Since I can’t just post the new What You Want single from Evanescence – tres gauche – consider this your prompt for discussing the semiotic drift in representations of vaguely apocolyptic city-scapes in genre-crossing pop-goth music videos, with the two examples being taken from about a decade apart.
There’s a certain crispness in the 2011 video that’s lacking in the 2003 Bring Me To Life artifact, which might be reflective of how the late modern urbanization of the 1990s – which originally held out the possibility of destabilizing hegemonic concentrations of power – has now settled down into a more or less deterministic field. Alternatively it could be that they didn’t spend a lot of money on the 2003 video so the resolution kind of sucked.
I’ve also added the acoustic cover of Heart Shaped Box that the band did on Pittsburgh’s WXDX. It later showed up as the B-Side of the Going Under single, and it’s quite the performance.
