Lips to the Floor is an interesting music video by UK grime artist Dubbledge, the video and song its self was an attack on “Waste” Grime MC’s (according to Dubbledge himself.)The video is made up by a collage of well known YouTube accidents and fights. The video may be a huge breach of Copyright however I believe it is a great video. The music video it's self is hard to analyse in terms of camera angles and mies en scene, from people falling of stages to a man being chased by a lion this video has it all.
It’s not just the humorous clips that make this video enjoyable to watch I think the animated words that appear on the screen as dramatic subtitles emphasizing the lyrics in the video make it more than just a collage of simple humor. The video which was first uploaded to YouTube on the 26th of December 2006 I believe may have inspired some other collage videos.
In most cases collage videos go horribly wrong, it is easy to create a “padded out” idea of what someone believes is funny which in most cases the extreme opposite of the general public is. On the other hand a good example of a collage video that received public and online praise was Weezer’s Pork and Beans. Pork and Beans was realized on the 24th of April 2008, that’s more than 2 years after Lips to the floor. Also considering some of the clips used in Pork and Beans featured in Lips to the Floor two years earlier, the American rock band Weezer must have enjoyed Lips to the Floor enough to make their own version.
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