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thenewgreen  ·  4528 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The XX
Very emo, pensively chewing on the sleeve of your hoody ;)

I like the sparseness of the song though and the use of the female/male vocal dichotomy.

I liked it. It's charming.





scarp  ·  4528 days ago  ·  link  ·  
This will sound shallow, but I liked The XX a lot more before I knew what their "image" was. I stumbled upon their album by accident back "before it was cool" and thought it was pretty good, especially "Crystalised." But when I looked up the video it was quite jarring. Somehow it diminished my enjoyment of the song. Silly but true.
thenewgreen  ·  4527 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I don't think it sounds shallow. A video is an art form that the artist presumably has a hand in guiding. If this is their visual representation of what their music means to them it ought to have an impact on you. Not shallow at all.