I adore the inventive, fresh-retro aesthetic and artistic messages this video and song harbor so entirely. The proof is in the pudding. And by pudding, I obviously, totally meant the fact that I over-analyze ev’ry image in it. This is made all the more hilarious by noting a very minute sum even give the video a second thought. They peg it down to its outer shell of surrealism and cute, catchy quirkiness. Here’s where I’d blow up verbally, but it’s time for bedtime time. So, to compensate, here be’ a time I went on a raging rant-page about it while B somehow listened to it.
Skye
Okay– basically, I thought that the miners represented the people in the world that look for something amazing in all the wrong places– trying hard to find success or happiness where it cannot be found. For such a long time, they were stuck DIRECTLY under “Paradise”, as the song says.
B
Oooh, I see what you’re saying!
Skye
So– when they get there, there’s a judge panel. The panel represents the pivotal moments in one’s life in which one has to show exactly what you’re made of or go back into the slum from whence you came. To live the dream or get buried in the avalanche of wasted time by not trying.
B
Aaahh!
Skye
– So– the first miner, of course, ditches the hat and comes right up and gets into the beat of life without regret– shows up the judges and is, thusly, accepted to stay– and finds his true love in the process, who likes him for what’s within him– his dance.
– The second miner stays on the sidelines the whole time and plays it safe– and when the other dancer leaves his side to go up and dance, he stays and misses his chance to show the panel.
– And to dance with her, for that matter.
Then by the time he gets up to play the tambourine with the troupe, it’s too late– and thusly, is sent back to the miner-49er land beneath.
B
Aaahh… Ya know, that makes a lot of sense now.
Skye
Also, I may be misinterpreting this, but I think Arthur (the first miner)’s friend who gets forced back in the caverns– I think his caged bird that he kept in the mines and still has with at the end represents the talent he refused to show– and how he lived the rest of his life in the exact same way.
B
Ooh, good idea…
Skye
I look too deeply into things, but hey, it’s how my mind works naturally.
B
LAWL, I do too sometimes!
Skye
We funny people– we think funny.
That we does, funny person. That we does!
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