New Blur Music Video Is an Awesome Tribute to Platformer Games
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Aside from that “Woo-hoo!” song that was once used in every TV spot for every action movie ever, I’m not usually much into Blur, but even if you find their stuff annoying a lot of the time, this particular video will warm your heart. Maybe by the end it’ll even get you to like the song – a backdoor trick from the golden age of music videos that most artists have forgotten about today.
Mostly inspired by Mario and Sonic style games, the video also includes easter-egg tributes to Pong and Pinball, and even a Big Man Japan-style finale in which all the bosses come into live action as grown men in kaiju costumes.
Woo-hoo, indeed.
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