Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying

[bop_radar]

Lo, it is a vid that none of you want to watch! :)

Vid: Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying
Artist: Belle and Sebastian
Source: Nodame Cantabile, Season 1
Warnings: absurdity, cute love hearts and a mongoose
Description: Whimsy. My Sekrit J-Drama OTP vidded to one of my favourite songs. Because I can.
Download: from sendspace or streaming on YouTube or BAM
Notes: Betaed by supacat who also makes up its sole audience. What can I say? This is a case of the song being so perfect for the subject matter I couldn't resist. Yup, it's cheesy, it's shippy, it's soppy, it has gratuitous love-hearts and credits that I'm secretly proud of. It's probably impenetrable to anyone who hasn't seen the show and as far as I know noone on my f'list has. Nodame Cantabile is a Japanese romantic comedy series about classical music students. Chiaki is a superbly attractive over-achieving perfectionist who longs to be a conductor. Nodame is his next door neighbour, a hopelessly messy and food-obsessed piano student, who just happens to be a genius if you can get her to sit still enough to practice. They form a student orchestra with their friends (all wacky in their own way) and the show won me over with its endearingly unapologetic whimsy. And yup, I ship Chiaki/Nodame. *confesses* I should hate Nodame--she's a stereotype I detest, but she somehow manages to be too adorable to dislike. She's besotted with Chiaki, he falls for her against his will... it's a simple story, but I got completely suckered by it. Hence: vid.

Lyrics: Ooh! Get me away from here I'm dying
Play me a song to set me free
Nobody writes them like they used to
So it may as well be me
Here on my own now after hours
Here on my own now on a bus
Think of it this way
You could either be successful or be us
With our winning smiles, and us
With our catchy tunes, and us
Now we're photogenic
You know, we don't stand a chance
Oh, I'll settle down with some old story
About a boy who's just like me
Thought there was love in everything and everyone
You're so naive!
After a while they always get it
They always reach a sorry end
Still it was worth it as I turned the pages solemnly, and then
With a winning smile, the boy
With naivety succeeds
At the final moment, I cried
I always cry at endings

Oh, that wasn't what I meant to say at all
From where I'm sitting, rain
Washing against the lonely tenement
Has set my mind to wander
Into the windows of my lovers
They never know unless I write
"This is no declaration, I just thought I'd let you know goodbye"
Said the hero in the story
"It is mightier than swords
I could kill you sure
But I could only make you cry with these words

Comments

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Adorable!

yes, I've watched and loved that show ♥
But I suck at vid commenting >_>;

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhh! Someone watched it! *clings* THANK YOU.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

hahaha, I have to give you better feedback since I'm the only one here who knows the show XD

I love how it makes a great job going through the mood of offbeat heart-warming and energetic crack of the show. Also great with moments about Chiaki's difficulty with connecting, either on the funny sides (him being crowded with the "Get me away from here I'm dying" lines, when he looks at Nodama practicing the piano through the window. I also really loved the use of the cartoon character parallelism, with the doll - especially when it was falling down. Although I found it confusing in terms of PoV, when I look at the lyrics (I'm the kind of person who doesn't really listen to lyrics when I listen to music).
Also loved the first : "I always cry at endings" with Chiaki's crying while doing music.
Also the whole "be us
With our winning smiles, and us
With our catchy tunes, and us" build up with the S orchestra doing their thing is awesome.
Another build up moments I loved was the "This is no declaration, I just thought I'd let you know goodbye" moments to the taxi catching up Nodame.
And the "And then" on Nodame playing the piano and the crowd applauding.

... I probably sounded incredibly rambly there.

Anyway, there's at least one person on my flist who knows the show, I'll try to send people your way!

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Yay, it captured the mood! \o/ That was my main goal. Anything else is a bonus.

Chiaki IS very bad at connecting, bless him. I'm glad you liked the cartoon character parallelism--I enjoyed putting that section together.

The PoV *is* confusing because I played fast and loose with it... though it's mainly from Chiaki's pov, and I had to switch to Nodame on 'thought there was love in everything and everyone, you're so naive' because it simply isn't true of Chiaki. Despite the lyrics, he sits down reluctantly with the 'story', so I ran with it... there's a disconnect there between the lyrics and the source but I hoped that it would make Chiaki's reluctantness and lack of connection (and the fact he views Nodame as naive) more obvious. *wanks about own vid*

with the S orchestra doing their thing
That bit was my favourite thing to put together! They are too cute.

Thank you for rambling! I get a better sense of how it connected with you and it's heartening to know the mood worked.