At 10:43 PM 2/7/00 -0400, Eighth Dimension wrote:
>
>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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