Sep
6
Okay so my friend Mark sent me the song “The Magic Position” by Patrick Wolf a while ago. I’m not sure if I ever listened to it, or just glanced over it, but it came on my iPod the other day and I was immediately hooked. I proceeded to play it over and over again for the entire day.
When I got home that night I looked up the video on YouTube and was immediately horrified by what I saw. It was nothing like the glorious video I envisioned in my head, full of fun dancing reminiscent of those Old Navy commercials from the late 90’s. Instead I got this pretentious piece of poop filled with emo juice and bad idea pants (term borrowed from Meg), which just smacks of cooler-than-you hipster smugness. But the song is still awesome so here you go:
Oh, and for the record, Patrick prefers not to discuss his sexuality and states that “I don’t like to belong to any genre… sexually and romantically, I want to be free always.” Riiiiiiight. I want to see him have sex — stone sober — with a woman. Not gonna happen.
September 6th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Good song. NIGHTMARE video.
September 7th, 2008 at 1:54 am
I’ve loved this song since months ago and now I wished I had never seen the video. For such a glorious song with so much potential, it looks like it was made with $20.
September 7th, 2008 at 2:02 am
I blame the terrorists.
September 7th, 2008 at 6:03 am
It is a cool song. The video is not what I would have envisioned. It makes me think of an Emo Ronald McDonald for some reason, must be the hair.
Having been involved in a few music video productions I can say that this video, despite its stylistic issues, must have cost quite a bit to make.
September 7th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Wow. Good song, I’ll give it that. But really, anyone who wears satin ribbon for a belt and those socks with capris (those were not man-pris, those were straight up girl capris) is not going to be found in a woman’s bed anytime soon. I sometimes wonder who comes up with these ideas.
September 7th, 2008 at 9:22 am
Are you sure YOU are sober? Cause asking to see Patrick Wolfe having sex with a woman is just not natural.
September 7th, 2008 at 9:46 am
I don’t like his voice, but I do like the song otherwise.
I love the strings. Mmmm strings.
And btw, he clearly states his sexuality at 1:33.
September 7th, 2008 at 10:33 am
I listened to the song before without watching the video. It’s a catchy little number isn’t it? However, that one bad video. Bad choreography, bad costuming and what’s with the hair color?
As for his sexuality, I couldn’t care less. It really annoys me that musicians and actors play this game (whether by choice or contract). I think record companies are completely out of touch if they think that people aren’t going to buy records if they know if someone is gay. No, people won’t by records if the music sucks. Perhaps I am being naive.
With that said, if it is his choice to make that statement, then all the power to him. He doesn’t have to explain anything to anyone.
As a final note, I’m pretty sure the magic position can be found in the Karma Sutra, but I think it may require some stretching.
September 7th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Wow, the 80’s called and want their video back.
Honestly, not in love with the song.
September 7th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
The magic position in the Kama Sutra….hee hee hee. Stretching. . . hee hee hee. Sex with a woman. . . hee hee hee.
September 7th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Well, I prefer to think of him less as secretive about his sexuality than someone who fights for all of boys’ rights to be girly:
“I don’t like gay ghettos or straight ghettos. I like it when an artist isn’t about their sexuality, but their music first,” he says. “I’m the only person who knows me, so I’m never going to fit in any of the boxes in the same way that I’m never going to say I make a particular type of music – I’m not a pop musician, I’m not a folk or a rock musician, I’m Patrick.”
In Attitude, he also talks about suing his high school about their their views on gay people. “They had said that they couldn’t help me with my bullying because I was of an ‘effeminate disposition,’” he said. “So I took them to the European Court of Justice when I was 15, won, and bought a piano with the money I was awarded.”
(from arjanwrites)
(and yes, I’m back. I recently had to switch domiciles, and Mathilde was a bit winded from all the aquarium-wheeling that entailed. Not to mention all those Patrick Wolf CDs in little wheeled backpacks she had to wrangle!)
September 8th, 2008 at 7:57 am
Oh God! I never saw the video before, that was painful.