Re: herbie hancok - rock it

From: Elson Trinidad (elson@westworld.com)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2000 - 06:21:30 MET

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    At 10:43 PM 2/7/00 -0400, Eighth Dimension wrote:
     
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    >Excuse me if someone already said this , but the reason Herbie
    >Hancock + co. used robot-type figures instead of humans in the
    >'Rockit" video was because they were afraid to put African-Americans
    >in the video ... they knew it wouldn't get MTV play.

    What? You're probably mistaken. You're not totally wrong, but from what I
    heard it wasn't that case, but that people thought the video got played on
    MTV *because* there weren't black people in the video, save for short fuzzy
    glimpses of Hancock in a video monitor playing his vocoder and keyboard.
    But from the standpoint of making the video, there wasn't any agenda behind
    it really - robots were used to present some "techno" element. The robots
    had mannequin bodies, which represented fashion/image obsession.

    BTW, it was directed by two white, British dudes - Godley and Creme (of
    10cc fame). G&C directed some of the greatest videos of the '80s. Lol
    Creme is currently a member of the Art of Noise...

    Elson

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