that video 8 of 10. I very seriously agree with the message but no real solution was suggested - just “stop it” - like that is going to happen.

What did you see as “flaws”?

It is only entertainment for me obsrvr524. It is like watching the clouds roll by or trees blowing around in the wind.

Interesting. I try not to get too distracted with entertainment that is used to promote political agendas - in one way I am glad I did not detect this pretentiousness - this has more to do with me not spending a lot of time with the video content in general I guess. The real danger I see with what you are saying lays in the “subconscious” as people refer to it but this is a separate discussion.

I will stick with 5.5. Let’s start with the whole idea of ["just “stop it”] as you mentioned - that is the most obvious flaw. It is not like I counted a million flaws - the second flaw for me is the assumption the narrator makes that it is OK in the first place for anyone to follow what he is saying word for word - while I approve of the idea(that which speaks loudest in the video) what reason do I have to follow ["just “stop it”] the way he presents it. The video was entertaining to me because as I listened along I found no less than five flaws - I enjoy deconstructing things(analyze (a text or a linguistic or conceptual system) by deconstruction, typically in order to expose its hidden internal assumptions and contradictions and subvert its apparent significance or unity.). I like to deconstruct things that I say because we can learn some things from ourselves too.

“liked that song - until I watched the video”

That’s just the formulaic nature of the music video industry anyway and not something those chicks are blamed 4. They’re just doing what they’re told in the video to make it sexy and marketable for whoever is producing it.

If u keep all this in mind, the fact that it’s all phoney garbage devoid of any authentic culture or meaning, seems not so offensive. U just think of it as a silly symptom of what commercialism has done to music.

And that they go along with it - for the money. I value artistry higher than money.

I don’t hate them - or really even blame them. I just lose my taste for them.

Creative skill is not an easy thing to find in modern entertainment. Things are over-produced. A lot to sift through…

Something I did was this: I quickly looked up the term “Tír na nÓg” because it was not obvious what they were singing about. This was prompted by them being called Celtic Woman.

Backtracking slightly: Lack of artistry and over-producing are not the only problems with modern entertainment…

EDIT: Oh yes I also forgot to mention that I did not rethink my whole life after watching the second video - I was too busy in post-deconstruction, hahaha, and thinking that “The Ugly Truth about Modern Life!” as it is termed in the title is far more sinister(that is as Google puts it, my mind was floating off with: giving the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen) or I should say insidious - maybe another flaw or two that the narrator did not see coming. His good intent was there but it became lost in the sea of words he presented and the contradictions reflective of the title, visual cues, and his audience against his spoken words. Anyway - there was a little more to it that I will leave out but some of what I am leaving out > comes down to > individual psychology. YouTube is not the best place to change the world despite any given narrator’s self-satisfaction in thinking that they have done something hugely significant for the world - I also get the feeling that they are only appealing to one particular type of audience through using the viewers own emotional states to further monetize their video much the same as televangelism has been guilty of. I will post a link to an interesting video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfVMRgK6eiA - this guy adds another dimension to “these days” - twelve minutes(and 53 seconds) worth…