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Justice - Stress and White Williams - New Violence Music Vids
3 May 2008, Allan @ 4:33 pm

I don’t normally like posting music videos, I guess it’s great as “filler” content but the fact remains is that almost any blogger can post a video…so I have to ask myself what I’m doing that is original.

I’m a big fan of these two music videos and while I normally hate music videos and would very much rather listen to the song itself…these two videos do have something to offer as it’s not the band simply playing the song.

The first music video is Justice’s Stress which involves a camera and a sound guy following youth gang in jackets with Justice’s album cover or the Cross (a controversial figure). They walk around the streets of France on a violent tear doing as many as illegal crimes from assault, sexual assault, aggravated assault, vandalism to grand theft auto. The action is set perfectly to the music and there’s more to this video that meets the eye. This is definitely a controversial music video with many hating it and citing racism and being offended due to the graphic violence. However, I must say there are a few things this video captures perfectly around the “youth gang culture”. First off, they are just putting on a show trying to be cool by smoking, walking the walk and overall doing anything that will piss someone off usually without reason. A lot of the time you see people not reacting at all and just standing there and taking it where once inawhile you find an individually standing up to challenge the gang to only be outnumbered and beat up. You see a lot of people standing around doing nothing and watching while this happens (this is EXACTLY what happens in real life…people just watch these people do a number of asshole things). I really like this video not because of my experience with “youth gangs” in Jane and Finch of Toronto but a lot of children do want to just do things without a purpose and painting them in a poor light seems like the exact purpose of the video. The ending where the youths turn on the camera man and the sound guy may be what they deserve as gangs are glorified these days.

A great great video for one of my favorite singles off Cross. In the end its just violence but there’s much more that meets the eye and I’m sure it would be a hot topic if this was a more “mainstream” artist.

Download: Stress by Justice

Speaking of violence. White William’s New Violence is more of a less controversial nature and just rounds up random clips of guns and other various things. It’s supposed to a shot at the USA for their fascination with guns but I just like looking at the random clips. Props for including my man Steven Segal (not really my man but I do like him for his horrible acting). Why no Arnold though?

Download: New Violence by White Williams

3 Comments for “Justice - Stress and White Williams - New Violence Music Vids”

1. Chris — May 6, 2008 @ 5:47 am
   

   What song is coming in at the end of the justice track?
   

2. Allan — May 6, 2008 @ 11:57 pm
   

   I have no idea what you’re referring to.

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